The Spoils of Poynton

The Spoils of Poynton

by Henry James
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Publication Date: 21/06/2020

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"The Spoils of Poynton" is a short novel by Henry James first published as a serial titled The Old Things in The Atlantic Monthly in 1896. Retitled "The Spoils of Poynton", it was published as a book in 1897.


Poynton Park is the home of old Mrs. Gereth, an antique collector with impeccable taste who has filled her lodgings with splendid art objects and furniture. The possessive Mrs. Gereth wants her weak-willed son to marry a pleasant young woman who shares her refined tastes. Instead he becomes engaged to a vulgar, greedy woman, and the treasures of Poynton become the prize over which mother and fiancée battle. In the end Poynton and its spoils, which have destroyed all of the novel’s relationships...

ISBN:
9788835852834
9788835852834
Category:
Classic fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
21-06-2020
Language:
English
Publisher:
E-BOOKARAMA
Henry James

Henry James was born in New York in 1843 and was educated in Europe and America. He left Harvard Law School in 1863, after a year's attendance, to concentrate on writing, and from 1869 he began to make prolonged visits to Europe, eventually settling in England in 1876.

His literary output was prodigious and of the highest quality: more than ten outstanding novels, including The Portrait of a Lady and The American; countless novellas and short stories; as well as innumerable essays, letters, and other pieces of critical prose. Known by contemporary fellow novelists as 'the Master', James died in Kensington, London, in 1916.

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