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The Princess Casamassima
novel by James
The Princess Casamassima, novel by Henry James, published in three volumes in 1886. In the novel James examines the anarchist violence of the late 19th century by depicting the struggle of Hyacinth Robinson, a man who toys with revolution and is destroyed by it. James offers an interesting portrait of an upper-class reformer in the character of the Princess Casamassima, who has rejected the empty social life of her husband and has become involved with reformers and proletarian groups in London.
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