Télécharger le livre :  The Portrait of a Lady
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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 commitment to liberty...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-04-09

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Télécharger le livre :  Cathedrals and Castles
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The American Henry James's descriptions of the countryside, monuments, universities, cathedrals, castles, customs and manners of the English are filled with elegant charm and good humour. Here he delights in the hidden corners of ancient Chester streets, marvels at the...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2009-04-02

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Télécharger le livre :  The Bostonians
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The plot of this novel revolves around the feminist movement in Boston in the 1870s. F.R. Leavis called it one of "the two most brilliant novels in the language. "The novel's many allusions to the historical and social background of Boston society are explained in the...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2009-03-26

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Télécharger le livre :  The Spoils of Poynton
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Mrs Gereth, widowed chatelaine of Poynton, is fighting to keep her house with its priceless objets d'art from her son Owen and his lovely, utterly philistine fiancée. When she discovers that her young friend and sympathizer Fleda Vetch is secretly in love with Owen, she...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-09-11

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Télécharger le livre :  The Portrait of a Lady
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'Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry' Graham Greene ...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2008-09-04

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Télécharger le livre :  What Maisie Knew
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What Maisie Knew (1897) represents one of James's finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge, and the question of their finality. The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-08-14

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Télécharger le livre :  The Ambassadors
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Lambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular achievements, is dispatched to Paris from the manufacturing empire of Woollett, Massachusetts. The mission conferred on him by his august patron, Mrs Newsome, is to discover what, or who, is keeping her son...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-08-14

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Télécharger le livre :  The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
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A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master's dissolute...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-04-17

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Télécharger le livre :  The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
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A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master's dissolute...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2008-04-17

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Télécharger le livre :  The Europeans
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one of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous short stories and novels.

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2008-03-27

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Télécharger le livre :  The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories
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The stories in this collection were written mostly between 1888 and 1897, a time when Henry James’s writing was concerned with the art of fiction and the position of the artist in society.The motif and title story, ‘The Figure in the Carpet’, is an inspired joke, a...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2007-12-06

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Télécharger le livre :  Daisy Miller
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Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2007-06-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Washington Square
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When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, decides to put a stop to their romance. Torn between her desire to win her father’s love and approval and her...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2007-06-28

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Télécharger le livre :  The Awkward Age
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Making her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the superficial and immoral circle that surrounds her mother, the innocent but independent-minded young woman even finds herself in competition with Mrs...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-04-27

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Télécharger le livre :  The Princess Casamassima
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The illegitimate and impoverished son of a dressmaker and a nobleman, Hyacinth Robinson has grown up with a strong sense of beauty that heightens his acute sympathy for the inequalities that surround him. Drawn into a secret circle of radical politics he makes a rash...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-04-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Roderick Hudson
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When wealthy Rowland Mallet first sees a sculpture by Roderick Hudson, he is astounded and pronounces it to be a work of genius, and is equally entranced by the sculptor's beauty, spirit and charisma. Wishing to give the impoverished artist the opportunity to develop...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-03-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Spoils of Poynton
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Mrs Gereth is convinced that Fleda Vetch would make the perfect daughter-in-law. Only the dreamy, highly-strung young woman can genuinely appreciate, and perhaps eventually share,Mrs Gereth's passion for her 'things' - the antique treasures she has amassed at Poynton...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2006-02-23

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Télécharger le livre :  The Wings of the Dove
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Beautiful Kate Croy may have been left penniless by her relatives, but her bold, ambitious nature ensures she will not succumb meekly to a life of poverty. If the financial circumstances of Merton Densher, the man she is passionately in love with, are not sufficient to...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2003-06-26

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Télécharger le livre :  The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers
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The Turn of the Screw tells the story of a young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil in the house she soon becomes obsessed with the idea that something malevolent is stalking the children in her care....

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2003-06-26

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Télécharger le livre :  The Portrait of a Lady
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When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2003-01-30

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