Roderick Hudson


Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)

(4.6 stars; 35 reviews)

Published as a serial in 1875, 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.
Interestingly enough, at least two of the book's characters made sufficient impression on James that he brought them back in other books: the French-Italian-Yankee sculptor, Gloriani, who appears later in The American, and Christina Light, the American who becomes the subject of Princess Casamassima, one of James's later (and much longer) novels.
(Introduction by Nicholas Clifford) (13 hr 21 min)

Kapitel

Chapter I, Part A 32:21 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter I, Part B 29:59 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter II, Part A 33:14 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter II, Part B 34:50 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter III, Part A 35:30 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter III, Part B 35:15 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter IV, Part A 36:47 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter IV, Part B 27:08 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter V Part A 35:00 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter V, Part B 32:01 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter VI, Part A 31:16 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter VI, Part B 28:11 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter VII, Part A 32:38 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter VII, Part B 21:27 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter VIII 46:49 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter IX, Part A 24:21 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter IX, Part B 24:59 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter X, Part A 27:30 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter X, Part B 29:18 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter X, Part C 29:36 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter XI, Part A 37:48 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter XI, Part B 35:13 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter XII, Part A 25:12 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter XII, Part B 27:39 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Chapter XIII 47:25 Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)

Bewertungen


(4 stars)

I read this book one month ago and I'm returning to it just now to write a few words. It is a masterpiece. This story is so disturbing, it got under my skin and it haunts me. It moved me in so many ways..each character was struggling with the existential pain of unrequited love...romantic, platonic, familial. I couldn't read the final chapter. I couldn't handle it. Narrator spectacular, Henry James a master

Got a little bored by the story, but couldn't stop listening to


(3 stars)

Mimi


(5 stars)

Most wonderful novel by Henry James exquisitely read by Nicholas Clifford. A perfect marriage of narrator and text. Thank you Librivox!


(5 stars)

My first James novel and I wasn’t disappointed. Excellent and Nicholas Clifford is superb.

Very professional reader.


(4 stars)

Entertaining. Rather dark humor about self-absorbed artist and his patron.

Extremely well read good story


(5 stars)

Henry James tells a good story -

Excellent reading of an interesting story


(4 stars)

Another great reading from a


(4.5 stars)

Wonderful homoerotic bi implied dazzling mini tragedy. And Clifford sells it better than anyone!