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Henry James: The Coxon fund

Original language: English
Original title: The Coxon fond
Date Published: 1894
Rating: Recommended

When they want to read something good, something really good without incurring risks, it is always advisable to resort to such authors as Henry James, who rarely give a fright.

Come when you want to enjoy reading a book with an argument solid and attractive, well-armed characters and indisputable literary quality, and finish it without getting to the uncomfortable feeling of burning time, I think you have to choose works of authors call them, embodied. And among this genre of writers who have an outstanding style and whose only sin may be to be "too classical" or "too slow" to a certain type of reader fond of literary fast food, is Henry James, the creator of works as Portrait of a Lady or The Wings of the Dove . Indeed, it is said that the book I review today could be a sort of prelude to this novel ...

Written in 1894 and first published in Spain in 2010 for the newly finished penthouse books, Coxon fund short novel is a delicious aroma that has a typically Jamesian . Account of the vicissitudes that have a small group of people who in one way or another, are involved in the question: has to decide whom to award a lucrative economic substance provided by a filthy rich family who wants to give of protective poor artists and geniuses. Saltram, its leading candidate, it will be a type capable of lifting resabido all kinds of passions ...

Thus, Coxon fund, we will march to pitagorín concerned, the bold and unproductive Mr. Saltram, the young descendant of the ideologues of the fund, it's suitor, the suitor's friend (the narrator's sense of history), and other characters from the alleged intellectual and wealthy society starched ladies and gentlemen who reigned in the United States and in England most royal of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

definitely recommend this nice and short novel to those who can enjoy the great James and wish to compare past and present to verify that, though centuries pass, the stupidity and appear stiff whip jeopardizing sanity, are well alive.

also Henry James: " The friends of friends"