The Princess Casamassima (Annotated)

The Princess Casamassima is Henry James's ambitious political novel of 1886, a work that brings his psychological realism into contact with the social unrest of late-Victorian Europe. Centered on Hyacinth Robinson, a sensitive London bookbinder drawn into revolutionary conspiracy, the novel explores class resentment, aesthetic longing, moral dividedness, and the seductive glamour of radical action...