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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘The place, with its grey sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theatre after the performance-all strewn with crumpled playbills.’Revered as one of the greatest ghost stories ever told, James’s The Turn of the Screw is an eerie Victorian masterpiece.When an inexperienced governess goes to work at Bly, a country house in Essex to look after a young boy Miles and his sister...
| Автор | Henry James |
| Жанр | Классическая проза, Мистика, Зарубежная современная проза, Зарубежный детектив |
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.’Isabel Archer is a beautiful, intelligent and independent young woman. Brought from America to England by her wealthy Aunt who seeks to further her education and find her niece a husband, Isabel is determined to shape her own future – one that does not necessarily entail becoming a wife. Isabel inherits a fortune when her rich uncle dies and feels...
| Автор | Henry James |
| Жанр | Классическая проза, Зарубежная современная проза |
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Christopher Newman is an American expatriate in Paris; his fortune made, he has moved to the Old World to enjoy his wealth and find a wife. Newman soon falls for a young widow, the aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde, but his brash New World sensibility horrifies her haughty family. Though the family oppose the idea of the couple’s marriage, reversals of fortune cause them to reconsider. When another suitor...
| Автор | Henry James |
| Жанр | Классическая проза, Зарубежная современная проза, Зарубежные любовные романы |
A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Kieran McGovern. When a handsome young man begins to court Catherine Sloper, she feels she is very lucky. She is a quiet, gentle girl, but neither beautiful nor clever; no one had ever admired her before, or come to the front parlour of her home in Washington Square to whisper soft words of love to her. But in New York in the 1840s young ladies are not free to marry where they please. Catherine must have her...
| Автор | Henry James |
| Жанр | Английский язык, Зарубежная образовательная литература |
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 |
A young woman comes to a big house to teach two young children. But she begins to see strange things - the ghosts of dead people. Do the ghosts want the children?
6,851 words.
British English.
Retold by Cherry Gilchrist.
| Автор | Henry James |
| Год | 2008 |
'Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry' Graham Greene
Isabel Archer's main aim in life is to protect her independence. She is not interested in settling down and compromising her freedom for the sake of marriage. However, on a trip around Europe with her aunt, she finds herself captivated by the charming Gilbert Osmond, who is very interested in the idea of adding Isabel to his collection of beautiful artworks...
| Автор | Henry James |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2008 |
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 |
This complex tale of self-discovery - considered by the author to be his best work - traces the path of an aging idealist, Lambert Strether. Arriving in Paris with the intention of persuading his young charge to abandon an obsession with a French woman and return home, Strether reaches unexpected conclusions.
| Автор | Henry James |
| Год | 2016 |
The story of young Nanda Brookenham's struggle to preserve her honesty in the brilliant but corrupt world of her parents is a drama of innocence betrayed yet preserved. Written when James was recovering from the shock od failure as a playwright, The Awkward Age is one of his greatest masterpieces. Conceived like a play terms of scenes and conducted largely through witty dialogue, the novel bears the triumphant signs of his painful apprenticeship in the theatre.
| Автор | Henry James |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 1993 |
Henry James's third novel is an exploration of his most powerful, perennial theme - the clash between European and American cultures, the Old World and the New. Christopher Newman, a 'self-made' American millionaire in France, falls in love with the beautiful aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde. Her family, however, taken aback by his brash American manner, rejects his proposal of marriage. When Newman discovers a guilty secret in the Bellegardes' past, he confronts a moral...
| Автор | Henry James |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 1986 |
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 |
The illegitimate and impoverished son of a dressmaker and a nobleman, Hyacinth Robinson has grown up with a strong sense of beauty that heightens his acute sympathy for the inequalities that surround him. Drawn into a secret circle of radical politics he makes a rash vow to commit a violent act of terrorism. But when the Princess Casamassima - beautiful, clever and bored - takes him up and introduces him to her own world of wealth and refinement, Hyacinth is torn. He is horrified by the...
| Автор | Henry James |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2006 |
Discover Henry James's most famous and terrifying story in an edition which also includes a unique selection of his best loved ghost stories. A young governess is sent to a great country house to care for two orphaned children. To begin with Flora and Miles seem to be model pupils but gradually the governess starts to suspect that something is very wrong with them. As she sets out to uncover the corrupt secrets of the house she becomes more and more convinced that something evil is...
| Автор | Henry James |
| Жанр | Классическая зарубежная проза на английском языке |
| Год | 2007 |
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 |