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Surrounded by the artists, writers and musicians who made up her
court in Boston as they did in Venice, Isabella Stewart Gardner, a
passionate art collector, was as revered and sought after as
royalty. Henry James was inspired by the rich and powerful Gardner,
as well as by the Palazzo Barbaro in Venice, when he wrote his
novel The Wings of the Dove. Gardner was to recreate a
larger-than-life version of Palazzo Barbaro in Boston, which is now
the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. These dazzling letters bring
to life James's passion for Venice and the Palazzo Barbaro, and
serve as an introduction to the fascinating world of Isabella
Stewart Gardner herself.
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. Revised and expanded
contextual materials, topically organised to promote classroom
discussion: "James, the Ghost Story, and the Supernatural", "James
on The Turn of the Screw", "Other Possible Sources for The Turn of
the Screw" and, new to the Third Edition, "Adaptations and
Illustrations". Thirty-two critical assessments-from early
reactions to the present day-sixteen of them new to the Third
Edition. A chronology and suggestions for further reading. About
the Series Read by more than 12 million students over fifty-five
years, Norton Critical Editions set the standard for apparatus that
is right for undergraduate readers. The three-part format-annotated
text, contexts and criticism-helps students to better understand,
analyse and appreciate the literature, while opening a wide range
of teaching possibilities for instructors. Whether in print or in
digital format, Norton Critical Editions provide all the resources
students need.
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 playbills.'
Revered as one of the greatest ghost stories ever told, James's The
Turn of the Screw is an eerie Victorian masterpiece. When an
inexperienced governess goes to work at Bly, a country house in
Essex to look after a young boy Miles and his sister Flora, all
manner of strange events begin to occur. The governess spots a
ghostly man and woman around the grounds and is told by the
housekeeper that the valet and previous governess haunt the house.
It soon becomes clear that the children are inexplicably connected
to these ghosts in some way and the young governess struggles to
protect the children, although from exactly what, she is not sure.
Exploring the psychological and sexual fears of an era, this
ambiguous, suspenseful and anxiety-inspiring novella remains one of
Henry James's most well-known tales.
'Heart-swelling in its wholesomeness' - Gina Martin 'A reminder of
the life-changing power of empathy' - Emma Gannon Why are you kind?
Could you be kinder? The kindness we owe one another goes far
beyond everyday gestures like taking out the neighbour's bins -
although it's important not to downplay those small acts. Kindness
can also mean much more. In this timely, insightful guide, Henry
James Garrett lays out the case for developing a strong,
courageous, moral kindness, one that will help you fight cruelty
and make the world a more empathetic place. Building on his
academic studies in metaethics and using his signature sweet animal
cartoons, Henry explores the sources and the limitations of human
empathy and the many ways, big and small, that we can work toward
being our best and kindest selves. A world in which everyone was
the fully-empathetic of version of themselves would be a very kind
world indeed. And that's the world this book will move us toward.
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The Turn of the Screw
Henry James
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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 forces are
stalking the children in her care. But are the children really in
danger - and if so, from whom? The novella is accompanied here by
several more of the very best of Henry James' short stories,
including 'The Jolly Corner' and 'The Third Person', all of which
explore human psychology through ghostly visitations and the
uncanny.
Written by Henry James, Portraits of Places is a record of the
author's reminiscences of his travels in Italy, France, and England
during 1876-1882. Beginning in Venice, James takes the reader on a
journey through Italy to France (Paris, Rheims, Normandy and the
Pyrenees) and England (London, Warwickshire). His finely crafted
word-portraits vividly evoke the less-frequented monuments of
Europe, the abbeys and castles, events and festivals, and the
scenic beauty of London at different times of the year. Also
included are sketches of four scenic locales in North America:
Saratoga, Newport, Quebec, and Niagara. Portraits of Places is a
vintage work by a famous literary figure that memorably captures
scenes of cultural and historical beauty on both sides of the
Atlantic, as observed by an American traveller over a period of six
years.
Developed specifically to assist teachers and students to meet the
requirements of the new CCEA GCE Life and Health Sciences A2
course. First resource to cover this new subject. Covers both the
Single and Double Award courses. Contains numerous diagrams, exam
tips, worked examples and questions, with answers supplied. Book
contents covers the units of the specification subject to external
written examination (Units A2 2, A2 3, A2 4 and A2 5). Authors Nora
Henry and James Napier have written numerous books and will be
well-known to teachers in Northern Ireland.
Season 2 of the popular Haunting of Hill House (Netflix) series
will be based on The Turn of the Screw and is dated to air in
January 2020.
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Tutankhamun (Hardcover)
T G Henry James; Photographs by Araldo De Luca
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On November 04th, 1922, after months of unsuccessful expeditions
and excavations, a young Howard Carter was close to give up his
Egyptian experience in the Valley of the Kings when, unexpectedly,
he and his team discovered one of the most important masterpieces
of the history of archaeology. The intact royal burial palace and
the golden mask of the boy king are probably the most iconic
symbols of Ancient Egypt and this luxury volume will retrace with
never-seen-before pictures the history of those pacey moments.
