Which novelist wrote 'The Bostonians'?
"Burrage (John Van Ness). Roger Ebert praised the film, giving it 3 out of 3 stars and observing: ...intelligent and subtle and open to the underlying tragedy of a woman who does not know what she wants, a man who does not care what he wants, and a girl who does not need what she wants. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an 80% approval rating. This film was principally photographed at: The Bostonians (film) The Bostonians is a 1984 British romantic drama film based on Henry James's novel ""The Bostonians"". It was adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala."
"Princess Casamassima"" (published in the same year) had on his critical fortunes. Although he didn't turn away from political themes completely, he never again gave political ideas such a prominent place in his fiction. ""The Bostonians"" is allegedly based on the novel ""The Evangelist,"" by Alphonse Daudet. ""The Bostonians"" was filmed in 1984 by the Merchant Ivory team (director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant, writer Ruth Prawer Jhabvala) with Christopher Reeve, Vanessa Redgrave and Madeleine Potter in the three central roles. The movie earned mixed reviews, with a 60% ""fresh"" rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Vanessa Redgrave's performance received high marks,"
"old family friend, died in 1882. His friend Turgenev died in 1883. In 1884 James made another visit to Paris. There he met again with Zola, Daudet, and Goncourt. He had been following the careers of the French ""realist"" or ""naturalist"" writers, and was increasingly influenced by them. In 1886, he published ""The Bostonians"" and ""The Princess Casamassima"", both influenced by the French writers he'd studied assiduously. Critical reaction and sales were poor. He wrote to Howells that the books had hurt his career rather than helped because they had ""reduced the desire, and demand, for my productions to zero""."
"Boston (novel) Boston is a novel by Upton Sinclair. It is a ""documentary novel"" that combines the facts of the case with journalistic depictions of actual participants and fictional characters and events. Sinclair indicted the American system of justice by setting his characters in the context of the prosecution and execution of Sacco and Vanzetti. Sinclair worked from a passionate conviction that the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti constituted ""the most shocking crime that has been committed in American history since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln"" and a belief that ""It will empoison our public life for a generation."" He"
"ten times as many still in slumber, the names of Sacco and Vanzetti would be the eternal symbols of a dream, identical with civilization itself, of a human society in which wealth belongs to the producers of wealth, and the rewards of labor are to the laborers."" (754-5) Boston (novel) Boston is a novel by Upton Sinclair. It is a ""documentary novel"" that combines the facts of the case with journalistic depictions of actual participants and fictional characters and events. Sinclair indicted the American system of justice by setting his characters in the context of the prosecution and execution of"
"in Boston"" (1853)). The novel, unlike previous examples of plantation literature, criticized abolitionism in the United States and how easily anti-slavery organisations such as the Underground Railroad could be manipulated by pro-slavery superiors - a concept previously discussed in Rev. Baynard Rush Hall's earlier anti-Tom novel, ""Frank Freeman's Barber Shop"" (1852). The book's main character is Eulalia, a young daughter of an abolitionist from New England and the wife of a plantation owner named Moreland. At first indoctrinated by her father's views on abolitionism, Eulalia initially condemns her husband's use of slaves on his plantation - even though he is"
"Marisa Tomei, Emily Deschanel, Viola Léger, Julianne Moore, Uzo Aduba, Paul Michael Glaser and Geena Davis. Notable musicians include Taiwanese composer Wen-Pin Hope Lee. Two US Poet Laureates have taught at Boston University: Robert Lowell and Robert Pinsky. During John Silber's tenure as president, he recruited two Nobel Prize-winning literary figures to the university's faculty: Elie Wiesel, winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize, and Saul Bellow, winner of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature. Another Nobel Prize winner in the English Department in the twentieth century was Derek Walcott, winner of the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. Alumni of"
"The Princess Casamassima The Princess Casamassima is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in ""The Atlantic Monthly"" in 1885-1886 and then as a book in 1886. It is the story of an intelligent but confused young London bookbinder, Hyacinth Robinson, who becomes involved in radical politics and a terrorist assassination plot. The book is unusual in the Jamesian canon for dealing with such a violent political subject. But it is often paired with another novel published by James in the same year, ""The Bostonians"", which is also concerned with political issues, though in a much less"
