{"product_id":"roderick-hudson","title":"Roderick Hudson (The New York Edition of Henry James)","description":"xix, 526 pp. Author's third book, his first novel, with note by Percy Hubbock and preface by author. Originally published in 1875 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, \"Roderick Hudson\" is a bildungsroman that traces the development of the title character, a sculptor. \"Roderick Hudson\" is James's first important novel. The theme of Americans in Europe, so important in much of James's work, is already central to the story. Hudson is a young law student in Northampton, Massachusetts, who shows such surprising ability as a sculptor that the rich Rowland Mallett, visiting a cousin in Northampton, decides to stake him to several years of study in Rome, then a center of expatriate American society. The story has to do not only with Roderick's growth as an artist and the problems it brings, but also as a man susceptible to his new environment, and indeed his occasional rivalries with his American friend and patron.","brand":"Augustus M. Kelley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41490229624902,"sku":"2343484","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/files\/2343484.jpg?v=1713812006","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/roderick-hudson","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}