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La joven Catherine, poco agraciada y sin pretendientes, es hija del prestigioso y déspota médico Austin Sloper, quien la desprecia sin reparos. Un día Catherine conoce a Morris Townsend, un caza fortunas sin escrupulos. Cuando Catherine decide aceptar la propuesta de matrimonio de Townsend, su padre amenaza con desheredarla. Townsend rompe el matrimonio. Con los años, el padre muere y Catherine se convierte en una solterona resentida.

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

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 AUTOBIOGRAPHIESA Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother, The Middle Years

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 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. Beneath his veneer of civilized behaviour, Isabel discovers cruelty and a stifling darkness. 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.

A través de la lucha por la supervivencia de dos jóvenes periodistas que se abren paso en el Londres de Fleet Street, esta magnífica novella de James nos ofrece un retrato muy actual del periodismo, pese a desarrollarse a comienzos del siglo XX. Cuestiones de actualidad, como el ansia de celebridad y los problemas que acarrea, el sensacionalismo y la voracidad de los medios de comunicación, poder para promocionar, ningunear o destruir a personajes públicos, así como los dilemas éticos periodísticos que implican, se planteaban ya hace tiempo con toda su crudeza. La presente edición bilingüe nos permite leer directamente a Henry James cotejando su prosa con una cuidada traducción al castellano que trata de ser fiel al espíritu clásico contemporáneo.

Para quien desee acercarse a Henry James, este libro constituirá, sin lugar a dudas, un verdadero tesoro. Los papeles de Aspern es -para muchos- su obra máxima, y representa -para todos- un buen camino de iniciacion a su poetica. Despliega, a la vez, un mundo ficticio fantasticamente personal y una tecnica de una sutileza bien particular. Define lo que podria llamarse "el efecto James": esa marca que lo hace inimitable y lo distingue en la literatura moderna. Con Daisy Miller, James logra un espectacular y nunca repetido exito de publico y delinea, de hecho, una serie de conflictos que asomaran con insistencia a lo largo de su obra.

One of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, "affront her destiny." James began The Portrait of a Lady without a plot or subject, only the slim but provocative notion of a young woman taking control of her fate. The result is a richly imagined study of an American heiress who turns away her suitors in an effort to first establishand then protecther independence. But Isabels pursuit of spiritual freedom collapses when she meets the captivating Gilbert Osmond. "Jamess formidable powers of observation, his stance as a kind of bachelor recorder of human doings in which he is not involved," writes Hortense Calisher, "make him a first-class documentarian, joining him to that great body of storytellers who amass what formal history cannot."

O Mentiroso é uma pequena novela centrada na personagem de Oliver Lyon, um pintor contratado para produzir um retrato de Sir David Ashmore, um nonagenário. Para esse efeito, Lyon desloca-se à casa de

The Real Thing Henry James - "The Real Thing" is a short story by Henry James, first syndicated by S. S. McClure in multiple American newspapers and then published in the British publication Black and White in April 1892 and the following year as the title story in the collection, The Real Thing and Other Stories published by Macmillan. This story, often read as a parable, plays with the reality-illusion dichotomy that fascinated James, especially in the later stages of his career. For the illustrator who narrates the story, the genuine article proves all too useless for his commercial purposes. The story portrays the unfortunate victims of a society in which reality and representation are closely intertwined in ways that make art a difficult project to disentangle the two.

Daisy Miller Henry James - Daisy Miller is a novella by Henry James. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot of hers. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates when they meet in Switzerland and Italy.

The Turn of the Screw Henry James - A young governess arrives at Bly, a country home in Essex, England, to care for Miles and Flora, two precocious and pure children. But as ghostly visions take shape, the obsessively protective governess soon fears for the safety of her wardsonly to wonder if these hauntings are a conjuring of her own imagination.The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Colliers Weekly magazine (January 27 April 16, 1898). In October 1898 it appeared in The Two Magics, a book published by Macmillan in New York City and Heinemann in London. Classified as both gothic fiction and a ghost story, the novella focuses on a governess who, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted. In the century following its publication, The Turn of the Screw became a cornerstone text of academics who subscribed to New Criticism. The novella has had differing interpretations, often mutually exclusive. Many critics have tried to determine the exact nature of the evil hinted at by the story. However, others have argued that the brilliance of the novella results from its ability to create an intimate sense of confusion and suspense within the reader. The novella has been adapted numerous times in radio drama, film, stage, and television, including a 1950 Broadway play, the 1961 film The Innocents, and a 2020 modern adaptation named The Turning.

The Suburbs of London Henry James - The Suburbs of London was written in the year 1877 by Henry James.An article describing the London suburbs in 1877 and the ways of the Londoner.The Suburbs of London Henry James - The Suburbs of London was written in the year 1877 by Henry James.An article describing the London suburbs in 1877 and the ways of the Londoner.

The Tragic Muse Henry James - The Tragic Muse is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1889-1890 and then as a book in 1890. This wide, cheerful panorama of English life follows the fortunes of two would-be artists: Nick Dormer, who throws over a political career in his efforts to become a painter, and Miriam Rooth, an actress striving for artistic and commercial success. A cast of supporting characters help and hinder their pursuits

Los papeles de Aspern (en inglés, The Aspern Papers) es el título de una novela corta de Henry James publicada por primera vez por entregas en la revista The Atlantic Monthly en 1888, y aparecida en libro al año siguiente. La obra se inspira en una anecdota real que llego a oidos del autor acerca de un bostoniano llamado Silsbee, que sentia adoracion por el poeta Shelley. Es una de las obras mas conocidas y aclamadas de James.

El altar de los muertos (llevada al cine por François Truffaut en 1977 bajo el título de La habitación verde ) constituye una de las cimas del relato breve de todos los tiempos. Es una delicada y conmovedora parabola sobre el peso de la tristeza, la imposibilidad de vivir sin amor, el recuerdo de los seres queridos, la dificultad de perdonar y el misterio de la muerte.

Más que de un problema de amor y de codicia, la novela trata de la lucha entre la ingenuidad y el vicio en un entorno donde la bondad está siempre muy cercana a la estupidez y la inteligencia y la as

Christopher Newman, «el americano», «el hombre nuevo», «el gran bárbaro del Oeste», llega a París dispuesto a «ver todas las cosas importantes y hacer lo que hace la gente inteligente». Tomar esposa

Una institutriz acude al cuidado de dos niños en una vetusta mansión victoriana. Lo que en principio parece un cometido agradable derivará en una situación de pesadilla. Los niños viven impactados por un pasado inmediato en el que la anterior institutriz, la señorita Jessel, y Peter Quint.