"The Boston Miscellany The Boston Miscellany of Literature and Fashion was a monthly literary and fashion magazine published in Boston, Massachusetts in 1842-1843. The initial issue of ""The Boston Miscellany"" was published in January 1842, with Nathan Hale, Jr. (sone of the journalist Nathan Hale) and Henry Theodore Tuckerman as editors. The magazine was published by Bradbury, Soden & Co. It ceased publication after the 14th issue in February 1843. Contributors to the magazine included Henry David Thoreau, Edward Everett, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edward Everett Hale, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Parker Willis. Sarah Hale, Nathan Hale's wife,"
"The Californians (film) The Californians is a 2005 American independent drama film from Hart Sharp Films starring Noah Wyle. It is a modern-day adaptation of the 1886 Henry James novel ""The Bostonians"", with the location moved from Boston to Marin County, California, and with the political topic driving the plot changed from feminism to environmentalism. ""The Californians"" is the second film adaptation of ""The Bostonians"", after the 1984 film ""The Bostonians"". Gavin Ransom (Noah Wyle) is a successful real estate developer who has made a tidy fortune putting up gated communities filled with expensive suburban homes all over California. Ransom"
"glorious city I know of none that has approached so near in some points, distant as it may still be from that illustrious model.' From this, Boston has been called the ""Athens of America"" (also a nickname of Philadelphia) for its literary culture, earning a reputation as ""the intellectual capital of the United States."" In the nineteenth century, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller, James Russell Lowell, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote in Boston. Some consider the Old Corner Bookstore to be the ""cradle of American literature,"" the place where these writers met and where ""The"
"His most famous novel is """" (1826), the second book of the ""Leatherstocking Tales"" pentalogy. ""The Last of the Mohicans"" is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War), when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. ""The Scarlet Letter"" (1850) by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is perhaps the most famous 19th-century American historical novel. Set in 17th-century Puritan Boston, Massachusetts during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. In French"
"It Happened in Boston? It Happened in Boston? (1968) is a novel by Russell H. Greenan. It tells the story of an unreliable narrator, who is a disillusioned painter. He decides to find God and hold God accountable for the evils in the world. The narrator, who is unnamed, comes to enjoy ""reveries"" in a public garden in which he transports himself to historical places and events. Although he has no name, he tells a young boy named Randolph several different names over the course of the book. The storyline is interspersed with reveries, accounts of paranoia, and past memories"
"Lewis Brogan (considered to be Nelson Algren, to whom the book is dedicated) is an American writer with whom Anne has an extended affair. Scriassine — David Cesarani in the biography ""Arthur Koestler: The Homeless Mind"", suggests that Scriassine's character is drawn on Arthur Koestler. The Mandarins The Mandarins () is a 1954 roman à clef by Simone de Beauvoir, for which she won the Prix Goncourt, awarded to the best and most imaginative prose work of the year, in 1954. ""The Mandarins"" was first published in English in 1956 (in a translation by Leonard M. Friedman). The book follows"
"Boston in 1813 he became a member and subsequently a proprietor of the Boston Athenæum. In 1845 he donated $25,000 to this institution to establish what is today the institution's largest book fund. Qunicy writes: Mr. Bromfield's repugnance to be known as the author of this gift to the Athenæum was with great difficulty surmounted. But, when it was urged that its origin could not long be concealed in an inquisitive community, that he might be subjected to inquiries, which his strict regard to veracity would render it impossible to evade, and also that it was as much a man's"
"The Morgesons The Morgesons is a novel written by Elizabeth Stoddard in 1862. A female ""bildungsroman"", it traces the quest of a young woman in search of self-definition and autonomy. The novel comments upon the oppression of women in mid-nineteenth-century New England and challenges the religious and social norms of the time period. Stoddard's novel traces the education and development of a young female in American middle-class society. The protagonist, Cassandra Morgeson, is educated by a series of journeys she makes throughout her youth and early adulthood. Each new setting represents a different stage in her intellectual development. Cassandra is"
"Street and Kingston Street on November 9. In two days the conflagration destroyed about 65 acres (260,000 m²) of the city, including 776 buildings in the financial district, totaling $60 million in damage. From the mid-to-late-19th century, the Boston Brahmins flourished culturally—they became renowned for its rarefied literary culture and lavish artistic patronage. Literary residents included, among many others, writers Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., James Russell Lowell, and Julia Ward Howe, as well as historians John Lothrop Motley, John Gorham Palfrey, George Bancroft, William Hickling Prescott, Francis Parkman, Henry Adams, James Ford Rhodes, Edward Channing"
