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Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.' Isabel Archer is a beautiful, intelligent and independent young woman. Brought from America to England by her wealthy Aunt who seeks to further her education and find her niece a husband, Isabel is determined to shape her own future — one that does…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. Revered as one of the greatest ghost stories ever told, James's The Turn of the Screw is an eerie Victorian masterpiece. When an inexperienced governess goes to work at Bly, a country house in Essex to look after a young boy Miles and his sister Flora, all manner of strange events begin to occur. The governess…

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: «A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children given into her charge by their uncle at his grand country house. «The Turn of the Screw» is probably the most famous, certainly the most eerily equivocal, of all ghostly tales. Is it a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 339 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 656) Аннотация: 'One ought to choose something very deliberately, and be faithful to that.' Isabel Archer is a young, intelligent, and spirited American girl, determined to relish her first experience of Europe. She rejects two eligible suitors in her fervent commitment to liberty and independence, declaring that she will never marry. Thanks to the generosity of her devoted cousin Ralph, she is free to make her…

Скачать книгу (размер 442 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 88) Аннотация: When a handsome young man begins to court Catherine Sloper, she feels she is very lucky. She is a quiet, gentle girl, but neither beautiful nor clever; no one had ever admired her before, or come to the front parlour of her home in Washington Square to whisper soft words of love to her. But in New York in the 1840s young ladies are not free to marry where they please. Catherine must have her…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or straightforwardly marvellous and the darker areas of the human psyche. This edition includes all ten of his ghost stories, and as such is…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 177 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 232) Аннотация: A spine-chilling tale of a young governess’s struggle to protect the children in her care from the ghosts of two previous servants. Simple hallucinations perhaps, or external representations of the woman’s inner torments? James’s 19th-century masterpiece of ambiguous narrative is the precursor of the modern psychological thriller.

Скачать книгу (размер 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 56) Аннотация: A young woman comes to a big house to teach two young children. It's her first job and she wants to do it well. But she begins to see strange things the ghosts of dead people. Do the ghosts want the children?

Скачать книгу (размер 483 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 96) Аннотация: Daisy Miller is a beautiful, rich American girl. She comes to Europe with her mother and brother to travel and see the sights. In Switzerland she meets Frederick Winterbourne, a young American who has lived in Europe most of his life. He is fascinated and perplexed by Daisy’s flirtatious and unconventional manners…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) Аннотация: A masterpiece by the great American realist Henry James. Daisy Miller is the story of an innocent girl's love and recognition in a society where respectable behaviour counts for everything.

Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: In the 1840s, a young woman is employed as governess to two children in an English country house. The children are beautiful and charming, and – for a while – the young woman thinks her position is both easy and pleasant. Then she begins to see the ghosts of the former governess Miss Jessel and the manservant Peter Quint...

Скачать книгу (размер 228 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 46) Аннотация: A young woman comes to a big house to teach two young children. It's her first job and she wants to do it well. But she begins to see strange things the ghosts of dead people. Do the ghosts want the children?

Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Eugenia`s wit, guile and sophistication, and Felix`s debonair vivacity form an uneasy alliance with the Puritan morality and the frugal, domestic virtues of the Americans. A rich and delicately balanced comedy of manners, The Europeans weighs the values of the established order against those of New England society, but makes no simple judgements, only subtle contrasts and beautifully observed…

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: A masterpiece by the great American realist Henry James. Daisy Miller is the story of an innocent girl's love and recognition in a society where respectable behaviour counts for everything.

Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Isabel Archer – a young American woman – visits her uncle and his family in England. Her uncle dies and leaves her a large fortune. Isabel was always beautiful and charming: now, in addition, she is rich. The question is, whom will she marry? The English nobleman Lord Warburton? Her American suitor Casper Goodwood? Or the refined and sophisticated Gilbert Osmond, an American art collector living…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 073 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 800) Аннотация: In The Portrait of a Lady Henry James tells the story of one of his most enchanting heroines, Isabel Archer, a young New York woman whose life is changed when she is visited by her aunt Mrs Touchett following the death of her father (her mother having died long before). Isabel is invited to accompany her aunt back to Europe, and fascinates everyone with her beauty, intelligence and vivacity. When…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 300) Аннотация: The Golden Bowl, Henry James' last completed novel, is a story of the union of European class and American money. American millionaire and widower Adam Verver lives with his daughter Maggie in Europe, where they spend their time collecting object d'art and enjoying each other's company. Maggie becomes engaged to the aristocratic but penniless Amerigo, ignorant of the fact that Amerigo had…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: 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 characters on the seedy fringes of the English upper class is conveyed with wit and relish. The…

Скачать книгу (размер 891 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 176) Аннотация: «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. This change is explored through the device of setting the novel's action during the 1840s,…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 441 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 480) Аннотация: 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, the impoverished Italian, Prince Amerigo. The narrative is underpinned by complex symbolism.…