Henry James
21) The Patagonia
A beautiful American girl, Daisy Miller, is pursued by the sophisticated Winterbourne, who moves in fairly conservative circles. Their courtship is frowned upon by the other Americans they meet in Switzerland and Italy because Daisy is too vivacious and flirtatious and neither belongs to, nor follows the rules of, their society. The novella is a comment on American and European attitudes towards each other and on social and cultural prejudice.
25) Four Meetings
Sometimes, it's not the lingering relationships that stick in our memories, but rather the brief, fleeting encounters. In the brilliant short story Four Meetings, literary master Henry James explores an intense infatuation that ran its entire course in only four meetings.
Although he is regarded as one of the most important figures in American literature on account of his novels and short stories, Henry James was also a prolific writer of letters, sometimes penning as many as three or four in a single day. In this comprehensive volume, letters addressed to family members and literary figures including William Dean Howells and Robert Louis Stevenson are collected, spanning topics from the lofty to the quotidian.
"Retrato de una dama" es una novela icónica escrita por Henry James y publicada por primera vez en 1881. La historia sigue la vida de Isabel Archer, una joven y atractiva americana que hereda una considerable fortuna. Con su nueva independencia económica, Isabel se embarca en un viaje por Europa y se encuentra con una serie de personajes intrigantes y complejos. A medida que la trama avanza, Isabel debe enfrentar decisiones difíciles que afectan
...One of the most famous ghost stories in literature, The Turn of the Screw earned its place in the annals of influential English novellas not for its qualities as a gothic ghost story, but rather for the many complex and subtle ways the reader can come to opposing conclusions as to tale’s very nature. Are the ghosts the governess sees real, or are they figments of her quiet insanity?
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