"(1867) and ""A Moral Antipathy"" (1885), because of the characters' health or mental problems which are ""diagnosed"" in the text. The character of Elsie Venner may have been modeled on the famous feminist pioneer Margaret Fuller, whom Holmes knew from his school days in Cambridge. It was in ""Elsie Venner"" that Holmes first coined the term Boston Brahmin, originally referred to as ""the Brahmin caste of New England... the harmless, inoffensive, untitled aristocracy"". The novel was adapted into a 1914 silent film. Elsie Venner Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny is an 1861 novel by American author and physician Oliver"
"the San Francisco Chronicle and was among the ""Reviewers' Favorite"" books of 2011 by The New Yorker magazine. ""The Bostons"", Cooke's first collection of short stories (2001) won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize (2002) for a first book and was cited as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She lives in Point Arena, California with her husband, poet Randall Babtkis. Carolyn Cooke Carolyn Cooke (born on Mount Desert Island, Maine) is an American short story writer and novelist. Cooke is a graduate of Smith College and holds a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University. She teaches"
"The Boston Associates The Boston Associates were a loosely linked group of investors in 19th-century New England. They included Nathan Appleton, Patrick Tracy Jackson, Abbott Lawrence, and Amos Lawrence. Often related directly or through marriage, they were based in Boston, Massachusetts. The term ""Boston Associates"" was coined by historian Vera Shlakmen in 1935. By 1845, there were 31 textile companies—located in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and southern Maine—produced one-fifth of all cotton and wool textiles in the United States. With the capital earned through these mills, they invested in railroads, especially the Boston and Lowell. These railroads helped transport the cotton"
"The Devastators (Cambridge novel) The Devastators (1901) is a novel by Australian writer Ada Cambridge. The novel considers the impacts on two ill-made marriages: Peggy Le Marchand is married to Harry Bedingfield, but should have married Dr. Dallas who is actually married to Mimi Rochester. A reviewer in ""Freeman's Journal"" was underwhelmed by the book noting it is ""described as 'a novel with a purpose.' Masters of the craft of bookmaking like Dickens also wrote novels with a purpose, the moral of which ran in a thin red line of tragedy carefully woven into a healthy story in which comedy"
"to the factual record which is seldom met with in historical novels."" Sinclair met with attorneys in New York City to make final changes to the text to allay their fears of libel suits. The novel first appeared serially in ""The Bookman"" between February and November 1928 under the title ""Boston, a Contemporary Historical Novel"" and was then published in 2 volumes by Albert & Charles Boni that same year. It has since been republished in one volume as ""Boston: A Novel"" and then ""Boston: A Documentary Novel"". It has been published as well in at least 15 other languages."
"against Gavin's proposal with guitar in hand. Gavin unexpectedly finds himself growing powerfully infatuated with Zoe, and Olive, a long-closeted lesbian, is equally taken with her; consequently, as the siblings battle against building several dozen cookie-cutter mansions, they also wage a private war for the affections of the young songstress. The Californians (film) The Californians is a 2005 American independent drama film from Hart Sharp Films starring Noah Wyle. It is a modern-day adaptation of the 1886 Henry James novel ""The Bostonians"", with the location moved from Boston to Marin County, California, and with the political topic driving the plot"
"19th and early 20th centuries. Although born in New York City, he spent most of his adult years in England. Many of his novels center on Americans who live in or travel to Europe. James confronted the Old World-New World dilemma by writing directly about it. His works include ""The Portrait of a Lady"", ""The Bostonians"" (1886), ""The Princess Casamassima"" (1886). The premier ghost story writer of the 19th century was Sheridan Le Fanu. His works include the macabre mystery novel ""Uncle Silas"" (1865), and his Gothic novella ""Carmilla"" (1872) tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the"
"James Bowdoin James Bowdoin II (; August 7, 1726 – November 6, 1790) was an American political and intellectual leader from Boston, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution and the following decade. He initially gained fame and influence as a wealthy merchant. He served in both branches of the Massachusetts General Court from the 1750s to the 1770s. Although he was initially supportive of the royal governors, he opposed British colonial policy and eventually became an influential advocate of independence. He authored a highly political report on the 1770 Boston Massacre that has been described by historian Francis Walett as one"
