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Fábula magistral sobre las misteriosas relaciones entre el escritor y su público, pieza de impecable factura, engrasada como un buen reloj, La figura de la alfombra indaga sobre la naturaleza mudable de la creacion artistica.La figura de la alfombra, escrita en 1896, es una de las mas inspiradas bromas literarias de James, una obra maestra de los dobles entendidos, que embarca al lector en una delicada trama de equivocos librescos. El narrador, un innominado critico ingles, se topa con Hugh Vereker, un escritor de culto que le revela solo a medias la presencia en su obra de una especie de secreto fundamental que lo permea todo, como la compleja trama de hilos de una alfombra persa. El narrador se embarca entonces en una desesperada busqueda de la misteriosa pauta, para lo cual no dudara en llevar a la perdicion a su mejor amigo, Corvick, y a la prometida de este, Gwendolyn.

Young heiress, Isabel Archer, chooses not to marry. Caspar Goodwood, she rejects in America. Lord Warburton, she declines in England. When her cousin Ralph bequeaths half his inheritance to assist Isabel, all seems set for Isabel to attain the independence she desires but, she has not anticipated the influence of her friend Madame Merle and whilst visiting Italy, she falls for the charms of the dark dilettante, Gilbert Osmond. A tragic masterpiece.

Tre classici racconti dello scrittore americano Henry James (1843-1916). Ne Il diario di un cinquantenne un inglese torna a visitare Firenze dopo molti anni e rivive i fantasmi della propria giovinezza quando vi ritrova la figlia ormai adulta, ritratto vivente della madre, della donna di cui si era innamorato ai tempi e che non aveva avuto il coraggio di sposare, e un giovane gentiluomo inglese innamorato di lei, nel quale finisce per identificarsi. In Rose-Agathe un ricco americano a Parigi ci racconta la curiosa storia damore di un suo amico connazionale, collezionista di oggetti di artigianato del Settecento, alle prese con la moglie di un parrucchiere e con una parrucca bionda. In Lalbero della conoscenza il protagonista e un affermato critico e letterato, scapolo di mezzeta, che per tutta la sua vita e riuscito a nascondere al proprio migliore amico, uno scultore, i suoi due grandi segreti: che e da sempre innamorato di sua moglie, e che pensa che le sue opere siano atroci. Ma che succede quando un piccolo avvenimento rischia di far svelare i suoi segreti? Completano il volume una breve nota critica e degli apparati.

Quoi de plus délicat que les relations entre un veuf inconsolable et une fille qui ne ressemble pas à sa mère ? A New York, l'implacable docteur Sloper vit seul avec son unique enfant, Catherine, un être vulnérable. Une vieille tante écervelée papillonne entre eux. Un soir surgit un jeune homme au visage admirable... Dans la vénérable demeure de Washington Square, le quatuor est en place pour jouer un morceau dissonant.

Considerada una de las mejores novelas de Henry James, El retrato de una dama una historia sencilla gira en torno a la joven y atractiva Isabel Archer, quien se ve obligada a trasladarse a Inglaterra desde su Estados Unidos natal. Una vez alli, establece distintas relaciones con otros americanos trasplantados, asi como con la sociedad britanica. La belleza y distincion de las que hace gala no pasan inadvertidas y son varios y de distinta laya los que la pretenden. Su eleccion final la llevara, paradojicamente, a poner de manifiesto toda su grandeza.

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A European-bred baroness and her artist brother receive an uncertain welcome from their staid and proper relatives in 19th-century New England.

THE NOVELS Watch 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 Past THE TALES A 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 PLAYS Pyramus And Thisbe, Still Waters, A Change of Heart, Daisy Miller, Tenants, Disengaged, The Album, The Reprobate, Guy Domville, Summersoft, The High Bid, The Outcry THE TRAVEL WRITING Transatlantic Sketches, Portraits of Places, A Little Tour in France, English Hours, The American Scene, Italian Hours THE CRITICISM French 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 Novel THE AUTOBIOGRAPHIES A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother, The Middle Years

Las alas de la paloma (en inglés The Wings of the Dove) es considerada la obra maestra de Henry James. la obra narra con especial sutileza el triángulo amoroso entre Milly Theale, una joven millonaria norteamericana afectada por una enfermedad incurable, y la pareja integrada por Merton Densher (de quien Milly se enamora) y Kate Croy, que insta a su novio a seducir a Milly para obtener su herencia. El estilo caracteristico del maestro de la novela inglesa se despliega aqui con toda su carga de agudeza en el analisis de las emociones mas reconditas.