Roderick Hudson Author:Henry James Roderick Hudson, energetic, beautiful, a magnificently talented sculptor, but poor, is taken from his provincial New England town to Rome by Rowland Mallet, a rich, passive man, with intentions of giving Roderick scope to develop his genius. Their relationship splets them irredeemably. the stress of mutual attraction and destruction...leading ... more »to final tragedy, the cause of this novel's extraordinary power.« less