Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
The Master, Paperback / softback Book

The Master Paperback / softback

Part of the Picador Classic series

Paperback / softback

Item not Available

Description

In January 1895 Henry James anticipates the opening of his first play, Guy Domville, in London.

The production fails, and he returns, chastened and humiliated, to his writing desk.

The result is a string of masterpieces, but they are produced at a high personal cost. In The Master Colm Toibin captures the exquisite anguish of a man who circulated in the grand parlours and palazzos of Europe, who was astonishingly vibrant and alive in his art, and yet whose attempts at intimacy inevitably failed him and those he tried to love.

It is a powerful account of the hazards of putting the life of the mind before affairs of the heart.

Information

Other Formats

Save 14%

£8.99

£7.69

Item not Available
Item not Available
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information

Also in the Picador Classic series  |  View all

The Woman Warrior

£10.99

£9.99

Add to Basket

The Lovely Bones

£9.99

£9.65

Add to Basket

The Border Trilogy

£18.99

£17.49

Add to Basket

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

£10.99

£10.89

Add to Basket