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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
- Heinemann: 286 pp, Houghton: 323 pp
- 1897
- Heinemann: 6-Feb-1897, Houghton: 13-Feb-1897
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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The Spoils of Poynton: With Pauline Jameson, Gemma Jones, Ian Ogilvy, Diane Fletcher. Adele Gereth has taken young Fleda Vetch under her wing. Adele is intensely houseproud, and sees a potential future mistress of the house in Fleda, and an inheritor of her life's work.
- (78)
- 1971-04-04
- Drama
- 168
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- Henry James
- English
- 1897
- The Spoils of Poynton
The Spoils of Poynton. Henry James, Maureen O'Brien. 3.66. 1,610 ratings177 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.
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 ...
