The Outcry

By Henry James

Book Overview

Henry James wrote a book titled The Outcry in 1911. It was once intended to be a play. His final work, The Outcry, was finished just before he passed away in 1916. The plot centers on affluent... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590170008
• ISBN13: 9781590170007
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: New York Review of Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Slight but satisfying example of late James

For those who admire the style of the later Henry James, and enjoyed the final three "big" novels - The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove and the Golden Bowl - this much shorter and lighter novel - almost a short story by James' standards - will be a very pleasant diversion.Obviously adapted from his play without much attempt to disguise this fact, the novel is driven by the characters' sharp and often witty dialogue. The characters are well drawn, and the story is unusually straightforward for James. While there remain the usual elliptical phrases and circumlocutions we've come to expect in his later novels, these have been toned down in the interests of dramatic momentum and the book is actually an easy read. While it is certainly not one of the great James novels, it is nevertheless recommended to those who enjoy reading this author.