• The Death of the Lion by Henry James — Nile Book Store cover
1 1

Henry James

The Death of the Lion — Henry James

The Death of the Lion — Henry James

$0.99 USD
$0.99 USD
Sale Sold out
EPUB + Audiobook Instant Download English
Two formats included—EPUB + audiobook. No physical item will be shipped.

Download instructions for the EPUB and audiobook are supplied after checkout. Listen to the free audio preview where available.

Title
Secure payment · Instant download after checkout · No account required
Read a sample
“I had simply, I suppose, a change of heart, and it must have begun when I received my manuscript back from Mr. Pinhorn. Mr. Pinhorn was my ‘chief,’ as he was called in the office: he had the high mission of bringing the paper up.”

Listen to the audiobook preview

A sharp, darkly comic satire about what happens when literary fame becomes more important than literature.

Young journalist Neil Paraday sets out to celebrate an overlooked author—and helps turn him into the fashionable “lion” of the season. Soon the writer is surrounded by admirers who want his presence, his name, and his prestige, but scarcely his books. Henry James’s witty 1894 tale feels uncannily modern in its portrait of publicity, celebrity, and the cost of constant attention.

Chapter I, read by Jacquerie. Complete public-domain audiobook included.

What you receive

Publication-ready English EPUB plus the complete 10-chapter MP3 audiobook (running time 1:41:09), delivered digitally.

Author: Henry James
First published: 1894
Genres: Literary fiction, satire, black comedy
Language: English
Edition: Nile Book Store digital edition
Source status: Public domain in the United States

Text verified against Project Gutenberg eBook #643. Audio from LibriVox. The source edition contains no substantive interior illustrations.

View full details