"Boston Chronicle The Boston Chronicle was an American colonial newspaper published briefly from December 21, 1767 until 1770 in Boston, Massachusetts. The publishers, John Mein and John Fleeming, were both from Scotland. The ""Chronicle"" was a Loyalist paper in the time before the American Revolution. In its second year, Mein printed names in the paper that accused some colonial merchants of breaking a British nonimportation agreement. In response, Mein's name appeared on a list of merchants who violated the trade agreement. Mein retaliated by accusing the Merchants' Committee of using the nonimportation agreement for illegal profiteering. The irritated readership ransacked"
"Johnny Tremain Johnny Tremain is a 1943 children's historical fiction novel by Esther Forbes set in Boston prior to and during the outbreak of the American Revolution. Intended for teen-aged readers, the novel's themes include apprenticeship, courtship, sacrifice, human rights, and the growing tension between Patriots and Loyalists as conflict nears. Events described in the novel include the Boston Tea Party, the British blockade of the Port of Boston, the midnight ride of Paul Revere, and the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The book won the 1944 Newbery Medal and is the 16th bestselling children's book as of the year"
"the Horrid Massacre"", published under the auspices of the Boston town meeting, was principally written by James Bowdoin, a member of the governor's council and a vocal opponent of British colonial policy, along with Samuel Pemberton, and Joseph Warren. It described the shooting and other lesser incidents that took place in the days before as unprovoked attacks on peaceful, law-abiding inhabitants, and was, according to historian Neal Langley York, probably the most influential description of the event. The account it provided was drawn from more than 90 depositions taken after the event, and it included accusations that the soldiers sent"
"alumni, Boston University graduates can be found around the world. American Civil Rights Movement leader Martin Luther King, Jr. earned his doctorate in systematic theology at BU in 1955. After gaining prominence by advocating nonviolent resistance to segregation, he won the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. Howard Thurman, the Dean of Marsh Chapel, influenced King's embrace of nonviolence. Three other alumni hold special historical importance: Rebecca Lee Crumpler was the first African-American woman and Charles Eastman (first named Ohiyesa) the first American Indian to be certified as doctors, and Helen Magill White was the first woman in the US to earn"
"Maturin Murray Ballou Maturin Murray Ballou (April 14, 1820March 27, 1895) was a writer and publisher in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. He co-founded ""Gleason's Pictorial"", was the first editor of the ""Boston Daily Globe,"" and wrote numerous travel books and works of popular fiction. Ballou was born in Boston in 1820, to parents Hosea Ballou and Ruth Washburn. He attended The English High School, and although he passed the entrance exam for Harvard College, he did not attend. He married Mary Anne Roberts on Sept. 15, 1839; children included Murray Roberts Ballou (b. 1840). Starting around 1838, Ballou wrote for the"
"translated tales from German into English that were published in the magazine. The Boston Miscellany The Boston Miscellany of Literature and Fashion was a monthly literary and fashion magazine published in Boston, Massachusetts in 1842-1843. The initial issue of ""The Boston Miscellany"" was published in January 1842, with Nathan Hale, Jr. (sone of the journalist Nathan Hale) and Henry Theodore Tuckerman as editors. The magazine was published by Bradbury, Soden & Co. It ceased publication after the 14th issue in February 1843. Contributors to the magazine included Henry David Thoreau, Edward Everett, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edward Everett Hale, Nathaniel Parker Willis,"
"Boston King Boston King (c. 1760–1802) was a former American slave and Black Loyalist, who gained freedom from the British and settled in Nova Scotia after the American Revolutionary War. He later immigrated to Sierra Leone, where he helped found Freetown and became the first Methodist missionary to African indigenous people. He published his autobiography in 1798, which was one of only three by Black Nova Scotians and also notable among slave narratives as a work that was trans-Atlantic. King, who had been born a slave in South Carolina, was apprenticed as a carpenter. He joined the British when they"
"The Blue Barbarians The Blue Barbarians is a science fiction novel by American author Stanton A. Coblentz. It was first published in ""Amazing Stories"" magazine in 1931 and first published in book form in 1958 by Avalon Books. The novel is a satire on the American economic and political system as they existed in 1931. In the Eight Hundredth Millennium the sun is fading and Earth is freezing over. Humanity needs a new home if it is to survive and Venus has been chosen for exploration. Seven expeditions have gone to Venus and vanished: now the eighth is leaving. Physicist"