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The Coxon Fund

Tells of an early effort to use philanthropy to reward literary excellence. Lady Coxon, a transplanted transcendentalist born in New England circa 1820, gives her titled English husband the idea of setting apart in his will the sum of thirteen thousand pounds to be called the Coxon Fund. The widow is to enjoy the interest for life; if she chooses, she may award it to a person of genius whose penury has previously rendered it impossible for him to bestow the fruits of his learning on society, but who, with the aid of the Coxon Fund, will be able to do so. Lady Coxon becomes terminally ill before she has had a chance to select a candidate, or "catch her hare," as one character puts it. She bequeaths the Coxon Fund and the opportunity to choose the recipient to her niece.

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  • "Tells of an early effort to use philanthropy to reward literary excellence. Lady Coxon, a transplanted transcendentalist born in New England circa 1820, gives her titled English husband the idea of setting apart in his will the sum of thirteen thousand pounds to be called the Coxon Fund. The widow is to enjoy the interest for life; if she chooses, she may award it to a person of genius whose penury has previously rendered it impossible for him to bestow the fruits of his learning on society, but who, with the aid of the Coxon Fund, will be able to do so. Lady Coxon becomes terminally ill before she has had a chance to select a candidate, or "catch her hare," as one character puts it. She bequeaths the Coxon Fund and the opportunity to choose the recipient to her niece."@en
  • "Tortured artist and brilliant conversationalist Frank Saltram has made a splash among the fashionable set in Wimbledon, and all of the society matrons are vying for his favor and lining up to offer their guest rooms to him. But is this self-styled philosopher all that he pretends to be?"@en
  • "The greater the windbag the greater the calamity. Henry James examines one of his favorite topics'the artist's place in society'by profiling a "genius" who just can't seem to support himself. A dazzling intellectual and brilliant speaker, Mr. Saltram has become the most sought-after houseguest in England. But, as his intellectual labors slacken, it beomes harder and harder to get him to leave. A wry, edgy comedy about the fine line between making art...and freeloading. The Coxon Fund shows off a gift that is rarely appreciated about Henry James: he can be wickedly funny. The Art of The Novella Series Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless, it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first time."
  • "The greater the windbag the greater the calamity. Henry James examines one of his favorite topics--the artist;s place in society--by profiling a "genius" who just can't seem to support himself. A dazzling intellectual and brilliant speaker, Mr. Saltram has become the most sought-after houseguest in England. But, as his intellectual labors slacken, it become sharper and harder to get him to leave. A wry, edgy comedy about the fine line between making art ... and freeloading."
  • "The Coxon Fund is a fund endowed by a rich man to be given to a seeker of moral truth, a serious philosopher. Is Frank Saltram, the perpetually amusing and entertaining visitor in the Mulville home, the philosopher for whom this fund is meant? The Coxon Fund was written in 1895."@en

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  • "Adventure fiction"@en
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  • "Fiction"
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  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Lesbian & Gay"@en
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  • "Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)"@en
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  • "El Fondo Coxon"
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  • "The Coxon fund, by Henry James"
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  • "The Coxon fund : by Henry James"@en
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