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63) Madame de Mauves
66) Lo Mejor de Todo
"Cuando después de la muerte de Ashton Doyne -sólo tres meses
después- le hicieron a George Withermore eso que suele llamarse una
proposición, con respecto a un «volumen», la comunicación le llegó
directamente de sus editores, que habían sido también, y la verdad
es que mucho más, los del propio Doyne; pero no le sorprendió
saber, al celebrarse la entrevista que luego le propusieron, que
habían
A young governess arrives at Bly, a country home in Essex, England, to care for Miles and Flora, two precocious and pure children. But as ghostly visions take shape, the obsessively protective governess soon fears for the safety of her wards—only to wonder if these hauntings are a conjuring of her own imagination.
In challenging what we see—and what we believe we see—in the dark of the night, The
...Daisy Miller is a beautiful American girl abroad. Assured, flirtatious, and at odds with reserved European etiquette, she meets two men: Mr. Winterbourne, a world-weary compatriot in full pursuit, and Mr. Giovanelli, a passionate Italian with questionable motives. Unmindful of the scandals she incites and of the risks to her reputation, Daisy believes that she is also impervious to fate.
In Washington Square, New
...One of the final masterpieces from one of the world’s greatest authors, Henry James’s The Ambassadors is now available for the first time in a Modern Library edition, with a new Introduction by acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín. A keenly observed tale of a man’s awakening to life, this dark comic novel follows Lewis Lambert Strether, a middle-aged widower, on a...
71) What Maisie knew
One of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, “affront her destiny.” James began The Portrait of a Lady without a plot or subject, only the slim but provocative notion of a young woman taking control of her fate. The result is a richly imagined study of an American heiress who turns away her suitors in an effort to first establish—and then protect—her
...73) The Bostonians
74) The golden bowl
In The Golden Bowl, an impoverished Italian aristocrat comes to London to marry a wealthy American, but meets an old mistress before the wedding and spends time with her, helping her pick out a wedding gift. After their marriage, his wife maintains a close relationship with her father, and their relationship becomes strained.
Completed in 1904, Henry James himself considered The Golden Bowl one of his best novels, and it
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