Dictation
Subtitle: A Quartet
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: April 16, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780547054001
Subjects: Non-Classifiable; Fiction / Literary; General; Fiction
Description: Four stories of comedy, deception, and revenge (including one previously unpublished) showcases heroes who suffer from willful self-deceit. These not-so-innocents proceed from self-deception to deceiving others, who do not take it lightly. The novella "Dictation" imagines a fateful meeting between the secretaries to Henry James and Joseph Conrad at the peak of their fame. Timid Miss Hallowes, who types for Conrad, comes under the influence of James's Miss Bosanquet, high-spirited, flirtatious, and scheming. In a masterstroke of genius, Ozick hatches a plot between them to insert themselves into posterity.--From publisher description.