Henry James
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- The book is about history, but not the one that is written in dry letters in the textbook, but the one into which the time machine takes you and lets you live the days, months in the body of another person, a contemporary of the time you are reading about. It is about religion, but not about what they preach in churches, without the right to question, but about its origins, causes, development, problems,...
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- In this story, Henry James continues his favorite theme – Old World vs New World. An American woman with a turbulent past, agitated, spontaneous, somewhat vulgar, but beautiful and not devoid of mind, sets out to join the European high society. For this, she tries to marry a young English Baronet on herself, a very stiff and cold man, but spellbound by that which he cannot understand. But this situation...
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- The narrator meets the American Clement Searle in a London hotel. Searle had long wanted to move to England, to run away from the routine of his life. However, he is physically ill and depressed because his lawyer cannot support his claim for a share in the out-of-town property currently owned by Richard Searle. The narrator and the main character are trying to solve this problem.
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- Isabel, the main character of the story, knows the charm of marriage with a worthless person. Her fate – the confluence of fatal circumstances. Being a dowry and finding herself in Europe, she refuses to be quite worthy applicants for a hand, and having received a fortune, connects life with the rogue Osmond.
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- In the hope of a successful marriage, Eugene, Baroness Münster, and her younger brother, the artist Felix, descendants of Wentworth, come to Boston. Having settled in the neighborhood, they become close friends with the young Wentworths – Gertrude, Charlotte and Clifford. Witness and sophistication of Eugene, along with the cheerfulness of Felix create a difficult combination with Puritan morality,...
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- It only seems in the book that people can always deceive themselves, and life cannot be regulated on the „scientific” principles that fall on Gordon’s shoulders as the main character. „Crazy” scientist Gordon Wright calls Longville in Baden-Baden to judge whether he should marry Angela. After a couple of years, Longville meets Angela again at a French beach resort and realizes that he loves her.
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- In this story, a mother allows her only child, a seven-year-old boy, to die of diphtheria only so that he will never be subjected to the corrupting influence of the books written by his father, which she deeply condemns. Anyone who imagines motherly love and at least once saw the torment of a child restlessly darting in his crib, fighting for every breath, would never have invented such a monstrous...
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- The novel is complicated, it’s true. Long, ornate sentences, philosophical speculations of the characters, complex in their structure and further awareness of the phrase.. but.. this and not only the novel represents the uniqueness and sophistication. Restrained and at the same time shocking, harmonious and scary real. Did you know that among the higher aristocracy there are wolves in sheep’s clot...
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- The story of a glorious American who, through hard work, made a fortune and went to learn how to relax and laze in the open spaces of the Old World. In particular, he came to Paris, and this city, as is known, is a rather romantic place, according to the public. And, ironically, the practical Newman in this city was smitten by a certain widowed Madame de Center.
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- The main character had some rivalry with the main character had some kind of rivalry with George Korvikm. He did more things than the main character, and earned more pence, although there were chances for ingenuity. The main character was crazy about the work of Hugh Vereker, therefore he accepted an invitation to a party where he would meet his favorite author.
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- The Aawkward age nonetheless analyzes the English character with great subtlety. The Awkward Age, which is highly praised for its natural dialogue and the subtlety of the sensation that it conveys, illustrates Conrad’s remark that James never dwells in deep darkness or in strong sunlight. But he feels deep and bright every gentle shade.
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- The Italian Watch is a book of travel writing by Henry James. Everything in the book indicates that James enjoyed this luxury to its fullest. Throughout the book, he is constantly returning to the beauty and delights of Italian life, despite being too often significant shortcomings. Venice and Rome are undergoing the most extensive treatment.
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- The Finer Grain – a collection of small stories. The „A Round of Visits” is a thoughtful tragedy that triggered the opening of „Watch and Trusteeship”. The Bench of Desolation, located in an English seaside town, is a touching story of reconciliation after some very offensive and bitter misunderstandings.
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- Wybór prozy Henry’ego Jamesa, mistrza półcieni i subtelności, otwiera hipnotyczny, gotycki Obrót śruby , opowieść o duchach lub studium szaleństwa: badacze Jamesa od niemal stu dwudziestu lat toczą o to spór. Zbiór skonstruowany został wokół tematu, który umownie nazwijmy „sprawczością kobiet”, i Jamesowskiej metody „drobnego ziarna” – współczującej precyzji, z którą autor ukazywał pułapki, jakie zastawia...
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- 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...
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- The book opens with an unnamed narrator’s description of a party held one Christmas Eve in England at which some friends have gathered to share ghost stories. One of the partygoers, Douglas, says that he knows a particularly sinister ghost story about a governess’s time spent taking care of a wealthy Londoner’s niece and nephew at a country estate haunted by two ghosts.The story is that a governess...
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- 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,...
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- Po raz pierwszy w Polsce! Trzyosobowa amerykańska rodzina, pan Dosson z dwiema córkami, Delią i Francie, przyjeżdża do Paryża zakosztować wielkiego świata. Podczas rejsu poznają George’a Flacka, młodego korespondenta amerykańskiej gazety, który na wylot zna to miasto i oferuje się zostać ich przewodnikiem, nie kryjąc przy tym zauroczenia jedną z córek. Któregoś dnia los stawia na ich drodze Gastona...
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- Klasyczna gotycka powieść grozy w nowym przekładzie autorstwa Jacka Dehnela. Grupa znajomych w zimową noc snuje przy kominku opowieści o duchach. Jeden z uczestników przypomina sobie relację spisaną onegdaj przez jego znajomą. Przyjaciele umawiają się na kolejny wieczór, by wysłuchać mrocznej historii sprzed lat… Oto młoda guwernantka podejmuje się opieki nad dwójką sierot, które opuszczone przez...
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- Zło jest żywiołem, któremu łatwo ulec… Historia rozpoczyna się w Wigilię Bożego Narodzenia, gdy grupa przyjaciół zgromadzonych w starym dworze, przy kominku snuje opowieści o duchach. Jeden z obecnych opowiada trzymającą w napięciu historię matki i jej dziecka nawiedzanych przez tajemnicze widmo... Losy tych dwojga najbardziej poruszają Douglasa, przypominają mu o niesamowitych zdarzeniach, które...
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