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Current format, Book, 2004, , No Longer Available. Offered in 0 more formatsFramed by a dramatic and moving account of Henry JamesÂs last illness, Author, Authorbegins in the early 1880s, describing JamesÂs friendship with the genial Punchartist, George Du Maurier, and his intimate but problematic relationship with fellow American novelist Constance Fenimore Woolson. At the end of the decade Henry, worried by the failure of his books to sell, resolves to achieve fame and fortune as a playwright while Du Maurier diversifies into writing novels. The consequences that ensue mingle comedy, irony, pathos, and suspense. As Du MaurierÂs novel Trilbybecomes the bestseller of the century, Henry anxiously awaits the opening night of his make-or-break play, Guy Domville. This event, on January 5, 1895, and its complex sequel form the climax to LodgeÂs absorbing novel.Thronged with vividly drawn characters, some of them with famous names, Author, Authorpresents a fascinating panorama of literary and theatrical life in late Victorian England. But at its heart is a portrait, rendered with remarkable empathy, of a writer who never achieved popular success in his lifetime or resolved his sexual identity, yet wrote some of the greatest novels about love in the English language.
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