Hyacinth Robinson, raised by the little dressmaker Miss Pynsent in a shabby London street, carries a secret about his parentage that haunts him. As a sensitive young bookbinder he falls in with anarchists and makes a grave promise to their cause, just as the beautiful, restless Princess Casamassima opens to him a world of art and refinement.
James’s darkest London novel, a searching study of class, politics and beauty in the 1880s. Download the free EPUB.