The Ivory Tower (Classic Reprint), by Henry James
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The Ivory Tower (Classic Reprint), by Henry James
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Excerpt from The Ivory TowerThe Ivory Tower, one of the two novels which Henry James left unfinished at his death, was designed to consist of ten books. Three only of these were written, with one chapter of the fourth, and except for the correction of a few obvious slips the fragment is here printed in full and without alteration. It was composed during the summer of 1914. The novel seems to have grown out of another which had been planned by Henry James in the winter of 1909-10. Of this the opening scenes had been sketched and a few pages written when it was interrupted by illness. On taking it up again, four years later, Henry James almost entirely recast his original scheme, retaining certain of the characters (notably the Bradham couple,) but otherwise giving an altogether fresh setting to the central motive. The new novel had reached the point where it breaks off by the beginning of August 1914. With the outbreak of war Henry James found he could no longer work upon a fiction supposed to represent contemporary or recent life. The completed chapters - which he had dictated to his secretary, in accordance with his regular habit for many years past - were revised and laid aside, not again to be resumed.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Ivory Tower (Classic Reprint), by Henry James- Published on: 2015-09-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .76" w x 5.98" l, 1.08 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 368 pages
Review "Late, piercing, morally incisive look at the unscrupulous rich." —The Guardian"In The Ivory Tower, James was still experimenting with the impressions of his American tour….There is a vivid sense conveyed of the bright sea and summer air and the great, crazy, overdecorated “villas,” but the keenest impression is of the various people that the hero meets….The effect is as remarkable as anything that James ever achieved." —Louis Auchincloss"James’s last novel…denounced, with all the delicacy and subtlety of his style, the world he had seen, at Biltmore, at Lenox, in the great houses of New York and Newport. He had reclaimed his American heritage, but he seems to have felt it wasn’t worth reclaiming. “You seem all here so hideously rich,” says his hero. [The Ivory Tower is] a dense and powerfully conceived work." —Leon Edel
About the Author Henry James was an American author, essayist, and critic known for his contributions to both literary criticism and the realist movement, which focused on presenting everyday life as it actually was. In creating realistic portrayals of life and society, James often included elements of social and political commentary in his works, notably his depiction of the feminist movement in The Bostonians, and the exploration of culture clash between America and Europe in Daisy Miller. James s best known works also include The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, and the novella The Turn of the Screw. American by birth, James spent much of his time in England and eventually moved to London. He became a British subject just before his death in 1916.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. James' start on a novel about the effects of the capitalist system on a sensitive person, By T. M. Teale Set in a fabulously wealthy neighborhood in Newport, Rhode Island--in August of, say, 1911--the novel opens with Rosanna Gaw walking from her house to another nearby, where the wealthy Frank Betterman lies dying. Both Mr. Betterman and Rosanna are awaiting the arrival from Europe of the dying man's nephew, Graham Fielder, "Gray" to his intimates. As Rosanna anticipates Gray's arrival, it is intimated that Gray will inherit a colossal sum of money. All of Henry James' novels are about the effects of money--or the lack of it--on people, however, The Ivory Tower, barely half-finished, would have given us more: a long reflection on the getting and keeping and accumulating of money at the expense of others. It would seem that James intended a novel--told largely through Gray Fielder--about the vulgarity of capitalist accumulation, but he left it unfinished at his death in 1916. And what a paradox! The world of drawing room manners that he analyzed would come crashing down before World War I was over. (Reprinted at the end of the book is an indispensable essay on James' craft of writing by none other than the poet Ezra Pound.)Somewhere in his career, James remarked that he wanted to be a person on whom "nothing is lost," a person so perceptive that the subtlest movement of others would not pass him by, and here, Gray Fielder seems to be James' alter ego, the man on whom nothing is lost. Fielder is the kind of character James meant in his Preface to The Princess Casamassima: "the person capable of feeling in the given case more than another of what is to be felt for it [the subject of the novel], and so serving in the highest degree to record it dramatically ... is the only sort of person on whom we can count not to betray ... the value and beauty of the thing" (p. 67 in The Art of the Novel). Fielder has inherited such a huge sum of money that he has much to feel about it; he almost feels immoral. And, of course, some experienced money-maker will surely enter the novel to take the money off Gray's hands. Here--I must say--that James' prose is so densely-packed (some would say 'overwritten') that I lost track of the action (what little there was). Page after page is written from inside the mind of Fielder that there seems to be nothing left "to be felt for it."Had he lived, I think Henry James would have realized that his prose was too fine for his purpose: a different kind of writer would be needed to show that wealthy people appear "civilized" only because someone else does the vulgar labor, and that, indeed, a lot of swindling goes on behind the most genteel.
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