The Turn of the Screw A very young woman's first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent children, Miles and Flora, at a forlorn estate... An...
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James' correspondents included presidents and prime ministers, painters and great ladies, actresses and bishops, and the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells and Edith Wharton...
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The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking,...
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Henry James puts the gimlet eye on an actress and a painter, and the passions they arouse among friends and possible lovers. He also finds inspiration in a character suggested by Oscar...
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This handsome hardback anthology brings together 60 of the greatest ghost stories ever written, featuring silent spectres, petrifying phantoms and all manner of ghastly ghosts. Whether...
Illustrated edition: This edition includes detailed illustrations, a comprehensive summary, an author biography, and a list of characters. The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is a...
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"This admirable new and expanded Norton Critical Edition, with its judiciously selected and expertly curated secondary materials, both historical and critical, and accompanied by Jonathan...
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A new edition of the classic novel, first published in 1903. A dark comedy following Lewis Lambert Strether as he endeavours to bring Chad Newsome back to the family business...
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Život ju nesmierne fascinoval, neustále pozorovala okolie a rozmýšľala. Počas jedného ospalého leta príde do Anglicka Američanka a všetkých prebudí zo spánku – Isabel Archerová je zaujímavá...
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'The charm of certain vacant grassy spaces, in Italy, overfrowned by masses of brickwork that are honeycombed by the suns of centuries, is something that I hereby renounce once...
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Език: Английски език, Корици: С меки корици, Брой страници: 384, Издателство: Penguin Classics, Автор: Henry James, John F. Sears, ISBN-13: 9780140434163, Дата на издаване: 1994...
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In 'The Turn of the Screw', one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, a governess becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children...
When wealthy Rowland Mallet first sees a sculpture by Roderick Hudson, he is astounded and pronounces it to be a work of genius, and is equally entranced by the sculptor's beauty,...
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Washington Square follows the coming-of-age of its plain-faced, kindhearted heroine, Catherine Sloper. Much to her father' s vexation, a handsome opportunist named Morris Townsend...
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One of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, "affront her destiny. " James began "The...
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An elegant collector's edition of Henry James' most accomplished novel with an introduction by award-winning novelist Colm Toibin...
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Introduction by Colm Toibin One of the final masterpieces from one of the world's greatest authors, Henry James's "The Ambassadors" is now available for the first time in...
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"Hier erreicht James' Können seinen Höhepunkt an Raffinement, auch im Sprachlichen. " Die Rheinpfalz §...
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This is a wonderful new selection of Henry James' short stories exploring the relationship between art and life, edited by Michael Gorra. This volume gathers seven of the very...
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Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her aunt, the beautiful and financially ambitious Kate Croy is already romantically involved...
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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 enjoy her freedom,...
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This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James. 'She knew of no wrong that he had done; he was not violent, he was not cruel; she simply...
Maggie Verver, an American heiress, and her widowed father Adam, lead a life of wealth and refinement in London. They are both getting married: Maggie to Prince Amerigo, and Adam to...
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Mrs Gareth, widowed chatelaine of Poynton, is fighting to keep her house with its priceless objets d'art from her son Owen and his lovely, utterly philistine fiancee. When she...
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Eugenia, Baroness M"nster, wife of a German princeling who wishes to be rid of her, crosses the ocean with her brother Felix to seek out their American relatives. Their voyage is prompted,...
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