Henry James

Scintillating, searing and cutting by the master of the novel. A classic for all time

'an inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence' Young Daisy Miller perplexes, amuses, and charms her stiff but susceptible fellow-American, Frederick Winterbourne. Is she innocent or corrupt? Has he lived too long in Europe to judge her properly? Amid the romantic scenery of Lake Geneva and Rome, their lively, precarious relationship develops to a climax in the Colosseum at midnight. The tale gave James his first popular success, yet some compatriots detected treachery in its portrayal of young American womanhood. James responded with 'An International Episode', which exposes a couple of English gentlemen to the charm and wit of American sisters in Newport, RI and then in London. Independently read, these short masterpieces probe the manners and morals of a newly emergent transatlantic world. Together they shed light on each other, demonstrating the range of James's own manners, from sharp satire and buoyant comedy to complex, perhaps even tragic, pathos. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Lo que Maisie sab a gira en torno a la vida de una ni a cuyos padres acaban de divorciarse y a los que se les impone la custodia repartida de la hija; lo que acontece es un reparto con reminiscencias salom nicas. Maisie rebota de casa en casa cada seis meses primero para, despu s, no s lo tener dos padres (separados) sino cuatro (en permanente uni n y desuni n). Entre madre, padre, madrastra, padrastro, institutrices y ni eras Maisie trata de aprender a sentir lo que es un hogar y una familia. Lo que Maisie sab a fue definida por Jorge Luis Borges como una horrible historia de adulterio narrada a trav s de los ojos de una ni a que no est capacitada para entenderla, y podr a calificarse como un ins lito cruce entre Alicia y Lolita. Una delicia para los amantes de James. Un descubrimiento para los que no se hayan acercado demasiado a su obra.

Una magistral novela de Henry James en que se analizan con consumada exquisitez los sentimientos que desata una intensa pasi n amorosa. Un joven caballero recibe de una amiga el encargo de aliviar en su penuria a una dama americana, madame de Mauves, reci n casada con un franc s. La amistad entre ambos desemboca en el enamoramiento del joven, que intenta desvelar los secretos del matrimonio de la dama. Una novela de complejidad psicol gica. Un cl sico al estilo de James.

Noveleta de Henry James escrita a principios de siglo. El estilo de James prefiere el drama interno y psicol gico, y es un tema habitual suyo la alienaci n. Sus primeros trabajos son considerados realistas, pero de hecho durante su larga carrera literaria mantuvo un gran inter s en una variedad de movimientos art sticos.

Georgina's reasons Henry James Henry James's 1884 tale "Georgina's Reasons" presents readers with an insoluble hermeneutic problem regarding its heroine's motivation. This essay applies four interpretative frameworks - theological, political, scientific and geographical - to the question of the heroine's "reasons." Each way of interpreting the story aligns with a genre of nineteenth-century fiction: sensation novel, New Woman novel, naturalism and the international tale. The problem of the heroine's motivation thus provides an occasion for consideration of the stylistic choices available to James in the mid-1880s, and of the capacities and limitations of each style for developing his chosen subject - a woman whose unconventional and destructive behaviour defies rational understanding. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

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American author Henry James is regarded as one of the foremost figures in the genre that some critics call "trans-Atlantic" literature. His fiction often explores the tension between traditional European values and the brash, assertive national character of America. This epistolary novella captures the impressions of American visitors in Europe in a series of letters. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to bringing to the forefront the amazing works of long dead and truly talented authors.

It was always rather quiet at Cocker's while the contingent from Ladle's and Thrupp's and all the other great places were at luncheon, or, as the young men used vulgarly to say, while the animals were feeding. She had forty minutes in advance of this to go home for her own dinner; and when she came back and one of the young men took his turn there was often half an hour during which she could pull out a bit of work or a book-a book from the place where she borrowed novels, very greasy, in fine print and all about fine folks, at a ha'penny a day. This sacred pause was one of the numerous ways in which the establishment kept its finger on the pulse of fashion and fell into the rhythm of the larger life. It had something to do, one day, with the particular flare of importance of an arriving customer, a lady whose meals were apparently irregular, yet whom she was destined, she afterwards found, not to forget. The girl was blas e; nothing could belong more, as she perfectly knew, to the intense publicity of her profession; but she had a whimsical mind and wonderful nerves; she was subject, in short, to sudden flickers of antipathy and sympathy, red gleams in the grey, fitful needs to notice and to "care," odd caprices of curiosity. She had a friend who had invented a new career for women-that of being in and out of people's houses to look after the flowers.

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Book Excerpt: ...s, dressed in white flannel and carrying a large fan. "Well, my dear, have you decided?" his mother continued with no scant irony. "He hasn't yet made up his mind, and we sail at ten o'clock ""What does it matter when my things are put up?" the young man said. "There's no crowd at this moment; there will be cabins to spare. I'm waiting for a telegram--that will settle it. I just walked up to the club to see if it was come--they'll send it there because they suppose this house unoccupied. Not yet, but I shall go back in twenty minutes.""Mercy, how you rush about in this temperature " the poor lady exclaimed while I reflected that it was perhaps HIS billiard-balls I had heard ten minutes before. I was sure he was fond of billiards." Rush? not in the least. I take it uncommon easy.""Ah I'm bound to say you do " Mrs. Nettlepoint returned with inconsequence. I guessed at a certain tension between the pair and a want of consideration on the young man's part, arising perhaps from selfi..

The Outcry Henry James hould think 'that, ' for an ardent lover, would have been enough." "Ah, but it's all one Job I mean it's one idea," he hastened to explain--"if you think Lady Imber's really acting on her." "Mightn't you go and see?" "I would in a moment if I hadn't to look out for another matter too." And he renewed his attention to his watch. "I mean getting straight at my American, the party I just mentioned------" But she had already taken him up. "You too have an American and a 'party, ' and yours also motors down----?" "Mr. Breckenridge Bender." Lord John named him with a shade of elation. She gaped at the fuller light "You know my Breckenridge?--who I hoped was coming for me " Lord John as freely, but more gaily, wondered. "Had he told you so?" She held out, opened, the telegram she had kept folded in her hand since her entrance. "He has sent me that--which, delivered to me ten minutes ago out there, has brought me in to receive him." The young man We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.