James, Henry
Roderick Hudson
that traces the development of the title character, a sculptor. 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.
- Author(s)
- James, Henry
- Publisher
- Saga Egmont
- Publication year
- 2017
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Series
- Svenska Ljud Classica
- Page amount
- 397 pages
- Category
- Novels
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9789176393161