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| Christopher Newman, the American, is perceptive enough to understand that his New World has neither included the rituals and traditions of the Old World nor transgressed them. To formalize this... |
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When Frederick, an American expatriate traveling in Europe, meets the commonplace, newly rich Miller family from New York, he is charmed by the daughter, Daisy, and her "inscrutable combination of... |
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| Eugenia, a baroness divorced from a German prince, and her bohemian brother, Felix, are coming back to America. They were raised and cultured in Europe but are now destitute and returning to New... |
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| The reader witnesses in "The Golden Bowl", one of Henry James greatest novels, the pattern of searing loneliness and unendurable punishment and illicit love interwoven to produce a fabric of treachery.... |
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| Oliver Lyon, a famous portrait artist living in London, is invited to Hertfordshire to the estate of Sir David Ashmore where the grand 90-year-old gentleman will sit for his portrait. Lyon arrives to a... |
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"He is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare in the history of poetry." —Graham Greene Henry James wrote with an imperial elegance of style, whether his subjects were American... |
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Spirited, beautiful young American Isabel Archer journeys to Europe to, in modern terms, "find herself." But what she finds there may prove to be her undoing, especially when an infinitely... |
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| Hyacinth Robinson is a hard-working bookbinder whose moral philosophy begins as an inelegant, ill-considered radicalism. He was born of Florentine Viver who murdered her husband, Lord Frederick,... |
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Six classic stories-one volumeThis indispensible anthology collects the short novels of Henry James, offering readers the full range of his skill and vision-the singular art and imagination of an... |
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| One of the greatest intellectual ghost stories begins with friends sitting around a fire on Christmas Eve sharing tales about spooks. A story concerning a governess who believes that her two charges... |
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