Henry James

Great American Short Novels is a collection of some of the most celebrated works of Herman Melville, one of the most prominent American authors of the 19th century. The book includes five of Melville's most famous short novels, including Bartleby, The Scrivener, Benito Cereno, Billy Budd, Sailor, The Piazza Tales, and The Encantadas. Each of these works is a masterpiece in its own right, exploring themes of morality, justice, and the human condition. Bartleby, The Scrivener is a haunting tale of a copyist who refuses to work, while Benito Cereno is a gripping story of a slave revolt on a ship. Billy Budd, Sailor is a tragic tale of a young sailor who is falsely accused of mutiny, and The Piazza Tales is a collection of short stories that showcase Melville's skill as a storyteller. The Encantadas is a series of sketches that describe the Galapagos Islands in vivid detail, providing a glimpse into Melville's fascination with nature and the natural world. Overall, Great American Short Novels is a must-read for anyone interested in American literature and the works of one of its most important authors. Melville's prose is masterful, his characters are complex and compelling, and his stories are timeless classics that continue to resonate with readers today. This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

La se orita Annie P. Miller aparece en Vevey, Suiza, con su madre y su hermano. Su padre, opulento y tosco nuevo rico, quiere pulirla y europeizarla. Daisy, como es llamada, conoce a un refinado joven norteamericano llamado Winterbourne, que se interesa por ella, desconcertado por su desenfado y su coqueta falta de tacto. Se vuelven a ver en Roma y l trata de corregir la conducta de Daisy, sobre todo cuando comienza a coquetear p blicamente con un italiano de poca clase llamado Giovanelli. Esto lleva a que la colonia norteamericana en Roma la condene al ostracismo. Daisy muere de unas fiebres contra das en plena noche romana a solas con Giovanelli, y sus ltimas palabras fueron un recado para Winterbourne: "Decidle que jam s me promet a Giovanelli", como una invitaci n casi p stuma a largo noviazgo de ultratumba. Toda la tensi n de amor y recelo entre Daisy y Winterbourne se debieron exclusivamente a un desajuste social.

The Turn of the Screw, originally published in 1898, is a ghost story novella written by Henry James. Due to its ambiguous content, it became a favourite text of academics who subscribe to New Criticism. The novella has had differing interpretations, often mutually exclusive. Many critics have tried to determine the exact nature of the evil hinted at by the story. However, others have argued that the true brilliance of the novella comes with its ability to create an intimate confusion and suspense for the reader. Major themes Throughout his career James was attracted to the ghost story genre. However, he was not fond of literature's stereotypical ghosts, the old-fashioned 'screamers' and 'slashers'. Rather, he preferred to create ghosts that were eerie extensions of everyday reality-"the strange and sinister embroidered on the very type of the normal and easy," as he put it in the New York Edition preface to his final ghost story, "The Jolly Corner". The Turn of the Screw is no exception to this formula. In fact, some have wondered if he didn't intend the "strange and sinister" to be embroidered only on the governess's mind and not on objective reality. The result has been a long-standing critical dispute about the reality of the ghosts and the sanity of the governess. Beyond the dispute, critics have closely examined James's narrative technique for the story. The framing introduction and subsequent first-person narrative by the governess have been studied by theorists of fiction interested in the power of fictional narratives to convince or even manipulate readers. The imagery of The Turn of the Screw is reminiscent of the gothic genre. The emphasis on old and mysterious buildings throughout the novella reinforces this motif. James also relates the amount of light present in various scenes to the strength of the supernatural or ghostly forces apparently at work. The governess refers directly to The Mysteries of Udolpho and indirectly to Jane Eyre, evoking a comparison of the governess not only to Jane Eyre's protagonist, but to Bertha, the madwoman confined in Thornfield.

The twelve years that followed were not the happiest or most brilliant phase of Hawthorne's life; they strike me indeed as having had an altogether peculiar dreariness. They had their uses; they were the period of incubation of the admirable compositions which eventually brought him reputation and prosperity. But of their actual aridity the young man must have had a painful consciousness; he never lost the impression of it. Mr. Lathrop quotes a phrase to this effect from one of his letters, late in life. "I am disposed to thank God for the gloom and chill of my early life, in the hope that my share of adversity came then, when I bore it alone."

An old lady, in a high drawing-room, had had her chair moved close to the fire, where she sat knitting and warming her knees. She was dressed in deep mourning; her face had a faded nobleness, tempered, however, by the somewhat illiberal compression assumed by her lips in obedience to something that was passing in her mind. She was far from the lamp, but though her eyes were fixed upon her active needles she was not looking at them. What she really saw was quite another train of affairs. The room was spacious and dim; the thick London fog had oozed into it even through its superior defences. It was full of dusky, massive, valuable things. The old lady sat motionless save for the regularity of her clicking needles, which seemed as personal to her and as expressive as prolonged fingers. If she was thinking something out, she was thinking it thoroughly.