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Генри Джеймс (1843?–1916) — американский писатель и литературный критик. Поздний период его творчества — к которому относятся в том числе заглавные рассказы этого сборника — характеризуется замысловатым и неординарным стилем повествования. Длинные витиеватые предложения имитируют течение устной речи, по спирали единого мотива уводя читателя к центру смыслового водоворота. Сборник включает два рассказа Генри Джеймса: "The Beast in the Jungle" и "The Figure in the Carpet". В центре каждого из них...
| Автор | Генри Джеймс, Henry James, James H |
| Год | 2024 |
Catherine Sloper is not pretty or clever, but she is rich. She lives in New York with her father, the respected doctor, Austin Sloper. One day, Catherine meets a charming man called Maurice Townsend, who wants to marry her. But does Maurice really love Catherine, or does he just want her money? Doctor Sloper is sure that he knows the answer. Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language...
| Автор | Henry James |
| Год | 2023 |
Поклонникам популярного сериала «Призраки усадьбы Блай» наверняка знакомы герои и сюжеты всех рассказов этой книги. «Поворот винта» — мистико-психологическая повесть, ставшая культовой для мирового кинематографа XX и XXI веков. В усадьбе Блай происходят необъяснимые события, заставляющие читателя сомневаться, что реально, а что нет. Пытаясь понять таинственные явления, главная героиня ищет разгадку в прошлом — в отношениях между людьми, жившими в усадьбе до нее. Неужели призраки пытаются...
| Автор | Henry James |
| Жанр | Мистика, Английский язык, Зарубежная классика, Литература 19 века |
| Год | 2022 |
Henry James is considered one of the great American novelists, his work celebrated for its moral and psychological realism. This handsome jacketed hardback brings together three of his best works: The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw and Washington Square. From the heart-rending portrayals of love and betrayal to chilling ghost stories, this treasury showcases the breadth of Henry James' talent and his shrewd portrayal of human nature.
| Автор | Henry James |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2021 |
When the young American Frederick Winterbourne meets his compatriot Daisy Miller in the garden of a grand hotel in Switzerland, he is struck by her beauty, but slightly unsettled by her open ways and her flirtatiousness. Undeterred by this and by his aunt's disapproval, he invites her to join him in a jaunt to a nearby castle, little suspecting that this will set in train a sequence of events that promises to be a source of heartache and disappointment for him, and threatens to compromise...
| Автор | Henry James |
| Год | 2021 |
An unnamed young governess is sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Yet she is soon oppressed by a sense of foreboding and deep disquiet, becoming convinced that something dark is threatening her young charges. But are supernatural forces at work, or is the danger something altogether more earthly? Henry James's masterpiece, and widely considered to be the greatest ghost story ever written, The Turn of the Screw remains the apogee of suspenseful, haunting...
| Автор | Henry James |
| Год | 2021 |
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European...
| Автор | Henry James |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2021 |
How can I retrace today the strange steps of my obsession... The Turn of the Screw tells the tale of an unnamed governess who lives with her two charges in an isolated country house. After living for a while in blissful harmony, the governess begins to spy ghostly apparitions roaming the grounds. She becomes obsessed with these figures that only she can see, and strives to protect the children from their malevolent designs. But the situation soon begins to spiral out of control. This uneasy...
| Автор | Henry James |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2020 |
A young governess is employed to look after two enchantingly beautiful orphans.
Striving to protect the children, she becomes obsessed with the idea that they are in danger, and her good intentions cause more harm than good.
Uneasy and sinister, this novella shows a woman haunted by an eerie and evil presence that emerges from the terrors of real life.
| Автор | Henry James |
| Год | 2019 |
A study of conflict between father and daughter, this is the story of Catherine, the plain, obedient daughter of Dr August Sloper of Washington Square, New York. When Morris Townsend, a handsome man-about-town, proposes to Catherine, her father forbids the marriage, believing Townsend to be after his daughtera€s inheritance.
| Автор | Henry James |
| Год | 2019 |
Серия English Fiction Collection состоит из лучших произведений английских и американских авторов. Читая книгу на языке оригинала, вы не только обогатите собственную лексику и научитесь чувствовать грамматический строй, но также сможете насладиться настоящим языком великих писателей и поэтов.
Серия предназначена для тех, кто учит английский всерьез, кто действительно хочет знать этот красивый и многогранный язык.
| Автор | Henry James |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2018 |
Contains the Preface to the 1908 Edition Having travelled from her native New York to London to meet her relatives, Isabel Archer, a young, independently minded young woman, rejects the marriage proposals of two suitors in her determination to stay in control of her destiny. When she suddenly comes into a large legacy, Isabel believes that this windfall will finally ensure the freedom that she yearns for and embarks on an exhilarating journey through France and Italy, only to find her...
| Автор | Henry James |
| Год | 2018 |
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Widely accepted as Henry James' great masterpiece, The Portrait of a Lady is a poignant and intense exploration of freedom and identity. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an introduction by Costa Award-winning author Colm Toibin. Intelligent,...
| Автор | Henry James |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2018 |
January 1983, Colchester CID A new year brings new resolutions for Detective Inspector Nicholas Lowry. With one eye on his approaching fortieth birthday, he has given up his two greatest vices: smoking, and the police boxing team. As a result, the largest remaining threat to his health is now his junior colleague's reckless driving. If Detective Constable Daniel Kenton's orange sports convertible is symbolic of his fast track through the ranks, then his accompanying swagger, foppish...
| Автор | Henry James |
| Год | 2017 |
An unsettling new collection of Henry James's best short stories exploring ghosts and the uncanny 'There had been a moment when I believed I recognised, faint and far, the cry of a child; there had been another when I found myself just consciously starting as at the passage, before my door, of a light footstep' 'I see ghosts everywhere', wrote Henry James, who retained a fascination with the supernatural and sensational throughout his writing career. This new...
| Автор | Henry James |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2017 |
In The Portrait of a Lady. (1881), spirited young Isabel Archer travels from her home in Albany, New York, eager to discover what life has to offer in Europe. Determined to shape her own destiny, she rejects two eligible suitors - one American and one English - in her pursuit of freedom. Isabel's independence at first seems assured by a surprise legacy from her uncle but, ironically, her wealth only serves to attract the scheming Madame Merle and the cruelly possessive Gilbert Osmond. The...
| Автор | Henry James |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2017 |
When the mild-mannered Lambert Strether travels from America to Paris on a mission to 'save' Chad, the son of his formidable fiancee, he soon discovers that life in Europe is not at all what he had expected. Faced by the temptations of Parisian culture and the possibility of emotional liberation, Lambert is forced to reconsider his values.
Full of his customary wit and canny observations, Henry James proclaimed The Ambassadors to be his greatest novel.
| Автор | Henry James |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2017 |
A wonderful new collection of tales exploring Henry James's favourite 'international theme': the experiences of Americans in Europe, and the meeting of the old world and new. Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's great heroines - a young, independent American travelling in Europe, whose flouting of social conventions has the potential to lead to disaster. Her story is here accompanied by six more set among English castles, Swiss hotels and French ports, and all riffing on a...
| Автор | Henry James |
| Год | 2016 |