What is The Master by Colm Toibin about?
Beautiful and profoundly moving, The Master tells the story of Henry James, a man born into one of America’s first intellectual families who leaves his country in the late nineteenth century to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers.
Is The Master a book?
The Master is a novel by Irish writer Colm Tóibín.
The Master (novel)
| Book cover of the original hardback English edition | |
| Author | Colm Tóibín |
| Publication date | 2004 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| ISBN | 0-330-43788-7 (hardback edition) |
Why was Henry James called The Master?
James later called Balzac his “greatest master“, and said that he had learned more about the craft of fiction from him than from anyone else.
