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  1. The Spoils of Poynton is a novel by Henry James, first published under the title The Old Things as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1896 and then as a book in 1897. This novel traces the shifting relations among three people and a magnificent collection of art, decorative arts, and furniture arrayed like jewels in a country house ...

    • Henry James
    • 1897
  2. The Spoils of Poynton, short novel by Henry James, first published as a serial titled The Old Things in The Atlantic Monthly in 1896. Retitled The Spoils of Poynton, it was published as a book in 1897. Poynton Park is the home of old Mrs. Gereth, an antique collector with impeccable taste who has.

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  3. 2. Aug. 2010 · You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Spoils of Poynton Author: Henry James Release Date: August 2, 2010 [EBook #33325] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SPOILS ...

  4. Its theme is that a lofty. moral idealism may be humanly disastrous. The story begins with a quarrel about goods, physical goods, first of all, the house of Poynton and its matchless furnishings. Out of this conflict there rises another, of greater complexity, concerning ethical goods, ideals and principles.

  5. Henry James, Maureen O'Brien. 3.66. 1,617 ratings179 reviews. Mrs. Gereth, widowed chatelaine of Poynton, is fighting to keep her house with its priceless objets d'art from her son Owen and his lovely, utterly philistine fiancée.

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  6. At the conclusion of Henry James’s 1896 novel The Spoils of Poynton, the protagonist Fleda Vetch struggles to articulate her sense of the ‘vivid presence of the artist’s idea’ she perceives in the maiden- aunt’s house at Ricks: ‘It’s a kind of fourth dimension. It’s a presence, a perfume, a touch. It’s a soul, a story, a life ...

  7. 2. Aug. 2010 · 33325. Release Date. Aug 2, 2010. Copyright Status. Public domain in the USA. Downloads. 198 downloads in the last 30 days. Project Gutenberg eBooks are always free! Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.