The Real Thing and Other Tales (Prince Classics)
"The Real Thing" is a short story by Henry James, first syndicated by S. S. McClure in multiple American newspapers and then published in the British publication Black and White in April 1892 and the following year as the title story in the collection, The Real Thing and Other Stories published by Macmillan. This story, often read as a parable, plays with the reality-illusion dichotomy that fascinated James, especially in the later stages of his career. For the illustrator who narrates the story, the genuine article proves all too useless for his commercial purposes. The story portrays the unfortunate victims of a society in which reality and representation are closely intertwined in ways that make art a difficult project to disentangle the two. The narrator, an unnamed illustrator and aspiring painter, hires a faded genteel couple, the Monarchs, as models, after they have lost most of their money and must find some line of work. They are the "real thing" in that they perfectly represent the aristocratic type, but they prove inflexible for the painter's work. He comes to rely much more on two lower-class subjects who are nevertheless more capable: Oronte, an Italian, and Miss Churm, a lower-class Englishwoman. The illustrator finally has to get rid of the Monarchs, especially after his friend and fellow artist Jack Hawley criticizes the work in which the Monarchs are represented. Hawley says that the pair has hurt the narrator's art, perhaps permanently. In the final line of the story the narrator says he is "content to have paid the price-for the memory".
| yazar | Henry James |
|---|---|
| Tarafından yayınlandı | 29 Eylül 2020 |
19,5 x 13,5 cm F Scott Fitzgerald 28 Şubat 2018 1 x 13,5 x 21 cm H. G. Wells 5 Ocak 2017 1 x 13,5 x 19,5 cm Kolektif 1 Ocak 2018 15,2 x 0,7 x 22,9 cm B M Bower 29 Eylül 2020 Henry James 15,2 x 0,6 x 22,9 cm G. A. Henty 19,5 x 1 x 13,5 cm 3 Ocak 2017 4 Ocak 2017
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| yazar | Henry James |
|---|---|
| isbn 10 | 9390295378 |
| isbn 13 | 978-9390295371 |
| Yayımcı | Prince Classics |
| Tarafından yayınlandı The Real Thing and Other Tales (Prince Classics) | 29 Eylül 2020 |
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