Sir Dominick Ferrand
"Levity" is not a word often applied to Henry James, but this story has about it an attractively lighthearted quality. It tells of Peter Baron, a poor, young struggling writer of adequate, if not transcendent, talent, who lives in a dreary London boarding house inhabited also by a mysteriously clairvoyant and beautiful young widow, with her small boy. When Baron buys himself a second-hand writing desk to stimulate the creative juices, he finds carefully hidden within it a cache of letters that appear to compromise a recently deceased statesman. The discovery and his struggle to handle the questions they pose ultimately change his life. Along the way he also discovers, as a fringe benefit, a talent for what Americans (though probably not Jamesians) call Tin Pan Alley. (Summary by Nicholas Clifford)
Genre(s): General Fiction
Language: English
Section | Chapter | Reader | Time |
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Play 01 | Chapter I | Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) |
00:18:14 |
Play 02 | Chapter II | Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) |
00:31:03 |
Play 03 | Chapter III | Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) |
00:16:41 |
Play 04 | Chapter IV | Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) |
00:22:37 |
Play 05 | Chapter V | Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) |
00:16:39 |
Play 06 | Chapter VI | Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) |
00:08:36 |
Play 07 | Chapter VII | Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019) |
00:26:51 |