The awkward age - James, Henry, 1843-1916. (New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1993)
Henry James had arrived at such mastery of the forms and uses of fiction by the time he published The Awkward Age in 1899 that this story of a young girl introduced into a casually corrupt circle of sophisticates is at once a universal drama of innocence confronting evil, a detailed examination of a social order, and a stunning picture of a civilization in crisis. On the verge of what was to be his greatest period of creativity
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxvi-xxxvii).
Keywords: Mothers and daughters -- Fiction; Young women -- Fiction; England -- Fiction; Domestic fiction; Bildungsromane