Everyman's Library Classics Series: The Wings of the Dove : Introduction by Grey Gowrie (Hardcover)

from stuart10er

To give this book justice, which is deserves, it would require a review as long the novel - which I have no intention of doing. I'll just say that I found the characters to be unsympathetic, unrealistic in the sense that they said nothing positive or instructive about the human experience. In a w...

from TheBentley

Strunk and White wrote The Elements of Style in 1918, and I think it's entirely possible that they meant the entire book as a critique of Henry James. If you must read James, opt for one of the novellas--"Turn of the Screw" or "Daisy Miller," for instance--where James proves that he was not entir...

from varielle

Henry James is a god awful, over-rated writer. Why use one word when fifty meandering ones will do? Or rather not do. It takes so long to get to the point of this bit of moral social tedium that you forget where it was supposed to be going. Young broke couple engineer a romance with dying heiress...

from amerynth

I think Henry James has some interesting ideas in terms of plot but man alive he is so darned wordy and "The Wings of the Dove" is no exception. In this novel, Kate Croy needs money and the man she wants to marry doesn't have any. She intrigues to get some by getting her fiancee Merton Densher to...

from Salmondaze

I had entered this dense book with what I think to be valid complaints. James expends an incredible amount of words to communicate so little, he falls into the trap of trying to shape the reader's impression of his characters (a charge brought an influence of his, George Eliot), he draws conclusi...