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Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: Did she know and if she knew would she speak? The story of an unsolved literary mystery that explores what James referred to as troubled artistic consciousness. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a…

Скачать книгу (размер 4 400 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 864) Аннотация: Six of the very best Henry James classics. This classic collection includes the British author's most influential works, from The Portrait of a Lady to the Aspern Papers. Part of a beautiful series of classic fiction, this title brings Henry James back to life and reminds the world just what a wonderful writer he was. Featuring Daisy Miller, Washington Square and The Bostonians, this is a…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 543 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 500) Аннотация: HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Christopher Newman is an American expatriate in Paris; his fortune made, he has moved to the Old World to enjoy his wealth and find a wife. Newman soon falls for a young widow, the aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde, but his brash New World sensibility horrifies her haughty family. Though the family oppose…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 238 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 244) Аннотация: I'm a fearful, frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not? This edition contains two of Henry James's most popular short works. Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: She knew of no wrong that he had done; he was not violent, he was not cruel; she simply believed that he hated her. 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, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she finds herself irresistibly drawn…

Скачать книгу (размер 565 Kb , формат fb2) 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 361 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 72) Аннотация: 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?

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each other. Maisie — solitary, observant and wise beyond her years — is drawn into an increasingly entangled adult world of intrigue and sexual betrayal, until she is finally compelled to choose her own future. What Maisie Knew is a…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 789 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 352) Аннотация: The tale of Daisy's irruption into staid European society enjoyed, as did Daisy herself, a success de scandale; and it has remained one of Jamess most popular short stories. Like the others collected here 'Pandora', 'The Patagonia', and 'Four Meetings' it describes a confrontation between different values in a changing world. Is the new independent American girl enchanting in her spontaneity,…

Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: A rich American art-collector and his daughter Maggie buy in for themselves and to their greater glory a beautiful young wife and a noble husband. They do not know that Charlotte and Prince Amerigo were formerly lovers, nor that on the eve of the Prince's marriage they had discovered, in a Bloomsbury antique shop, a golden bowl with a secret flaw. When the golden bowl is broken, Maggie must leave…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: The plot of this novel revolves around the feminist movement in Boston in the 1870s. F.R. Leavis called it one of the two most brilliant novels in the language. The novel's many allusions to the historical and social background of Boston society are explained in the editorial material.

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: 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 startlingly modern techniques of his testing late style. An unspeakable subtext lies beneath the silence. Distinct points of view and different centres of…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: You you a nun; you with your beauty defaced and your nature wasted you behind locks and bars! Never, never, if I can prevent it! A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete. In Paris Christopher Newman is introduced to Claire de Cintre, daughter of the ancient House of Bellegarde, and to Valentin, her charming young brother. His bid for…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: 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, apparently, by natural affection; but the Baroness has also come to seek her fortune. The advent of these visitors is viewed by the Wentworths, in the suburbs of Boston, with wonder and some apprehension. The…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 432) Аннотация: 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 James's dramatic method. The novel traces the experiences of 18-year-old Nanda Brookenham, exposed to corruption in the salon of her youthful, modern mother, who, in maintaining a circle where talk is shockingly sophisticated, must sacrifice…

Скачать книгу (размер 320 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 64) Аннотация: «Daisy Miller» is a fascinating portrait of a young woman from Schenectady, New York, who, traveling in Europe, runs afoul of the socially pretentious American expatriate community in Rome. First published in 1878, the novella brought American novelist Henry James (1843-1916), then living in London, his first international success. Like many of James`s early works, it portrays a venturesome…

Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: When Chadwick Newsome, a young American favoured with fortune and independence, becomes entangled in a liaison dangereux with a Parisian temptress, his overbearing mother deploys her future husband, the elderly, amiable Strether, as an ambassador to engineer his safe return. But seduced by the ambient charms of Paris and the bewitching comtesse de Vionnet, Strether soon deserts to Chadwick's…

Скачать книгу (размер 1 707 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 336) Аннотация: A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncles at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master's dissolute valet, and he has come for little Miles. But Peter Quint is dead. Like the other tales collected here — Sir Edmund Orme, Owen…

Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Helbling Readers Blue Series is designed for teenagers and young adults. Readers can choose from sensitively adapted teen-relevant classics and a gripping selection of original fiction.

Скачать книгу (размер 1 870 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 368) Аннотация: About this book: 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 'appacitional' stories, or ghost stories in the strict sense of the term, and as such is the…