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The Master

Paperback

Main Details

Title The Master
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Colm Toibin
SeriesPicador Classic
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:368
Dimensions(mm): Height 197,Width 130
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780330485661
ClassificationsDewey:823.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Picador
Publication Date 21 January 2005
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

It is January 1895 and Henry James's play, Guy Domville, from which he hoped to make his fortune, has failed on the London stage. Opening with this disaster, The Master spans the next five years of James's life, during which time he moves to Rye in Sussex, having found his dream retreat. There he writes his short masterpiece The Turn Of The Screw, a tale in which he incorporates many details from his own life, including his experiences as a member of one of the great eccentric American families and, later, an exile in England. Impelled by the need to work and haunted by his past - including his failure to fight in the American Civil War, and the golden summer of 1865, and the death of his sister Alice - James is watchful and witty, relishing the England in which he has come to live and regretting the New England he has left.

Author Biography

Colm Toibin was born in Ireland in 1955. He is the author of four other novels, The South, The Heather Blazing, The Story of the Night and The Blackwater Lightship, which was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize. His non-fiction includes Bad Blood, Homage to Barcelona and The Sign of the Cross. His work has been translated into seventeen languages. He lives in Dublin.