Серия English Fiction Collection состоит из лучших произведений английских и американских авторов. Читая книгу на языке оригинала, вы не только обогатите собственную лекси...
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Генри Джеймс
When Horatio, the son of an English lord, is banished to his father's Irish estate as punishment for gambling debts and dissipated living, he adopts the persona of knight ...
"No one, among American writers, was more contemporary or had a more powerful grasp of American history and American myth," writes Leon Edel of Henry James. This collectio...
James wrote this memoir of his early life as a remembrance following the death of his brother, William. James discusses his youth and his family in the same lush style emp...
Американский писатель Генри Джеймс - признанный классик мировой литературы, пристальный и ироничный наблюдатель жизни, тонкий психолог и мастер стиля.
Мистическая пове...
First published in 1796, Camilla deals with the matrimonial concerns of a group of young people-Camilla Tyrold and her sisters, the daughters of a country parson, and thei...
The Penguin English Library Edition of Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James "I'm a fearful, frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not...
Taking up where Invitation to the Waltz left off, The Weather in the Streets shows us Olivia Curtis ten years older, a failed marriage behind her, thinner, sadder, and app...
This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these...
After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself turned into a 'little feathered shuttlecock' to be swatted back and forth by her selfish mother, Ida,...
The Pupil is the emotional story of a precocious young boy growing up in a mendacious and dishonorable family. He befriends his tutor, who is the only adult in his life th...
When the moon is full at Blandings, strange things happen: among them the painting of a portrait of The Empress, twice in succession winner in the Fat Pigs Class at the Sh...
Восточные страсти, чистые чувства, драматические события и счастливый финал.
Рассказы американского писателя Генри Джеймса, включенные в настоящий сборник, принадлежат к лучшим образцам художественной прозы на английском языке.
Внимательный и ир...
Henry James had arrived at such mastery of the forms and uses of fiction by the time he published The Awkward Age in 1899 that this story of a young girl introduced into a...
A young woman comes to a big house to teach two young children It's her first job and she wants to do it well But she begins to see strange things - the ghosts of dead peo...
Молодая, обаятельная и открытая американка, приехав в Европу, казалось бы, должна была снискать в обществе всеобщее расположение, однако встретила лишь непонимание и отчуж...
Chance is narrated by Conrad's regular narrator, Charles Marlow, but is characterized by a complex, nested narrative in which different narrators take up the story at diff...
"Город, похожий на Алис" — роман, в котором переплетаются любовь и война, приключения и путешествия, а также история успеха. Основанный на реальных событиях, он считается ...
Marian Forrester enchants everyone around her: her husband, an elderly railroad pioneer; the small town of Sweet Water; and Niel Herbert, her unwavering confidant. Yet, he...