Henry James
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Library of America volume 215
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"This volume, the sixth and final in The Library of America's edition of the complete novels of Henry James, brings together two masterpieces of his extraordinary late period--The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904)--as well as his last extended narrative work, The Outcry (1911), a short comic novel of social manners.
"The idea for The Ambassadors came from James's friend William Dean Howells, who told of having given advice to a friend...
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"In 'The Turn of the Screw, ' one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, a governess becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care. It is accompanied here by several more of the very best of Henry James's short stories, all exploring ghosts and the uncanny."--Amazon.com.
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Otra vuelta de tuerca is one of the most important works of North American literature, and the most famous work by Henry James. The story begins when a governess arrives at the Bly mansion to begin her job of taking care of the two orphaned children who live there. Just like Victorian mansions of classic Gothic literature, this house guards secrets which the governess tries to uncover. This is a quintessential novel of its time, and a true American...
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A young governess is employed to look after two orphaned siblings in a grand country house. Isolated and inexperienced, she is at first charmed by the children but gradually suspects that they may not be as innocent as they seem. She soon begins to see sinister figures at the window, but do they exist solely in her imagination, or are they ghosts intent on a terrible and devastating task? The Turn of the Screw is one of the most famous and eerily...
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A wonderful new collection of Henry James's short stories about Americans in Europe. Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's great heroines: a young, independent American traveling in Europe, whose flouting of social conventions has the potential to lead to catastrophe. Her story is here accompanied by six more riffing on a classic Jamesian theme: the clash between the old world and new, Europe and America. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been...
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"There are many ̀critical' or ̀teaching' editions of Henry James's The Turn of the Screw. Kimberly C. Reed's edition distinguishes itself by including with James's novella other stories and various contemporary documents that highlight James's fictional treatment of the supernatural and the cultural context for it. As a result, this new Broadview edition isn't just a random sample of someone's favourite James short fictions. Instead, it provides...