6/11/2023 0 Comments The American by Henry JamesJames was able to recover part of the lost sum by selling the copyright to Macmillan and Co., which published The Bostonians in a three-volume edition in Britain in February 1886, and in a one-volume edition in the US in May 1886. In May 1885, before the serialization had finished and James had been paid any of the money owed to him, Osgood's firm went bankrupt. Osgood made a separate agreement with The Century for the magazine to serialize the novel. to publish the book in the United States for $4,000. Henry James originally entered into an agreement with the Boston publisher James R. The storyline concerns the struggle between Ransom and Olive for Verena's allegiance and affection, though the novel also includes a wide panorama of political activists, newspaper people, and quirky eccentrics. This bittersweet tragicomedy centres on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist and Verena Tarrant, a pretty, young protégée of Olive's in the feminist movement. The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. Volume one, 244 volume two, 226 volume three, 232
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