Title: The Sacred Fount
Title Record # 1317106
Author: Henry James
Date: 1901-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
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Author: Henry James
Date: 1901-00-00
Type: NOVEL
Language: English
Synopsis: The Sacred Fount (1901) has for its scene a weekend party at the great English country house Newmarch. Here James leads the reader down a bizarre garden path. The Sacred Fount--his only novel to employ a first-person narrator--places us in the hands of an obsessive novelist (never named and never described, but perhaps familiar), who detects alarming changes in his acquaintances. A woman known for her élan vital has lost her poise, a dull man is charming; a friend is suddenly aged, a plain woman sparkles. Where one improves, another seems to suffer. With "plunges of insight," "as noiseless and guarded as if I were trapping a bird," the narrator stalks his fellow guests through the weekend, avidly trying to make sense of what he comes to believe are actual exchanges of life force.
"The Sacred Fount," as R.P. Blackmur noted, "is the mystery of the power that passes amnong us, depleting or restoring us, in friendship, in love, even in more public relations... [Here] is the beautiful, the critical job of making that mystery manifest."
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Publications
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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The Sacred Fount | 1995-00-00 | Henry James | New Directions (A Revived Modern Classic / New Directions Paperbook #NDP #790) | 0-8112-1279-3 | $11.95?$: US dollar |
236 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
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The Sacred Fount | 2010-06-21 | Henry James | Project Gutenberg | 32939 | ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
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The Sacred Fount | 2012-06-14 | Henry James | ReadHowYouWant | 978-1-4250-8612-1 | $24.99?$: US dollar |
476 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
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The Sacred Fount | 2013-04-16 | Henry James | Herzberg Press | 978-1-4733-8545-0 | $10.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
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The Sacred Fount | 2013-06-23 | Henry James | HardPress Publishing | 978-1-314-53933-2 | $28.95?$: US dollar |
332 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
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The Sacred Fount | date unknown | Henry James | New Directions (A Revived Modern Classic / New Directions Paperbook #NDP #790) | 0-8112-1279-3 | $11.95?$: US dollar |
236 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel |