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Daisy Miller and Other Stories by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's most attractive heroines: she represents youth and frivolity. As a tourist in Italy, her American freedom and freshness of spirit come up against the corruption and hypocrisy of European manners. From its first publication, readers on both sides of the Atlantic have ...Show more
The Europeans by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
one of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous short stories and novels.
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Henry James's last completed novel, The Golden Bowl, is the story of two flawed marriages. The lives and relationships of Maggie Verver and her widowed American millionaire father, Adam, are changed and challenged by the beautiful and charming Charlotte Stant, who is the former lover of Maggie's husband ...Show more
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
"The Portrait of a Lady" is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the su ...Show more
The Portrait of a Lady (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Portrait of a LadyBy Henry JamesThe Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who, in "confronting her destiny",[1] finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expat ...Show more
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
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Category: Classics
'The apparition had reached the landing half-way up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window where, at the sight of me, it stopped short.' "The Turn of the Screw" tells the story of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil in t ...Show more
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. The Wings of the Dove is a tale of desire and possession, of love and death. It is in essence a simple story, but one that opens up the great subject of art: life itself. To tackle this, James moves between fairytale storylines and the sta ...Show more
Turn of the Screw & The Aspern Papers by Henry James; Keith Carabine (Contribution by); Claire Seymour (Intro and Notes by)
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics Ser.
In these two chilling stories, Henry James shows himself to be a master of haunting atmosphere and unbearable tension. The Turn of the Screw tells of a young governess sent to a country home to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil within the house, she soon b ...Show more
Washington Square by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870's, a period of great change in the life of the city. ...Show more
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The child of parents who divorce, remarry and then embark on adulterous affairs, Maisie Farange survives by her intelligence and spirit. For all its sombre theme of childhood innocence exposed to a corrupted adult world, this novel is one of James's comic masterpieces. The outrageous behaviour of the ch ...Show more
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