The Typewriter's Tale

Michiel Heyns

ISBN 10: 1910449644 / ISBN 13: 9781910449646

Published by Freight Books, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Typewriter's Tale
• Publisher: Freight Books
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1910449644
• ISBN 13: 9781910449646
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 380 grams

About this title

Synopsis

“Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to.”

This is the maxim of celebrated author Henry James and one which his typist Frieda Wroth tries to live up to. Admiring of the great author, she nevertheless feels marginalized and undervalued in her role. But when the dashing Morton Fullerton comes to visit, Frieda finds herself at the center of an intrigue every bit as engrossing as the novels she types, bringing her into conflict with the flamboyant Edith Wharton, and compromising her loyalty to James.

The Typewriter’s Tale by Michiel Heyns is a thought-provoking novel on love, art and life fully lived.

About the Author

Michiel Heyns is Professor Emeritus in English at Stellenbosch University. Author of numerous academic works and radio adaptations of Henry James's and Elizabeth Gaskell's novels, Heyns wrote the chapter on Henry James for the Cambridge Companion to English Novelists. He is winner of the Thomas Pringle Award for journalism 2007, and the Sol Plaatje Award for translation, 2008 and was winner of the Sunday Times Fiction Award 2012 for Lost Ground.