Sir Dominick Ferrand

By James, Henry

Book Id: WPLBN0002952069
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File Size: 67.57 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Sir Dominick Ferrand
Author:	James, Henry
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Sir Dominick Ferrand
Historic Publication Date:	1893
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago James, B. H. (1893). Sir Dominick Ferrand. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Levity is not a word often applied to Henry James, but this story has about it an attractively lighthearted quality. It tells of Peter Baron, a poor, young struggling writer of adequate, if not transcendent, talent, who lives in a dreary London boarding house inhabited also by a mysteriously clairvoyant and beautiful young widow, with her small boy. When Baron buys himself a second-hand writing desk to stimulate the creative juices, he finds carefully hidden within it a cache of letters that appear to compromise a recently deceased statesman. The discovery and his struggle to handle the questions they pose ultimately change his life. Along the way he also discovers, as a fringe benefit, a talent for what Americans (though probably not Jamesians) call Tin Pan Alley. (Summary by Nicholas Clifford)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Fiction