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    The Altar of the Dead: A spiritual and philosophical fable about life, death and love.
    The Altar of the Dead: A spiritual and philosophical fable about life, death and love.
    The Altar of the Dead: A spiritual and philosophical fable about life, death and love.
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    The Altar of the Dead: A spiritual and philosophical fable about life, death and love.

    Written by Henry James

    Narrated by Eric Meyers, Laurel Lefkow and Christopher Ragland

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    About this audiobook

    Henry James was born 15th April 1843 in New York City.

    His youth was spent travelling with his family receiving what was an "extraordinarily haphazard and promiscuous" education as they journeyed through London, Paris, Geneva, Boulogne-sur-Mer and Newport, Rhode Island, according to the father's current interests and publishing ventures. James studied primarily with tutors and only briefly attended schools.

    Undoubtedly the quality of his writing has ensured his name is enshrined in the American literary tradition.

    James was a committed Anglophile and spent most of his adult life as an expatriate in Europe. Many of his novels juxtapose the Old World with the New World. Classics such as ‘The Portrait of a Lady’, ‘Daisy Miller’ and ‘The Ambassadors’, display the entanglement between American and European cultures and mentalities. They highlight the differences between the two worlds through following the experiences of American expatriates in Europe.

    A prolific author he was able to easily move across genres to create vivid and totally real worlds and situations and to offer sophisticated observations of human relations as well as realistic, social criticism.

    As a critic James was unafraid to venture into reviews and essays of those other literary giants around him. These together with his short stories and, of course, classic novels, make Henry James an author to be not only admired but read, and read often.

    In 1915 Henry James became a British citizen.

    On 28th February 1916, at the age of 72, Henry James died in Chelsea, London.

    He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912 and 1916. He never won.

    In this story James examines the effect that the death of a dearly loved person has on a man’s life. How he copes, how he grieves and how he attempts to move forward.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe Copyright Group
    Release dateAug 8, 2022
    ISBN9781803544298
    The Altar of the Dead: A spiritual and philosophical fable about life, death and love.
    Author

    Henry James

    Henry James was born in New York in 1843, the younger brother of the philosopher William James, and was educated in Europe and America. He left Harvard Law School in 1863, after a year's attendance, to concentrate on writing, and from 1869 he began to make prolonged visits to Europe, eventually settling in England in 1876. His literary output was both prodigious and of the highest quality: more than ten outstanding novels including his masterpiece, The Portrait of a Lady; countless novellas and short stories; as well as innumerable essays, letters, and other pieces of critical prose. Known by contemporary fellow novelists as 'the Master', James died in Kensington, London, in 1916.

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