An inscrutable combination of audacity and innocenceThis unique edition reunites two tales which James intended to be complementary --Daisy Miller and An International Episode. Young Daisy Miller perplexes, amuses, and...Loe edasi...
Theres no baseness I wouldnt commit for Jeffrey Asperns sake.The Aspern Papers is one of Jamess best-known and most accomplished novellas, whose plot foreshadows the modern cult of the writer as celebrity, and...Loe edasi...
One of the most instantly appealing of Jamess early masterpieces, Washington Square is a tale of a trapped daughter and domineering father, a quiet tragedy of money and love and innocence betrayed. Catherine Sloper, heiress to a fortune, at...Loe edasi...
During a trip to Europe, Christopher Newman, a wealthy American businessman, asks the charming Claire de Cintre to be his wife. To his dismay, he receives an icy reception from the heads of her family, who find Newman to be a vulgar example of the A...Loe edasi...
Eugenia, an expatriated American, is the morganatic wife of a German prince, who is about to reject her in favor of a state marriage. With her artist brother Felix Young she travels to Boston to visit relatives she has never before seen, in hopes of...Loe edasi...
Confronting a Bronzino portrait in an English country house, a young American heiress comes face to face with her own predicament. For Milly Theale, who seems to have the world before her and at her feet, is fatally ill. Eager for life, eager for lov...Loe edasi...
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The Awkward Age(1899), written at a time when female emancipation and the double standard were subjects of fierce debate, is the most remarkable example of Jamess dramatic method.l The novel traces the experiences of 18-year-old Nanda B...Loe edasi...
Henry James is one of the giants of American literary history. From the novella Daisy Miller and classic short stories such as The Turn of the Screw to the popular short novel Washington Square and intricately woven and highly complex la...Loe edasi...
From Bostons social underworld emerges Verena Tarrant, a girl with extraordinary oratorical gifts, which she deploys in tawdry meeting-houses on behalf of the sisterhood of women. She acquires two admirers of a very different stamp: Olive Chancell...Loe edasi...
Published in 1904, The Golden Bowl is the last completed novel of Henry James. In it, the widowed American Adam Verver is in Europe with his daughter Maggie. They are rich, finely appreciative of European art and culture, and deeply attached to each...Loe edasi...
Mrs. Gareth, widowed chatelaine of Poynton, is fighting to keep her house with its priceless objets dart from her son Owen and his lovely, utterly philistine fiancee. When she discovers that her young friend and sympathizer Fleda Vetch is secretly i...Loe edasi...
The second of Jamess three late masterpieces, was, in its authors opinion, "the best, all round, of my productions".Lambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular achievements, is dispatched to Paris from the manuf...Loe edasi...
The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and fathers keep changing their partners and names, while she herself becomes the pretext for all sorts of adult sexual intrigue. The nove...Loe edasi...
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When Isabel Archer, a young American with looks, wit, and imagination, arrives in Europe, she sees the world as a place of brightness, full of possibility. Rejecting suitors who offer her wealth and devotion, she follows her own path and finds...Loe edasi...
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Catherine Sloper lives in Washington Square with her widowed father, a wealthy physician. She is plain, shy, and lacks social graces and conversation. Dr. Sloper cannot conceal his disappointment that she has nothing of her dead mothers beauty a...Loe edasi...
Whether viewed as a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease, or simply as the most hopelessly evil story we have ever read, The Turn of the Screw is probably t...Loe edasi...
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This is a unique edition of four high society Victorian comedies, currently enjoying revival on the London stage. The volume includes: Dion Boucicaults London Assurance, W. S. Gilberts Engaged, Edward Bulwer-Lyttons Money, and Henry Jamess The...Loe edasi...
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An unscrupulous critic, determined to get his hands on the private papers of a great poet, finds himself duelling with the grim old lady who was once the poets mistress and muse. Asperns lost world of beauty and romance still seems to hang in the g...Loe edasi...
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Eugenia, an expatriated American, is the morganatic wife of a German prince, who is about to reject her in favor of a state marriage. With her artist brother Felix Young she travels to Boston to visit relatives she has never before seen, in hopes of...Loe edasi...
