{"product_id":"the-lesson-of-the-master-the-art-of-the-novella-series-9780974607849","title":"The Lesson of the Master (The Art of the Novella series)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Lesson of the Master (The Art of the Novella series)\u003c\/strong\u003e by James, Henry. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780974607849.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"You know as well as you sit there that youd put a pistol-ball into your brain if you had written my books!\"\n\nExemplifying Henry Jamess famous belief that \"Art makes life,\" The Lesson of the Master is a piercing study of the life that art makes. When the tales protagonist—a gifted young writer—meets and befriends a famous author he has long idolized, he is both repelled by and attracted to the artists great secret: the emotional costs of a life dedicated to art.\n\nWith extraordinary psychological insight and devastating wit, the novella asks the question of whether art is, ultimately, demeaning or ennobling for the artist, while capturing the ambiguities of a life devoted to art, and the choices artists must make. The expatriate James knew these choice well by the time he published the novella in the Universal Review in 1888, and the work reveals him at the height of his powers.\n\nThe Art of The Novella Series\n\nToo short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literatures greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44944996761653,"sku":"ByrdShop_0974607843","price":30.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780974607849_d3f143b0-949f-4e2c-aa67-6c625a64a875.jpg?v=1792410025","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-lesson-of-the-master-the-art-of-the-novella-series-9780974607849","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}