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The awkward age / Henry James ; with an introduction by Cynthia Ozick.

by James, Henry, 1843-1916.

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Knopf : Distributed by Random House, [1993]

Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.

Young women -- Fiction.

England -- Fiction.

Everyman's library (Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.) ; 152

xliv, 393 p. ; 21 cm.

First published in 1899.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxvi-xxxvii).

"the story of Nanda Brookenham, a young society woman whose attempts at marriage are foiled by various members of her mother's social circle. Nanda's manipulative mother, Fernanda, is the hostess of a fashionable London salon. The two women both appear to love Gustavus Vanderbank, a young government employee, who becomes alienated from them. Nanda is befriended by the elderly Mr. Longdon, who once courted her grandmother, and by the young Mr. Mitchett, who unhappily marries Little Aggie, a naive young woman steered into the marriage by her conniving aunt, the Duchess."--Merriam-Webster Encyclopedia of Literature.

Historical fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Classic fiction.

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