[COMPLETE]The Lesson of the Master, by Henry James - arb

[clifford]

The Lesson of the Master by Henry James (1843 - 1916) .

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A promising young writer meets an older man whose works have inspired him, as well as a highly intelligent and attractive young woman, at a gathering in a country house. Anxious to learn all he can from the older writer, the young man seeks his views about not only about art, but also the way in which a serious artist should live. By the end of the work, he has indeed learned his lessons, albeit not quite those that he was expecting. It's not giving anything away to say that this work bears some resemblance to James's later novel, The Ambassadors, which in many ways engages the same questions. (Summary by Nicholas Clifford)

• Target completion date: 2013-May-01
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  • Original publication date (if known): 1888
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[clifford]

Anne -- Chap. I is now up in the MW. Am I waiting for a PL? Or are you taking on the job again? If so, thanks and double thanks.

Best, Nick

[annise]

I've put myself in as DPL and Chapter 1 is PL OK

Anne

[clifford]

Anne --

that's very good of you; many thanks once again. Chapter II is now up.

Best, Nick

[clifford]

And, I forgot to add, Happy Easter. I suppose for you it's the beginning of of autumn setting in; here, we're still waiting for a bit of spring warmth.

Best, Nick

[clifford]

Chapter III is now up.

Nick

[annise]

II and II Pl Ok
We don't have as beautiful autumns as colder climes - and of course our natives do not lose their leaves but there are still enough garden exotics to makes things colourful and the coler weather is nice after some very warm weeks

Anne

[clifford]

Chapters iv and v are now up. I'm also going to edit and expand my description of the book soon.

Best, Nick

[clifford]

Anne --

Chapter VI of the Lesson of the Master is now up, and I've also written a new description of the work. Sol assuming that you find no mistakes (or don't like my description), the project is done.

Best, Nick

[annise]

4 is PL OK - I've been real lifing (?lifeing) each day this week , but should be able to catch up with the PLing this weekend

Anne

[annise]

5 and 6 are PL OK . Great reading, I can't help being somewhat cynical about the "Master's" motives though .

Off to cataloguing -

Anne

[annise]

All done , thanks Nick
Have you choosen something to read next yet ? If you want me to MC it just put -arb in the heading when you post

This project is now complete! All audio files can be found on our catalog page: http://librivox.org/the-lesson-of-the-master-by-henry-james/

[clifford]

Anne --

Many many thanks once again for all your work on this. I agree with you that the Master may be a little bit cynical, or at least self-interested in handing out advice to Paul Overt. The novelist Cynthia Ozick has written a couple of piece on this, seeing it as one of James's most important short pieces, and seeing it as a kind of a parable of the choice facing the dedicated great artist: do you free yourself from all encumbrances, human as well as other, to concentrate on your Art? Or do you live a more full human life, which might mean a spouse, who will not only look after you and your affairs, but perhaps also arrange your life for you and order you around, as Mrs. St. George does? If you cut yourself off from all encumbrances, you may well become a great artist. But you also might not, and then what? What have you missed in not having lived a full life, husband, wife, children? No doubt there are some who think the piece may be a bit autobiographical -- there was never a Mrs. Henry James, after all, though contemporary critics of course are much more apt to use this fact to speculate on James's possible homosexuality. Myself, I think that James was one of those men who simply wasn't all that interested in sex in his own life, though of course he found it endlessly fascinating as a source for his fiction.

I've thought about a new project, and been hunting around. I wish there were some first rate Trollope left, but there isn't. What would you think of some ghost stories? There's a collection called Tales of Men and Ghosts by Edith Wharton, who wrote some pretty good stories of that sort (I have no idea whether she really believed in ghosts or not), and no one has done it yet. Ten separate stories. I might give it a try

Best, Nick

[annise]

The Wharton sounds interesting.
I suppose the married or not theory depends on what the wife accepts from the marriage - I have often felt that there are more great male assorted people because they had some one to run around after them cooking and cleaning and washing and mending and providing a sympathic ear. I think genius requires a deal of single mindedness which is a bit akin to selfishness maybe.

Anne

[clifford]

Anne --

I've posted the template form for Tales of Men and Ghosts, and listed you as MC -- and once again many thanks.

Nick