{"product_id":"the-ivory-tower-isbn-9781590170786","title":"The Ivory Tower","description":"In 1914, Henry James began work on a major novel about the immense new fortunes of America’s Gilded Age. After an absence of more than twenty years, James had returned for a visit to his native country; what he found there filled him with profound dismay. In \u003ci\u003eThe Ivory Tower\u003c\/i\u003e, his last book, the characteristic pattern underlying so much of his fiction—in which American “innocence” is transformed by its encounter with European “experience”—receives a new twist: raised abroad, the hero comes home to America to confront, as James puts it, “the black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames died in 1916 with the first three books of \u003ci\u003eThe Ivory Tower \u003c\/i\u003ecompleted. He also left behind a “treatment,” in which he charted the further progress of his story. This fascinating scenario, one of only two to survive among James’s papers, is also published here together with a striking critical essay by Ezra Pound.\"Late, piercing, morally incisive look at the unscrupulous rich.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eThe Ivory Tower\u003c\/i\u003e, James was still experimenting with the impressions of his American tour….There is a vivid sense conveyed of the bright sea and summer air and the great, crazy, overdecorated “villas,” but the keenest impression is of the various people that the hero meets….The effect is as remarkable as anything that James ever achieved.\" —Louis Auchincloss\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"James’s last novel…denounced, with all the delicacy and subtlety of his style, the world he had seen, at Biltmore, at Lenox, in the great houses of New York and Newport. He had reclaimed his American heritage, but he seems to have felt it wasn’t worth reclaiming. “You seem all here so hideously rich,” says his hero. [\u003ci\u003eThe Ivory Tower\u003c\/i\u003e is] a dense and powerfully conceived work.\" —Leon EdelHenry James (1843–1916), the younger brother of the psychologist William James and one of the greatest of American writers, was born in New York but lived for most of his life in England. Among the best known of his many stories and novels are \u003ci\u003eThe Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Wings of the Dove\u003c\/i\u003e. In addition to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Stories of Henry James\u003c\/i\u003e, New York Review Classics has published several long-unavailable James novels: \u003ci\u003eThe Other House, The Outcry,\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e The Ivory Tower\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlan Hollinghurst was born in 1954 in Gloucestershire, England, and attended Magdalen College, Oxford. He is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThe Swimming-Pool Library, The Folding Star \u003c\/i\u003e(shortlisted for the Booker Prize), \u003ci\u003eThe Spell\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Line of Beauty,\u003c\/i\u003e as well as of a translation of the play \u003ci\u003eBajazet\u003c\/i\u003e by Racine. A former staff member at \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, Hollinghurst is a frequent contributor to that and other publications, including\u003ci\u003e The Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e. Hollinghurst’s fourth novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Line of Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Man Booker Prize in 2004. He lives in London.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303904596197,"sku":"NP9781590170786","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590170786.jpg?v=1767739991","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-ivory-tower-isbn-9781590170786","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}