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The story has to do not only with Roderick's growth as an artist and the problems it brings, but also as a man susceptible to his new environment, and indeed his occasional rivalries with his American friend and patron.Interestingly enough, at least two of the book's characters made sufficient impression on James that he brought them back in other books: the French-Italian-Yankee sculptor, Gloriani, who appears later in The American, and Christina Light, the American who becomes the subject of Princess Casamassima, one of James's later (and much longer) novels.(Introduction by Nicholas Clifford)]]></itunes:summary><itunes:category text="Arts"><itunes:category text="Books"/></itunes:category><itunes:category text="Fiction"/><itunes:category text="Fiction"><itunes:category text="Drama"/></itunes:category><itunes:explicit>false</itunes:explicit><podcast:guid>733bba69-77db-58e1-bce5-e410516c4c0d</podcast:guid><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><item><title>Secrets of Dr. Taverner-Dion Fortune</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/secrets-of-dr-taverner-dion-fortune--74394441</link><description><![CDATA[Published as a serial in 1875, Roderick Hudson is James's first important novel. 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