Author: Henry JamesPublisher: Openbook Publishing
ISBN: 9781448018383
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Daisy Miller and Washington Square
Author: Henry JamesPublisher: Openbook Publishing
ISBN: 9781448018383
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Daisy Miller
Author: Henry JamesPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 1460400828
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Henry James’s Daisy Miller was an immediate sensation when it was first published in 1878 and has remained popular ever since. In this novella, the charming but inscrutable young American of the title shocks European society with her casual indifference to its social mores. The novella was popular in part because of the debates it sparked about foreign travel, the behaviour of women, and cultural clashes between people of different nationalities and social classes. This Broadview edition presents an early version of James’s best-known novella within the cultural contexts of its day. In addition to primary materials about nineteenth-century womanhood, foreign travel, medicine, philosophy, theatre, and art—some of the topics that interested James as he was writing the story—this volume includes James’s ruminations on fiction, theatre, and writing, and presents excerpts of Daisy Miller as he rewrote it for the theatre and for a much later and heavily revised edition.
Washington square
Author: Henry JamesDaisy Miller ; Washington Square ; The Portrait of a Lady ; The Bostonians ; The Aspern Papers
Author: Henry JamesPublisher: Chancellor Press (UK)
ISBN: 9780753705261
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 893
Book Description
Henry James looked at his society-its rules and foibles-with a sharp, unsparing eye. Shifting from America to Europe, the new world and the old, he saw how rigid conventions could destroy lives and happiness. Five of James's classic, richly textured novels, in their entirety, present a cast of indelible characters and events: Daisy Miller, the tragic tale of an innocent young American girl in Rome; Washington Square, set in the heartless upper crust of James's native New York; The Portrait of a Lady, the master craftsman's acknowledged masterpiece; The Bostonians, a tart, high comedy about marriage and nascent feminism; and The Aspern Papers, about an editor's desperate attempts to get hold of letters by a romantic poet to his mistress--who has no intention of giving them up.
Henry James
Author: Henry JamesPublisher: Chancellor Press (UK)
ISBN: 9781402718885
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 893
Book Description
Henry James looked at society’s rules and foibles with a sharp, critical eye. Shifting from America to Europe, the New World and the Old, he saw how rigid conventions could destroy lives and happiness. His views come to life in 5 of his classic, richly textured novels included here: Daisy Miller, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, and The Aspern Papers.
Daisy Miller, a Study
Author: Henry JamesWashington Square
Author: Henry JamesPublisher: Modern Library
ISBN: 0375761225
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Washington Square follows the coming-of-age of its plain-faced, kindhearted heroine, Catherine Sloper. Much to her father’s vexation, a handsome opportunist named Morris Townsend woos the long-suffering heiress, intent on claiming her fortune. When Catherine stubbornly refuses to call off her engagement, Dr. Sloper forces Catherine to choose between her inheritance and the only man she will ever truly love. Cynthia Ozick, in her Introduction to what she calls Henry James’s “most American fiction,” writes that “every line, every paragraph, every chapter [of Washington Square] is a fleet-footed light brigade, an engine of irony.” Precise and understated, this charming novel endures as a matchless study of New York in the mid-nineteenth century.
The Europeans
Author: Henry JamesPublisher:
ISBN: 9780905712550
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Washington Square (Aziloth Books)
Author: Henry JamesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781907523397
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Published in 1881, 'Washington Square' is one of Henry James' most famous novels. It is the story of Catherine, a rather plain, shy and apparently malleable young woman who appears entirely under the will of her rich father. When a handsome young man, Morris Townsend, pays court to Catherine her father suspects that money rather than love is at the root of his interest, and he forbids his daughter to marry. Thanks to James' unmatched ability to lead us deep into the minds of his characters, we watch Catherine discover her own intelligence and with it, the courage to defy her father. But, as in so many of James' stories, a cruel fate intervenes and the lives of the novel's participants are shaped in ways quite different to those they would have chosen for themselves.
Author: Henry James