Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. As is usual with Henry James, readers will have to make their own judgements.įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit . The Princess Casamassima Henry James 3.77 811 ratings103 reviews Want to read Kindle 1.50 Rate this book This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. It is a political novel in which anarchists and terrorists. Yet she and Robinson are only two of a larger set of characters whose commitment to an imagined revolutionary cause may be sincere or many be questionable. The Princess Casamassima was published in 1886, a year that saw riots of the unemployed in London. The Princess herself started as the beautiful and intelligent American Christina Light in James’s Roderick Hudson but has now come to London to escape the Neapolitan prince to whom she is unhappily married. Princess Casamassima can be read on several levels: first, as a political and social novel, exploring the anarchistic and revolutionary underground of London in the 1880s secondly as a psychological study of such a movement on a young man (the protagonist, Hyacinth Robinson) who may or may not be descended from the aristocracy, but whose artistic nature shines out in the midst of the London slums and thirdly, as an examination of the conundrum whether the world of art and culture is necessarily built on the abject poverty of others.
LibriVox recording of Princess Casamassima by Henry James. 1The Princess Casamassima, James tells us in the preface, proceeded directly from the habit and the interest of walking the street,2 and its hero.
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