{"product_id":"the-other-house-isbn-9780940322325","title":"The Other House","description":"This terse and startling novel, written just before \u003ci\u003eThe Spoils of Poynton\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhat Maisie Knew\u003c\/i\u003e,is the story of a struggle for possession—and of its devastating consequences. Three women seek to secure the affections of one man, while he, in turn, tries to satisfy them all. But in the middle of this contest of wills stands his unwitting and vulnerable young daughter. The savage conclusion of \u003ci\u003eThe Other House\u003c\/i\u003e makes it one of the most disturbing and memorable of Henry James's depictions of the uncontrollable passions that lie beneath the polished veneer of civilized life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOh blest \u003ci\u003eOther House\u003c\/i\u003e, which gives me thus at every step a precedent, a divine little light to walk by... —Henry James\u003ci\u003e\"The Other House\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a brutal crime, and its violence is not duplicated in any of Henry James’s other works…[It] takes place in broad British daylight, and the passions which explode in it with such force are acted out on disciplined lawns between stately British houses, deriving their well—founded security from a banking fortune. \u003ci\u003eThe Other House\u003c\/i\u003e is intensely British in its motives and emotions; and its intensity derives precisely from the fact that when the calm is broken, and the conflict…is engaged the contrast is as of a violent rush of air into a place of quiet…\" —Leon Edel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The Other House\u003c\/i\u003e contains some of the most harrowing, compressed, and ambiguous scenes James ever wrote.\" —\u003ci\u003eThreepenny Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Played out on the tidy lawns between two aristocratic houses, the staid Eastmead and the boisterous Bounds, a desperately tangled love-scrimmage spirals into a crime of unspeakable brutality, with a deeply unsettling climax. Readers left puzzled by the murky pychosexual terror of James’s \u003ci\u003eThe Turn of The Screw\u003c\/i\u003e should give this passionate melodrama a try.\" —\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003eHenry 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\u003eThe Ivory Tower\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLouis Begley is a novelist and retired lawyer. He has written eight novels, including \u003ci\u003eWartime Lies, About Schmidt\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003eMatters of Honor\u003c\/i\u003e, which was published in 2007. He is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres of France and served as the president of PEN American Center from 1993 to 1995. He lives in New York with his wife, Anka Muhlstein, an historian of France.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304390643941,"sku":"NP9780940322325","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780940322325.jpg?v=1767740828","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-other-house-isbn-9780940322325","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}