Henry - Libros y biografía

Henry James surprises one with every work, even after years of reading him. Here in A London Life is the familiar calm omniscient anonymous narrative voice telling the story, but the story itself is full...

Rich and beautiful American girls heading to England to find themselves noble titles through marriage, and using their New World wealth to prop up the waning strength of the aristocracy, was almost a...

Confidence is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in Scribner's Monthly in 1879 and then as a book later the same year. This light and somewhat awkward comedy centers on artist Bernie...

Hawthorne is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1879. The book was an insightful study of James' great predecessor, Nathaniel Hawthorne. James gave extended consideration to each...

My relative, as it proved, was not sufficiently restored to leave the place by the afternoon train; so that as the autumn dusk began to fall I found myself at liberty to call at the establishment named...

A Small Boy and Others is a book of autobiography by Henry James published in 1913. The book covers James' earliest years and discusses his intellectually active family, his intermittent schooling, and...

1875 short story by the prolific American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his...

This 1878 comic story was originally published in The Parisian magazine in 1878, which is also when the story takes place. Several people in a Paris boarding house write letters home filled with anecdotes...

29 dicembre 1944: neve e ghiaccio ricoprono la taiga siberiana come un sudario, trasformandola in un inferno bianco. Un uomo sta marciando da ore, ma non può fermarsi. I nemici del Reich sono sulle sue...

Un nouveau volume de nouvelles humoristiques.  

Graham Greene and E.M. Forster marvelled at it, but F.R. Leavis considered it to be 'not only not one of his great books, but to be a bad one.' As for the author, he held The Ambassadors as the favorite...

This volume of "Mediæval Tales" is in four parts, containing severally, (1) Turpin's "History of Charles the Great and Orlando," which is an old source of Charlemagne romance; (2) Spanish Ballads, relating...

Victor Serenus written by Mrs. Henry Wood who was was an English novelist. This book was published in 1904. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original...

Paradiskoia handler om å finne friheten i naturen i ei koie langt fra folk. Hovedpersonen Harald går av med tidlig pensjon og får låne sitt livs drømmested i ett år. I løpet av dette året treffer han...

J’avais mis Mrs Prest dans ma confidence : à la vérité, sans elle, j’aurais bien peu avancé mes affaires, car l’idée féconde qui conduisit toute l’entreprise me vint par ses lèvres amies. Ce fut elle...

On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentleman was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carrè, in the Museum of the Louvre....

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember...

The Altar of the Dead is a short story by Henry James, first published in his collection Terminations in 1895. A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores how the protagonist...

A Coisa Certa é uma história curta de Henry James, geralmente lida como uma parábola, e brinca com a dicotomia realidade-ilusão que fascinava James, especialmente nos últimos estágios de sua carreira....

The Sacred Fount is a novel by Henry James, first published in 1901. This strange, often baffling book concerns an unnamed narrator who attempts to discover the truth about the love lives of his fellow...

The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedycenters on an odd triangle of characters:...

The Turn of the Screw, originally published in 1898, is a gothic ghost story novella written by Henry James. Due to its original content, the novella became a favourite text of academics who subscribe...

This volume of "Mediæval Tales" is in four parts, containing severally, Turpin's "History of Charles the Great and Orlando," which is an old source of Charlemagne romance; Spanish Ballads, relating chiefly...

"Alla fine di giugno del 1668, in piena Restaurazione e durante il regno di Carlo II, viene pubblicato a Londra 'L'isola dei Pine' ovvero la recente scoperta di una quarta isola nei pressi della Terra...

Un homme, de grande et fine stature, solitaire et misanthrope, vivant quasiment reclus en compagnie d’un chat, doté d’une prodigieuse capacité d’observation et de déduction logique, adepte d’opium et...

Cosa scaturisce dall'unione tra la visione di un autore tra i più innovativi della prosa moderna e il canovaccio più classico nella storia della letteratura di tutti i tempi, ovvero la fuga dalla propria...

The Ambassadors by Henry James is a 1903 novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in the North American Review (NAR). The novel is a dark comedy which follows the trip of protagonist Lewis...

Der Ritterorden St. Stanislaus, Teil 23 beschreibt den Orden in der Zeit nach der Eingliederung in das Russische Ordens-System. Beschrieben werden in diesem Buch berühmte ausländiche Ordensträger in der...

Der Ritterorden St. Stanislaus, Teil 2, beschreibt den Orden in der Zeit nach der letzten Teilung Polens durch Preussen, Österreich und Rußland. Der Orden wurde in das russische Ordenssysem eingegliedert...

No class of works is received with more suspicion, I had almost said derision, than those which deal with Science and Religion. Science is tired of reconciliations between two things which never should...