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The Beautiful Child

Published
Mar 2010
Main Genre
General Fiction General Fiction
Pages
180

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From the acclaimed author of Pemberley and Thornfield Hall comes a tale inspired by Henry James

The Beautiful Child is the last known unfinished story by the great American writer, ending on a Jamesian note of terror and amplified throughout by Tennant's trademark feminist-dreamlike style. A chilling account of cruelty and neglect, it suggests a terrifying real scandal behind James's inability to complete his story of a couple who beseech a fashionable artist to paint the child they never had—none other than the dipsomaniac Mr. and Mrs. Smith, longstanding servants of James until the novel was abandoned.

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Apr 2013 Peter Owen Publishers ISBN 0720614813
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First Edition Mar 2010 Arcadia Books ISBN 190641355X
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Apr 2013 Peter Owen Publishers ISBN B00C0JD0JC
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Apr 2013 Owen, Peter Limited ISBN 0720614589
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Apr 2013 Owen, Peter Limited ISBN 0720614597
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