{"product_id":"the-ivory-tower-9781590170786","title":"The Ivory Tower","description":"In 1914, Henry James began work on a major novel about the immense new fortunes of America's Gilded Age. After an absence of more than twenty years, James had returned for a visit to his native country; what he found there filled him with profound dismay. In \u003ci\u003eThe Ivory Tower\u003c\/i\u003e, his last book, the characteristic pattern underlying so much of his fiction--in which American \"innocence\" is transformed by its encounter with European \"experience\"--receives a new twist: raised abroad, the hero comes home to America to confront, as James puts it, \"the black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJames died in 1916 with the first three books of \u003ci\u003eThe Ivory Tower \u003c\/i\u003ecompleted. He also left behind a \"treatment,\" in which he charted the further progress of his story. This fascinating scenario, one of only two to survive among James's papers, is also published here together with a striking critical essay by Ezra Pound.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/29\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590170786\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 266\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Henry James","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45418971005109,"sku":"9781590170786","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_37e51687-dd95-4596-bc28-c787fe041658.jpg?v=1748390442","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-ivory-tower-9781590170786","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}