Henry James

Portret damy to jedna z najbardziej znanych i poczytnych powieści Henry'ego Jamesa. Akcja książki toczy się w XIX wieku. Młoda Amerykanka, Isabel Archer, po śmierci rodziców postanawia udać się do Europy. Pod opiekuńczymi skrzydłami ciotki i jej przyjaciela dociera na Stary Kontynent, gdzie zachwyca wszystkich zarówno urodą, jak i inteligencją. Ona sama zamierza stać się idealnym wcieleniem prawdziwej...

The novel comes from what is called James’s ‘late period’. The writing is mannered, baroque, complex, and focused intently on the psychological relationships between his characters. There is very little ‘plot’ here in the conventional sense. Much of the interest in the narrative is centred on the limitations of the principal character, from whose point of view the story is told. Lambert Strether is...

A short story which deals, as many other novels by James, with the changing role of women in Society and the differences that begun to arise between the old stiff Europe and the America at the end of the XIXth century. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne, a compatriot of hers with much more sophistication. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness,...