Henry James
x{0026}lt;p Henry James (Nueva York, 1843 - Londres, 1916) x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p Nació en una familia acomodada norteamericana, relacionada con artistas y escritores, y ya de muy joven viajó por Europa. Empezó a estudiar Derecho, pero prefirió orientar su carrera hacia la literatura y colaboró asiduamente en la prensa. Es uno de los escritores más importantes y reconocidos de la literatura estadounidense y un gran exponente de la narrativa transatlántica. Trazó relaciones con los grandes escritores de su época, como Edith Wharton, Robert Louis Stevenson, Gustave Flaubert, Iván Turguénev... Supo describir la complejidad de la alta sociedad neoyorquina en su época dorada, con mucha profundidad y un fuerte análisis psicológico de sus protagonistas.x{0026}lt;/p x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;br x{0026}lt;/p
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- Library Of America, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 904 páginas
PVP: 36,00 €
ISBN 978-1-88301-164-2
EAN 9781883011642
Sometimes overshadowed by his work as a novelist, Henry James's short fiction is an astonishing achievement, a triumph of inventiveness and restless curiosity. This Library of America volume (the third of five volumes devoted to his short fiction) includes among its seventeen stories some of James's greatest masterpieces. "The Aspern Papers" is a stunning novella ...
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- Library Of America, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 703 páginas
PVP: 14,45 €
ISBN 978-1-88301-175-8
EAN 9781883011758
Gathers stories and essays prominent in the career of the nineteenth-century American writer.
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- Everyman's Library, 1997
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 544 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-0-679-45512-7
EAN 9780679455127
Introduction by Grey GowrieOf the three late masterpieces that crown the extraordinary literary achievement of Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902) is at once the most personal and the most elemental.James drew on the memory of a beloved cousin who died young to create one of the three central characters, Milly Theale, an ...
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- Library Of America, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 946 páginas
PVP: 36,00 €
ISBN 978-1-883011-10-9
EAN 9781883011109
The thirty-one stories presented here are the culmination of James's glorious final period. Among them are the extraordinary fantasies "The Great Good Place" and "The Jolly Corner," in which supernatural motifs are used hauntingly to express undercurrents of yearning and dislocation; "Julia Bride," a character portrait akin to "Daisy Miller," in which a young American ...
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- Penguin UK, 1995
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043507-8
EAN 9780140435078
'The charm of certain vacant grassy spaces, in Italy, overfrowned by masses of brickwork that are honeycombed by the suns of centuries, is something that I hereby renounce once for all the attempt to express; but you may be sure that whenever I mention such a spot enchantment lurks in it.' - Henry James In ...
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- Penguin UK, 1995
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 27,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043389-0
EAN 9780140433890
'You must paint her just like that ... as the Tragic Muse' Suggests one of James's characters to Nick Dormer, the young Englishman who, during the course of the novel, will courageously resist the glittering Parliamentary career desired for him by his family, in order to paint. His progress is counterpointed by the 'Tragic Muse' ...
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- New Directions, 1995
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PVP: 20,10 €
ISBN 978-0-8112-1279-3
EAN 9780811212793
One of Henry James's most mesmerizing and unusual novels, The Sacred Fount ( 1901) has for its scene a weekend party at the great English country house Newmarch. Here James leads the reader down a bizarre garden path. The Sacred Fount--his only novel to employ a first-person narrator--places us in the hands of an obsessive ...
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- Everyman's Library, 1992
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 596 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-0-679-41733-0
EAN 9780679417330
Maggie Verver, a young American heiress, and her widowed father Adam, lead a life of wealth and refinement in London. They are both getting married: Maggie to Prince Amerigo, an impoverished Italian aristocrat, and Adam to the beautiful but penniless Charlotte Stant, a friend of his daughter. But both father and daughter are unaware that ...
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- Everyman's Library, 1991
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura con sobrecubierta · 626 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-1-85715-039-1
EAN 9781857150391
The Portrait of a Lady is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success ...
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- Penguin UK, 1987
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043297-8
EAN 9780140432978
Companion in theme, period and setting to What Maisie Knew, The Awkward Age is another of Henry James's studies of innocence exposed to corrupting influences. Nanda Brookenham is 'coming out' in London society. Thrust suddenly into the vicious, immoral circle that has gathered round her mother, she even finds herself in competition with Mrs Brookenham ...
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- Penguin UK, 1987
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 608 páginas
PVP: 8,43 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043254-1
EAN 9780140432541
Henry James conceived the character of Hyacinth Robinson - his 'little presumptuous adventurer with his combination of intrinsic fineness and fortuitous adversity' - while walking the streets of London. Brought up in poverty, Hyacinth has nevertheless developed aesthetic tastes that heighten his awareness of the sordid misery around him. He is drawn into the secret ...
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- Penguin UK, 1986
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,40 €
ISBN 978-0-14-043264-0
EAN 9780140432640
'I had but hugged the shore' until Roderick Hudson, wrote Henry James. This is his first full-length novel and executed with such blazing, confident, thirty-one-year-old talent that even if he had produced nothing else, his fame would have been assured. Roderick Hudson, egotistical, beautiful and an exceptionally gifted sculptor, but poor, is taken from New ...
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The first volume in what will eventually be a complete James presents five early novels filled with sparkling dialogue, masterfully timed suspense, and the romance of youthful and artistic aspiration: Watch and Ward, Roderick Hudson, The American, The Europeans, and Confidence. They appear in their original early versions, without the revisions James added in his ...
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- Bantam, 1981
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 403 páginas
PVP: 5,15 €
ISBN 978-0-553-21059-0
EAN 9780553210590
To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other--a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious American girls, obtuse bachelors, sibylline spinsters, and charming Europeans populate these five fascinating "nouvelles, " which represent the author in both his ...
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