A poor, high-strung young man is drawn into revolutionary conspiracy and torn between violence and beauty. James's novel of London anarchism.
Books mentioned in The Princess Casamassima (3)
Men and Women by Robert Browning: “He took _Men and Women_ from his pocket, and read aloud for half an”
Essays by Francis Bacon: “Mr. Vetch made him a present of the essays of Lord Bacon”
Souvenirs de la Marquise de Créqui: “There were several volumes of Lamartine and a set of the spurious memoirs of the Marquise de Créqui”
Books that mention The Princess Casamassima (3)
How to Read and Why by Harold Bloom: “rather like the London underground movement of Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent and Henry James's The Princess Casamassima”
On Women by Susan Sontag: “...when Henry James made his prescient, melancholy analysis of our post-1960s cultural dilemmas in The Princess Casamassima...”
Letting Go by Philip Roth: “I was working a little late one night—reading The Princess Casamassima in my office—and when I came out to the Midway, there was my car being pushed away.”