by Henry James · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788467068801
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«La lección del maestro» is the short novel by Henry James, published by Austral in paperback (128 pages, in Spanish).
A young writer with a promising career befriends a celebrated yet declining author who reveals to him the price of devoting one's life to art. Between them stands a woman both admire, and their decisions pit fame against artistic ambition. Critics consider it one of Henry James's finest short novels.
Work originally published in 1888 as «The Lesson of the Master»; translation by Eugenia Vázquez Nacarino. Edition from the Austral Esenciales collection.
For readers of nineteenth-century American narrative classics who appreciate psychological portraits and short stories.
Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of theologian Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
