AFFAIRS OF THE HEART: SERIES ONE & TWO [4 DVD Set}



Affairs of the Heart: Classic Tales of Love and Loss Based on the Fiction of Henry James features Diane Rigg, Margaret Tyzack, Pamela Brown, Patricia Routledge, Ian Ogilivy, Anton Rodgers, Jeremy Brett, Derek Jacobi, Eileen Atkins, Sinead Cusack, Edward Harwicke, Cheryl Campbell, David Massey, and Christopher Casenove in 13 hour-long episodes based on Washington Square, “The Marriage,” The Aspern Papers, “Covering End,” Wings of the Dove, “Glasses, “The Tone of Time,” “The Real Thing,” “Lord Beauprey,” An International Episode, “The Beach of Desolation,” Daisy Miller,” “Nona Vincent,” and “The Great Condition.” Acorn Media produced these two sets in an engaging package. If you’re a fan of Henry James, you’ll love these wonderful productions! GRADE: A

17 thoughts on “AFFAIRS OF THE HEART: SERIES ONE & TWO [4 DVD Set}

  1. Steve Oerkfitz

    Never a Henry James fan so these are probably not for me. Instead I’ll continue to binge my way through Peaky Blinders.

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  2. Jeff Meyerson

    Very interesting. I had no idea they’d done these. They’ve done some good adaptations of James on Masterpiece Theatre – The Spoils of Poynton in Season I and The Golden Bowl in Season II come immediately to mind. The less said about The American with Matthew Modine, the better.

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  3. Deb

    As a Henry James fan girl, I’d be interested–but I feel the longer works would suffer from being condensed. My favorite adaptations remain “The Golden Bowl” from the very earliest days of Masterpiece Theater, as Jeff mentions above, and “The Innocents”, an movie adaptation of THE TURN OF THE SCREW, starring my namesake Deborah Kerr. I’d love to see adaptations of “The Real Thing” and “The Beast in the Jungle”–but so much of what happens in those stories is internal, I’m not sure how successful any adaptation would be.

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    1. george Post author

      Deb, your local public library may have copies of AFFAIRS OF THE HEART so you could check out how the BBC handled these Henry James stories. I plan to re-read the stories and then watch these DVDs. I’ll report back when I’m done, probably in August.

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    1. george Post author

      Sergio, I saw these two sets online for very reasonable prices…so I bought them! I plan to reread the stories and then watch the episodes.

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  4. wolf

    Interesting – he’s almost unknown in Germany (though he spoke German and claimed Goethe as an influence – if you follow wiki …) and I don’t remember reading anything from him, though I was an avid reader in my youth – at least two novels a week …

    Wiki is also silent on his private life – never married, just a hint that he was gay? In those days of course that would have been extremely bad for his career …

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    1. george Post author

      Wolf, a lot of critics think Henry James was gay. Yet James wrote about women better than most American writers of the time did.

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  5. Deb

    He was probably gay in the sense that his sexual attraction was primarily toward men, but he was in all likelihood completely celebrate and repressed sexually. Colm Toibin’s THE MASTER does an excellent job of presenting both the public and private sides of James’s life.

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