414 Henry James's Golden Bowl (with Dinitia Smith) | William Blake Preview (with John Higgs‪)‬ The History of Literature

Money. Sex. Power. Family. Those are the conceits at the heart of Henry James's late-period masterpiece, The Golden Bowl. In this episode, Jacke talks to author Dinitia Smith, whose new novel The Prince reinvigorates this classic story of a wealthy American widower, his doting daughter, her charismatic foreign husband, and the childhood friend whose secret love affairs threaten to jeopardize multiple marriages.
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340 Forgotten Women of Literature 5 - Constance Fenimore Woolson

341 Constance and Henry - The Story of "Miss Grief"

343 The Feast in the Jungle

344 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Beast

346 For Whom the Beast Leaps


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