Roderick Hudson

"If the authorship of 'Roderick Hudson' were a secret, we think very few people would guess it to be a first novel. It has little of the freshness and none of the crudeness of most such attempts....As far as one can describe a book in a single phrase, this one is a study of character. There is no plot....Looking at the book as a whole, it is a marvelous mosaic, whose countless minute pieces are fitted with so much skill and ingenuity that a real picture is presented, but with an absence of richness and relief....[A]ll it lacks is to have been told with more human feeling."James, Henry is the author of 'Roderick Hudson', published 1986 under ISBN 9780140432640 and ISBN 0140432647.