Roderick Hudson

By James, Henry

Book Id: WPLBN0002951437
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File Size: 384.82 MB
Reproduction Date: 2011

Title:	Roderick Hudson
Author:	James, Henry
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Language:	English
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Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Roderick Hudson
Historic Publication Date:	1875
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago James, B. H. (1875). Roderick Hudson. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Published as a serial in 1875, Roderick Hudson is James's first important novel. The theme of Americans in Europe, so important in much of James's work, is already central to the story. Hudson is a young law student in Northampton, Massachusetts, who shows such surprising ability as a sculptor that the rich Rowland Mallett, visiting a cousin in Northampton, decides to stake him to several years of study in Rome, then a center of expatriate American society. The story has to do not only with Roderick's growth as an artist and the problems it brings, but also as a man susceptible to his new environment, and indeed his occasional rivalries with his American friend and patron. Interestingly enough, at least two of the book's characters made sufficient impression on James that he brought them back in other books: the French-Italian-Yankee sculptor, Gloriani, who appears later in The American, and Christina Light, the American who becomes the subject of Princess Casamassima, one of James's later (and much longer) novels. (Introduction by Nicholas Clifford)

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