{"product_id":"lesson-of-the-master-book-henry-james-9780974607849","title":"The Lesson of the Master","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"You know as well as you sit there that you'd put a pistol-ball into your brain if you had written my books!\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Exemplifying Henry James's famous belief that \"Art makes life,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Lesson of the Master\u003c\/i\u003e is a piercing study of the life that art makes. When the tale's protagonist--a gifted young writer--meets and befriends a famous author he has long idolized, he is both repelled by and attracted to the artist's great secret: the emotional costs of a life dedicated to art.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With extraordinary psychological insight and devastating wit, the novella asks the question of whether art is, ultimately, demeaning or ennobling for the artist, while capturing the ambiguities of a life devoted to art, and the choices artists must make. The expatriate James knew these choice well by the time he published the novella in the \u003ci\u003eUniversal Review\u003c\/i\u003e in 1888, and the work reveals him at the height of his powers.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Art of The Novella Series\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49524269252881,"sku":"GOR003970014","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49775128281361,"sku":"CIN0974607843G","price":6.13,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":49908503773457,"sku":"CIN0974607843A","price":6.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50763629691153,"sku":"CIN0974607843VG","price":6.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53348562108689,"sku":"GOR005905525","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0974607843.jpg?v=1750706203","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/lesson-of-the-master-book-henry-james-9780974607849","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}