id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8206 The Princess Casamassima - Wikipedia .html text/html 1664 172 70 The Princess Casamassima is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1885 and 1886 and then as a book in 1886. But it is often paired with another novel published by James in the same year, The Bostonians, which is also concerned with political issues, though in a much less tragic manner. There Hyacinth meets the radiantly beautiful Princess Casamassima (Christina Light, from James' earlier novel, Roderick Hudson). In his preface to the New York Edition of the novel, James audaciously compared Hyacinth to Hamlet and Lear. The Guardian's review, published in 1887, noted that The Princess Casamassima kept to the promise of Roderick Hudson, which James's other novels had not met. Wikimedia Commons has media related to The Princess Casamassima. Author's preface to the New York Edition version of The Princess Casamassima (1908) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8206.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8206.txt