Henry James - Böcker

En ung guvernant till två föräldralösa barn på det ensliga godset Bly utanför London, accepterar mystiska villkor för sin anställning. Väl på plats möts hon av en stämning av iskall och stirrande övernaturlighet, barnen hon måste skydda samt en tv...

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»Porträtt av en dam är Henry James stora mänskliga mästerverk.« | THE GUARDIAN Isabel Archer avvisar den ene mannen efter den andre. Med arvet efter en rik släkting kan hon uppfylla sin dröm om ett självständigt liv. Hon reser till Italien. I Flor...

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With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Reading. Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for l...

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A chilling collection of Henry James's finest ghost stories, now in a wonderful Clothbound Classics edition 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 ...

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»Porträtt av en dam är Henry James stora mänskliga mästerverk.« | THE GUARDIAN Isabel Archer avvisar den ene mannen efter den andre. Med arvet efter en rik släkting kan hon uppfylla sin dröm om ett självständigt liv. Hon reser till Italien. I Flor...

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Regarded by many as Henry James's finest work, and a lucid tragedy exploring the distance between money and happiness, The Portrait of a Lady contains an introduction by Philip Horne in Penguin Classics. When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited A...

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Skruvens Vridning av Henry James Handlingen i Skruvens Vridning tilldrar sig vid mitten av 1800-talet. i en ödsligt belägen herrgård på den engelska landsbygden. Detta är en spökhistoria i en berättartradition som i anglosaxiska länder kallas goth...

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Introduction and Notes by Ian F.A. Bell, Professor of English Literature, University of Keele. Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, ...

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An unsettling new collection of Henry James's best short stories exploring ghosts and the uncanny 'There had been a moment when I believed I recognised, faint and far, the cry of a child; there had been another when I found myself just consciously...

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Tells the story of Basil Ransom, a bemused and handsome lawyer from the American South who battles with the earnest feminists of Boston for the soul of the beautiful Verena Tarrant, whom he hopes to marry - and whom they hope to recruit to their c...

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The original American in Paris. This dark comedy, seen as one of the masterpieces of James's final period, has all the elements of great writing, brilliant plot and gorgeous setting- An Edwardian gentleman from the States arrives in seedy and soph...

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'One ought to choose something very deliberately, and be faithful to that.' Isabel Archer is a young, intelligent, and spirited American girl, determined to relish her first experience of Europe. She rejects two eligible suitors in her fervent com...

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The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to 'live well', Henry James's The Ambassadors is edited with an introduction and notes by Adrian Poole in Penguin Classics. Concerned that her son Chad may ha...

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James' novel featuring a complex and bizarre battle between two wives - the shy Maggie, who marries an Italian prince, and the prince's former mistress, who marries Maggie's widowed father. Determined to take back her lover, the brilliant Charlott...

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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The place, with its grey sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theatre after the performance-all strewn with crumpled p...

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The Penguin English Library edition of The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James 'She knew of no wrong that he had done; he was not violent, he was not cruel; she simply believed that he hated her' When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, i...

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The Turn of the Screw Henry James - 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 fea...

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In this extraordinary variation on the theme of the eternal triangle, Henry James contrasts two women who love one man: the magnificent but ambitious and unscrupulous Kate Croy, and the fragile heiress Millie Theale whose early death precipitates ...

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An unnamed young governess is sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Yet she is soon oppressed by a sense of foreboding and deep disquiet, becoming convinced that something dark is threatening her young charges. Bu...

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TWO COPS. ONE KILLER. HUNDREDS OF GODS. 21st Century London. The Norman conquest never happened. The ancient tribes of Britain remain undefeated. But murders still have to be solved. The small, mostly unimportant, island of Britain is inhabited by...

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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr Claire Seymour, University of Kent at Canterbury. The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered. Set in a country house, it is a chilling tale of the supernatural told by a...

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This Norton Critical Edition includes: The New York Edition text of the novel-the one that had James's final authority-newly and fully annotated by Jonathan Warren. A full introduction, compositional history and textual notes by Jonathan Warren. R...

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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 wealt...

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'A fast-moving thriller. I was totally absorbed by it' ELLY GRIFFITHS 'Vivid and compelling, with great evocation of the 1980s period' PETER JAMES 'A masterclass in place and landscape' CHRISTIE WATSON PERFECT FOR FANS OF PETER JAMES AND STUART MA...

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Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting materia...

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En ung guvernant till två föräldralösa barn på det ensliga godset Bly utanför London, accepterar mystiska villkor för sin anställning. Väl på plats möts hon av en stämning av iskall och stirrande övernaturlighet, barnen hon måste skydda samt en tv...

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With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury. Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the region which lies between the su...

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