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El arte de la ficción consta de 3 artículos, el primero de Besant en el que imparte una conferencia que fue muy comentada por la prensa. Con la autoridad de un experimentado escritor, Besant ofrece al eventual aprendiz una serie de reglas practicas del buen novelar. El segundo y central capitulo de este "arte de la ficcion" se debe a Henry James. En el replica a Besant en sus mismos terminos y con el mismo titulo de su disertacion. Para James la ficcion ha de burlarse de los preceptos, emplearlos en su beneficio mientras le sean utiles y desecharlos cuando le estorben. El tercer capitulo se debe a Stevenson y este con insolente ironia le da a su contrarreplica el titulo de "una humilde amonestacion". Su alegato esgrime el arma punzante del sentido comun. Para el la ficcion es un elemento que esta en todas las artes salvo la arquitectura.

Contents:Pyramus And ThisbeStill WatersA Change of HeartDaisy MillerTenantsDisengagedThe AlbumThe ReprobateGuy DomvilleSummersoftThe High BidThe Outcry

Contents:Pyramus And ThisbeStill WatersA Change of HeartDaisy MillerTenantsDisengagedThe AlbumThe ReprobateGuy DomvilleSummersoftThe High BidThe Outcry

In this most popular of Henry James's works he created one of his most delightful heroines - honest, fresh, ope, flirtatious - and placed her in a society that looked on her with horror.

An American heiress newly arrived in Europe, Isabel Archer does not look to a man to furnish her with her destiny; instead she desires, with grace and courage, to find it herself. Two eligible suitors approach her and are refused. She then becomes utterly captivated by the languid charms of Gilbert Osmond. To him, she represents a superior prize worth at least seventy thousand pounds; through him, she faces a tragic choice.

Set in the countryside around Boston in the mid-nineteenth century The Europeans is concerned with the effect of Old World experience on New World innocence. Feckless, charming Felix and his sister Eugenia, the Baroness Münster, descend on their well-to-do, God-fearing New England cousins, the Wentworths, and both parties are confronted by an attitude of life beyond their experience or faith.

Contents:Pyramus And ThisbeStill WatersA Change of HeartDaisy MillerTenantsDisengagedThe AlbumThe ReprobateGuy DomvilleSummersoftThe High BidThe Outcry

Caught in the crossfire of her parents' acrimonious divorce, witness to their battles, intrigues and affairs, neglected and exploited, Maisie is a child who knows too much about the world of adults. James's portrait of a little girl who maintains her goodness and dignity in the face of the bitterness and profligacy of her warring parents is inspiring.

Reunidos por primera vez en español, Londres recoge los textos que el autor americano dedicó a la capital británica, . Con un estilo inimitable y la precisión de un fino observador, James desliza su

The narrator is a young governess, sent off to a country house to take charge of two orphaned children. She finds a pleasant house and a comfortable housekeeper, while the children are beautiful and charming. But she soon begins to feel the presence of intense evil.

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Lo que Maisie sabía fue definida por Jorge Luis Borges como una horrible historia de adulterio narrada a través de los ojos de una niña que no está capacitada para entenderla, y podría calificarse como un insolito cruce entre Alicia y Lolita.Lo que Maisie sabia gira en torno a la vida de una niña (Maisie) cuyos padres acaban de divorciarse y a los que se les impone la custodia repartida de la hija; lo que acontece es un reparto con reminiscencias salomonicas. Maisie rebota de casa en casa cada seis meses primero para, despues, no solo tener dos padres sino cuatro. Entre madre, padre, madrastra, padrastro, institutrices y niñeras Maisie trata de aprender a sentir lo que es un hogar y una familia. Lo que Maisie sabia fue definida como una horrible historia de adulterio narrada a traves de los ojos de una niña que no esta capacitada para entenderla, y podria calificarse como un insolito cruce entre Alicia y Lolita. Una delicia para los amantes de James. Un descubrimiento para los que no se hayan acercado demasiado a su obra.

A Little Tour in France is a book of travel writing by Henry James. Originally published under the title En Province in 18831884 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, the book recounts a six-week tour James made of many provincial towns in France, including Tours, Bourges, Nantes, Toulouse, Arles and several others. The first book publication was in 1884. A second, extensively revised edition was published in 1900. James gives the idea for the book in the first paragraph of the first installment of the original magazine serial: "France may be Paris, but Paris is not France." He conceived the book as a description of and even homage to the provinces. James had tried living in Paris before settling in London in 1876. He returned to France in 1882 to discover more of French provincial life than he had previously been able to see.

This volume collects the complete writings of Henry James: 23 novels, 112 stories and novellas, 12 plays, 6 books with travelogues, 10 with critical essays and 3 autobiographies.Contents:THE NOVELSWatch and Ward, Roderick Hudson, The American, The Europeans, Confidence, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Reverberator, The Tragic Muse, The Other House, The Spoils of Poynton, What Maisie Knew, The Awkward Age, The Sacred Fount, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, The Outcry, The Whole Family, The Ivory Tower, The Sense of the PastTHE TALESA Tragedy of Error, The Story of a Year, A Landscape-Painter, A Day of Days, My Friend Bingham, Poor Richard, The Story of a Masterpiece, The Romance of Certain Old Clothes, A Most Extraordinary Case, A Problem, etc.THE PLAYSPyramus And Thisbe, Still Waters, A Change of Heart, Daisy Miller, Tenants, Disengaged, The Album, The Reprobate, Guy Domville, Summersoft, The High Bid, The OutcryTHE TRAVEL WRITINGTransatlantic Sketches, Portraits of Places, A Little Tour in France, English Hours, The American Scene, Italian HoursTHE CRITICISMFrench Novelists and Poets, Hawthorne, Partial Portraits, Essays in London and Elsewhere, Picture and Text, Views and Reviews, Notes on Novelists, Within the Rim and Other Essays, Notes and Reviews, The Art of the NovelTHE AUTOBIOGRAPHIESA Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother, The Middle Years

Neil Paraday es un escritor inglés de salud muy deteriorada que, tras su ascenso tardío a una posición de celebridad, es engullido por la aspiración y el deseo de la alta sociedad de codearse con una figura intelectual. Lo convierten en objeto de culto sin molestarse siquiera en conocer su obra. El escritor cuenta, como fiel aliado, con un joven periodista tan avido de protegerlo como incapaz de oponerse al torrente que lo avasalla. Entre estas dos fuerzas se situa Paraday, el escritor-hombre, que experimenta la ineluctabilidad del destino y a traves del cual Henry James reflexiona sobre el oficio de escritor. Cuando conozcan a un genio tan brillante, evitenle el terrible deber de ser tambien una personalidad.

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to say that it was the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child. The case, I may mention, was that of an apparition in just such an old house as had gathered us for the occasionan appearance, of a dreadful kind, to a little boy sleeping in the room with his mother and waking her up in the terror of it; waking her not to dissipate his dread and soothe him to sleep again, but to encounter also, herself, before she had succeeded in doing so, the same sight that had shaken him. It was this observation that drew from Douglasnot immediately, but later in the eveninga reply that had the interesting consequence to which I call attention. Someone else told a story not particularly effective, which I saw he was not following. This I took for a sign that he had himself something to produce and that we should only have to wait. We waited in fact till two nights later; but that same evening, before we scattered, he brought out what was in his mind.

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