One of literature's most gripping ghost stories depicts the sinister transformation of two innocent children into flagrant liars and hypocrites. Elegantly told tale of unspoken horror and psychological terror creates what few stories in literature have been able to do-a complete feeling of dread and uncertainty.
Serving as a fascinating delineation of Hawthorne's own literary
and cultural self, this commentary reveals the self-conscious
development of both American and modern culture.
This second volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James,
1887–1888 contains 182 letters, of which 120 are published for
the first time, written from late December 1887 to November 19,
1888. These letters continue to mark Henry James’s ongoing
efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his
professional status, build friendships, engage timely political and
economic issues, and maximize his income. James details work on The
Aspern Papers, The Reverberator, Partial Portraits, and The Tragic
Muse. This volume opens with some of James’s social visits,
includes the death of longtime friend Lizzie Boott, and concludes
with James on the Continent.
Containing letters written between September 2, 1879, and May 14,
1880, this second volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James,
1878-1880 documents the full establishment of Henry James as a
professional writer and critic on both sides of the Atlantic, as
James publishes the novel Confidence and the literary biography
Hawthorne and begins work on Washington Square and The Portrait of
a Lady. James also visits Paris, Florence, Rome, and Naples; begins
his friendship with Constance Fenimore Woolson; and deepens his
attachment to London and to his friends and acquaintances there.
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The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
Henry James; Edited by David Bromwich; Introduction by David Bromwich
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'A most wonderful, lurid, poisonous little tale' Oscar Wilde The
Turn of the Screw, James's great masterpiece of haunting atmosphere
and unbearable tension, tells of a young governess sent to a
country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora.
Unsettled by a dark foreboding of menace within the house, she soon
comes to believe that something, or someone, malevolent is stalking
the children in her care. Is the threat to her young charges really
a malign and ghostly presence, or a manifestation of something else
entirely? Edited and with an Introduction and Notes by David
Bromwich Series Editor: Philip Horne
The "Textual Appendix" includes notes on the novel s textual
history and lists all substantive revisions that James made to the
novel, both in 1902 and in1909. "The Author and the Novel,"
introduced by editorial commentary and new to the Second Edition,
includes selections from James s notebooks, letters, travel books,
and autobiographical writings, which illuminate his conception and
assessment of The Wings of the Dove. "Criticism" reflects the
lively interpretive and theoretical writing that The Wings of the
Dove has enjoyed since the previous edition was published in 1978.
Eleven essays are included, seven of them new to the Second
Edition, including Anthony J. Mazzella s piece on film adaptation.
A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included."
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 of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece. Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama.
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Washington Square (Paperback, New edition)
Henry James; Introduction by Ian F.A. Bell; Notes by Ian F.A. Bell; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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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,
James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and
behaviour in the New York of the 1870's, a period of great change
in the life of the city. This change is explored through the device
of setting the novel's action during the 1840s, similarly a period
of considerable turbulence as the United States experienced the
onset of rapid commercial and industrial expansion. Through the
relationships between Austin Sloper, a celebrated physician, and
his sister Lavinia Penniman, his daughter Catherine, and
Catherine's suitor, Morris Townsend, James observes the
contemporary scene as a site of competing styles and performances
where authentic expression cannot be articulated or is subject to
suppression.
This first volume in The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1887-1888
contains 154 letters, of which 94 are published for the first time,
written from early January to December 22, 1887. These letters mark
Henry James's ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his
work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships, engage
timely political and economic issues, and maximize his income.
James details work on "The Aspern Papers," Partial Portraits, and
plans The Reverberator. This volume opens with James in the midst
of a long sojourn in Italy and concludes with his inquiring about
both the status of his essay to the American Copyright League and
also the story "The Liar."
Recipient of the Approved Edition seal from the Modern Language
Association's Committee on Scholarly Editions This volume of The
Complete Letters of Henry James, 1884-1886 includes 179 letters, 94
published for the first time, written between November 11, 1884,
and December 21, 1885. The letters mark Henry James's ongoing
efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his
professional status, build friendships old and new, and maximize
his income. James details work on midcareer novels The Bostonians
and The Princess Casamassima as well as on tales that would help to
define his career. He reveals his close acquaintance with British
politics and politicians. This volume opens with Alice James's
arrival in England and concludes with Henry James's plans to leave
his flat in Piccadilly for his new address in De Vere Gardens,
Kensington.
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Watch and Ward (Hardcover)
Henry James; Edited by Pierre A. Walker, Jay S. Spina
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The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James
provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer
whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. While
Watch and Ward has long been dismissed as an early apprentice work,
it marks an important stage in James's development as a fiction
writer, building upon the stories he wrote during the late 1860s
and pointing, at the same time, to the works he would write during
the ensuing decade and which would secure his reputation, including
'Daisy Miller', The American and The Portrait of a Lady. Extensive
explanatory notes enable modern readers to understand the novel's
historical, cultural and literary references.
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, is brought to
Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will
soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy her freedom, does not
hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she finds herself
irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond. Charming and cultivated,
Osmond sees Isabel as a rich prize waiting to be taken. In this
portrait of a 'young woman affronting her destiny', Henry James
created one of his most magnificent heroines, and a story of
intense poignancy. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of
the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the
very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.
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