In the canon
Roderick Hudson
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1875
- Pages
- Pages 400
In a parlour in Northampton, Massachusetts, a rich and idle man picks up a small bronze of a naked youth drinking from a gourd, and decides within the hour to spend his money and his life on the boy who made it. He takes Roderick Hudson to Rome, buys him marble and leisure and time, and then finds out what he has actually purchased: a front row seat at a burning.
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