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Best Selling Books by Henry JamesHenry James is the author of Henry James - Washington Square (2020), The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw By Henry James Illustrated (Penguin Classics) (2021), The Altar of the Dead (2022), The Death of the Lion (2021).
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Henry James - Washington Square
release date: Oct 12, 2020
The Turn of the Screw By Henry James Illustrated (Penguin Classics)
release date: Jun 07, 2021
release date: Sep 15, 2022
release date: Jan 01, 2021
Henry James - Daisy Miller
release date: Oct 10, 2020
The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
release date: Jul 17, 2017
release date: Apr 15, 2015
release date: Apr 23, 2018
The Ambassadors is a 1903 novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in the North American Review (NAR). This dark comedy, seen as one of the masterpieces of James''s final period, follows the trip of protagonist Lewis Lambert Strether to Europe in pursuit of Chad Newsome, his widowed fiancée''s supposedly wayward son; he is to bring the young man back to the family business, but he encounters unexpected complications. The third-person narrative is told exclusively from Strether''s point of view. Plot summary Lambert Strether, a middle-aged, yet not broadly experienced, man from Woollett, Massachusetts, agrees to assume a mission for his wealthy fiancée: go to Paris and rescue her son, Chad Newsome, from the clutches of a presumably wicked woman. On his journey, Strether stops in England and there meets Maria Gostrey, an American who has lived in Paris for years. Her cynical wit and worldly opinions start to rattle Strether''s preconceived view of the situation. In Paris, Strether meets Chad and is impressed by the much greater sophistication Chad seems to have gained during his years in Europe. Chad takes him to a garden party, where Strether meets Marie de Vionnet, a lovely woman of impeccable manners, separated from her reportedly unpleasant husband, and Jeanne, her exquisite daughter. Strether is confused as to whether Chad is more attracted to the mother or the daughter. At the same time, Strether, himself, feels an overwhelming attraction to Marie de Vionnet, which he suspects she might requite, and so begins questioning his commitment to return to Woollett and marry Chad''s mother, despite his admiration for her. All of these impressions of Parisian culture lead Strether to confide in Little Bilham, a friend of Chad''s, that he might have missed the best life has to offer. Strether starts to delight in the loveliness of Paris and stops Chad from returning to America. Strether''s American traveling companion, Waymarsh, provides thematic counterpoint, by refusing to be seduced by the charms of Europe. Meanwhile, Mrs. Newsome, impatiently waiting in America, enlists new "ambassadors" to return forthwith with her son. The most important of the new ambassadors, Chad''s sister Sarah Pocock, harshly dismisses Strether''s impression that Chad has improved, condemns Marie as an indecent woman, and demands that Chad immediately return to the family business in America. To escape his troubles, Strether takes a brief tour of the French countryside, and accidentally encounters Chad and Marie de Vionnet at a rural inn; he then comprehends the full extent of their romance. After returning to Paris, he counsels Chad not to leave Marie, but Strether finds he is now uncomfortable in Europe. In the end, he declines Maria Gostrey''s virtual marriage proposal and returns to America................ Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 - 28 February 1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of renowned philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James. He is best known for a number of novels dealing with the social and marital interplay between emigre Americans, English people, and continental Europeans - examples of such novels include The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, and The Wings of the Dove. His later works were increasingly experimental. In describing the internal states of mind and social dynamics of his characters, James often made use of a personal style in which ambiguous or contradictory motivations and impressions were overlaid or closely juxtaposed in the discussion of a single character''s psyche. For their unique ambiguity, as well as for other aspects of their composition, his late works have been compared to impressionist painting...............
The Portrait of a Lady- By Henry James(Annotated)
release date: Oct 25, 2020
Notes of a Son and Brother by Henry James - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
release date: Jul 17, 2017
The Portrait of a Lady By Henry James(illustrated Edition)
release date: Feb 24, 2022
release date: Nov 13, 2022
The Portrait of a Lady Henry James
release date: Dec 31, 2016
The Ambassadors by Henry James
Henry James, the Portrait of a Lady
release date: Aug 12, 2018
The Lesson of the Master by Henry James - Delphi Classics (Illustrated)
release date: Jul 17, 2017
Henry James - The Beast in the Jungle
release date: Oct 10, 2020
Daisy Miller By Henry James
release date: May 29, 2014
The Portrait of a Lady Henry James Illustrated
release date: Feb 19, 2022
Henry James : Daisy Miller
release date: Jul 30, 2018
The Aspern Papers ; The Turn of the Screw ; The Liar ; The Two Faces
Washington Square (Annotated - Includes Essay and Biography)
release date: Nov 19, 2013
The Novels and Tales of Henry James
Henry James: the Ambassadors
release date: Sep 01, 2016
The Bostonians by Henry James
release date: Sep 11, 2017
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