A Little Tour in France is a book of travel writing by Henry James. Originally published under the title En Province in 1883–1884 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, the book recounts a six-week tour James made of many provincial towns in France, including Tours, Bourges, Nantes, Toulouse, Arles and several others. The first book publication was in 1884. A second, extensively...
Delphi Classics. 2013. — 18377 p.
Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American writer. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He is best known for a number of novels showing Americans encountering Europe and Europeans. His method of writing from a character's point of view allowed him to explore issues related to...
A Glassbook Classic. 80 pages.
Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James first appearing in Cornhill Magazine in Jun-July 1879, and in book form the following year. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot of hers. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the...
From a 1921 edition. 738 pages.
The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant, a pretty,...
NYRB Classics, 2005. — 592 p. — (New York Review Books Classics). — ISBN10: 9781590171622; ISBN13: 978-1590171622. Henry James led a wandering life, which took him far from his native shores, but he continued to think of New York City, where his family had settled for several years during his childhood, as his hometown. Here Colm Tóibín, the author of the Man Booker...
2011 by Collector's Library. 795 pages. The Portrait of a Lady provides an excellent introduction to the subtle, refined, and complex world of Henry James. James delved deeper than any author before or since into the hidden worlds of his characters, in order to explore the toils and delights of their inner lives. In The Portrait of a Lady, James tells the story of one of his...
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. She then finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond, who, beneath his veneer of charm and cultivation, is cruelty itself. A...
120 pages. A young woman arrives at a large country house. Her job is to look after the two children who live there, but she soon discovers that there is something very strange about both the house and the children. The longer she stays, the more she feels that the two children are in danger - or is it that the children are the danger, and the person in danger is herself?
"Вашингтонская площадь" - обманчиво простая трагикомедия, рассказывающая о конфликте отца и дочери. Овдовевший отец считает свою двадцатилетнюю дочь скучной и непривлекательной, и когда за ней начинает ухаживать красивый, блестящий и обаятельный, но промотавшийся бездельник, уверен, что тот хочет жениться на деньгах, а дочь влюблена и хочет замуж. Этот роман сравнивали с романами...
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