or
Sign in to turn on 1-Click ordering.
 
 
More Buying Choices
2 new from £10.79
Have one to sell? Sell yours here
 
   
The Sacred Fount: Easyread Edition
 
 
Share your own customer images
Search inside another edition of this book

The Sacred Fount: Easyread Edition [Large Print] (Paperback)

by Henry James (Author) "It was an occasion, I felt-the prospect of a large party-to look out at the station for others, possible friends and even possible enemies, who..." (more)
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
RRP: £11.99
Price: £10.79 & this item Delivered FREE in the UK with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
You Save: £1.20 (10%)
o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o o
In stock.
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk. Gift-wrap available.

Want guaranteed delivery by Friday, February 12? Choose Express delivery at checkout. See Details
2 new from £10.79
Other Editions: RRP: Our Price: Other Offers:
Hardcover (Lrg) Order it used
Paperback £14.95 £14.20 16 used & new from £8.30
Paperback (Large Print) £16.99 £14.44 2 used & new from £14.44
Audio Cassette 2 used & new from £31.98
Textbook Binding Order it used
Unknown Binding Order it used

Frequently Bought Together

Customers buy this book with The Princess Casamassima (Classics) by Henry James

The Sacred Fount: Easyread Edition + The Princess Casamassima (Classics)
Price For Both: £17.93

Show availability and delivery details

Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought

The Princess Casamassima (Classics)

The Princess Casamassima (Classics)

by Henry James
3.0 out of 5 stars (1)  £7.14
Roderick Hudson (Classics)

Roderick Hudson (Classics)

by Henry James
£6.64
The Tragic Muse (Penguin Classics)

The Tragic Muse (Penguin Classics)

by Henry James
4.0 out of 5 stars (1)  £8.44
The Europeans (Penguin Popular Classics)

The Europeans (Penguin Popular Classics)

by Henry James
3.3 out of 5 stars (3)  £2.00
The Spoils of Poynton (Classics)

The Spoils of Poynton (Classics)

by Henry James
5.0 out of 5 stars (1)  £9.89
› Explore similar items

Product details

  • Paperback: 284 pages
  • Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com (7 Jun 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1425084206
  • ISBN-13: 978-1425084202
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.2 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,269,433 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

    •  Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?

Product Description

Product Description

" Set in the backdrop of English countryside, The Sacred Fount is one of those novels by James, which arise curiosity. The narrator makes an effort to find out the truth about the love lives of his fellow-guests at a weekend party. Engrossing suspense!"
Inside This Book (Learn More)
Browse and search another edition of this book.
First Sentence
It was an occasion, I felt-the prospect of a large party-to look out at the station for others, possible friends and even possible enemies, who might be going. Read the first page
Explore More
Concordance
Browse Sample Pages
Front Cover | Table of Contents | Excerpt
Search inside this book:

Suggested Tags from Similar Products

 (What's this?)
Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
 
wharton and james - northeastern twiligh...
henry james

Your tags: Add your first tag
 
See most popular tags
 

Customer Reviews

1 Review
5 star:    (0)
4 star:
 (1)
3 star:    (0)
2 star:    (0)
1 star:    (0)
 
 
 
 
 
Average Customer Review
4.0 out of 5 stars (1 customer review)
 
 
 
 
Share your thoughts with other customers:
Most Helpful Customer Reviews

 
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars First-person Busybody, 25 April 1999
By A Customer
This review is from: The Sacred Fount (Penguin Classics) (Paperback)
This gloriously written, intelligent, comical, baffling but rewarding novel features an absurd, pompous but lovable first-person busybody. (In fact in many places this novel sounds amazingly like Nabokov, though it predates N. by decades.) This is a tricky and notoriously difficult novel, obsessed with consciousness and the lack thereof, and full of "rather happy ambiguities," a phrase that appears in the very first paragraph. Many reviewers didn't get this "anecdote" (the unnamed narrator's term for the novel) at the time it first came out, many were unable to read it, and presumably this is still the case. Even the Jamesian scholars have had problems with such simple things as trying to figure out who is talking and what they're talking about half the time - even though the number of characters totals a mere ten. Each of the first four chapters I had to re-read, slowly, before comprehension set it. But after that it was fairly smooth sailing. Leon Edel's introductory remarks were very helpful in determining what was important and what readers didn't have to worry about. It often seems that James doesn't intend us to understand everything, or even to worry about our lack of understanding. After a while the notion that one should be sweating over the details of this novel seemed absurd, and by the time one reaches chapter 10 one realized that really there is only one character worth paying attention to - the narrator - for all the others are warped through the narrator's hyperactive perception and twisted imagination. The conversations - the various dialogues in the novel - are wonderful, extremely intelligent, subtle and baffling, but the narrator's viewpoint continually underscores the notion that he is the only truly conscious being present, with the possible exception of the painter Obert, with whom he gets along famously, and whom he at one point (chapter 10) describes as seeming to be "just conscious." Strangely, this novel seems to be about people whose natures or physical appearance seem to change in bizarre ways - and it was the first of James' novels to exhibit his new style, which he arrived at when he was well into his fifties. Something must have happened to effect a significant change in his being at about the time of the turning of the century, for not only did his style of writing change but the first novel he writes in the new style is all about change, or at least the appearance of it. At first, the story seems to be about the miraculous effect certain people have on certain people: everything from beauty, intelligence, youthfulness, can be altered by the power of an intense love affair. The narrator at first seems to be a reliable witness to all this, but gradually we begin to realize he's nuttier than a fruitcake and with delusions of grandeur to boot as well as being prone to extreme perecptual errors. In reading this wonderful novel it's important to remember that the main them is appearance versus reality, and it's not all that necessary to keep track of who's who. It's number 9 on the official "A"-List of the Fireside Reading Club. Read 2/25/96.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews  
Was this review helpful to you? Yes No

Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
 
 
 
Only search this product's reviews


Customer Discussions

This product's forum
Discussion Replies Latest Post
No discussions yet

Ask questions, Share opinions, Gain insight
Start a new discussion
Topic:
First post:
Prompts for sign-in
 


Active discussions in related forums
   
Related forums

Listmania!

Create a Listmania! list

Look for similar items by category

Look for similar items by subject






i.e., each product must be in subject 1 AND subject 2 AND ...

Feedback


Your Recent History

 (What's this?)

After viewing product detail pages or search results, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in.