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Roderick Hudson

Henry James

Editorial: Classica Libris

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Sinopsis

This is Henry James’ first full-length novel.Roderick Hudson, egotistical, beautiful and an exceptionally gifted sculptor, but poor, is taken from New England to Rome by Rowland Mallet, a rich man of fine appreciative sensibilities, who intends to give Roderick the scope to develop his genius. Together they seem like twins or lovers, opposing halves of what should have been an ideal whole. Subtext: blazing unspoken sexuality.
Disponible desde: 26/11/2018.

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