Book Description
In 1914, Henry James began work on a major novel about the immense new fortunes of the Gilded Age. Set among the great houses and sweeping sea views of Newport, Rhode Island, with the backroom deals and enduring animosities of New York's financial world lurking in the background, The Ivory Tower explores the predicaments of Rosanna Gaw and Graham Felder, heirs to two rival tycoons. The good intentions of these fine young people make them the perfect instruments through which their benefactors can pursue their own ambitions, even from beyond the grave. When James died in 1916, he had completed the first three books of The Ivory Tower.
About the author
HENRY JAMES (1843–1916), the younger brother of the psychologist William James and one of the greatest of American writers, was born in New York but lived for most of his life in England. Among the best known of his many stories and novels are The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, and The Wings of the Dove. The Ivory Tower, one of two novels that remained uncompleted at the time of James’s death, joins his earlier works The Other House and The Outcry on the New York Review Classics list.
