The beautiful child : a ghost story based on a tale by Henry James

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The beautiful child : a ghost story based on a tale by Henry James

Emma Tennant

Peter Owen, 2012

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From Emma Tennant, the acclaimed author of Pemberley and Burnt Diaries, comes an unforgettable tale inspired by Henry James. The Beautiful Child is the last known unfinished story by the great American writer, ending on a Jamesian note of terror in a Christmas idyll, amplified throughout by Tennant's trademark feminist-dreamlike style. A chilling account of cruelty and neglect, Tennant's story suggests a terrifying real scandal behind James's inability to complete his tale of a couple who beseech a fashionable artist to paint the child they never had - none other than the dipsomaniac Mr and Mrs Smith, longstanding servants of James until the novel was abandoned...

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  • NCID
    BB27926914
  • ISBN
    • 9780720614817
  • LCCN
    2012551790
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    139 p.
  • Size
    20 cm
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