Author: Henry James
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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Author: Henry James
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Author: Henry James
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191640913
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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'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.

Author: Henry James
Publisher:
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Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Author: Henry James
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 9781883011635
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 966

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Collection of short stories by the author of Daisy Miller and The turn of the screw.

Author: Henry James
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141389788
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 486

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A wonderful new collection of tales exploring Henry James's favourite 'international theme': the experiences of Americans in Europe, and the meeting of the old world and new. Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's great heroines - a young, independent American travelling in Europe, whose flouting of social conventions has the potential to lead to disaster. Her story is here accompanied by six more set among English castles, Swiss hotels and French ports, and all riffing on a classic Jamesian theme: the clash between the old world and new, Europe and America. The tales included in this volume are 'Travelling Companions', 'Madame de Mauves', 'Four Meetings', 'Daisy Miller', 'An International Episode', 'Europe' and 'Fordham Castle', and the collection has been edited by renowned scholar of Anglo-American literature, Stephen Fender, under the general editorship of Philip Horne. This is one of three new volumes of James's greatest tales in Penguin Classics, and is accompanied by The Aspern Papers and Other Tales and The Turn of the Screw and Other Tales (forthcoming).

Author: Henry James
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Author: Bernhard Tauchnitz Verlag
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: Mrs. Molesworth
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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Author: Philip Gilbert Hamerton
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Category : Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 524

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