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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...

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first novel, „This Side of Paradise,” focuses on several themes and illustrates some social and moral changes in America during the early 20th century. This semiautobiographical story of the handsome, indulged, and idealistic Princeton student Amory Blaine received critical raves and catapulted Fitzgerald to instant fame. Amory Blaine is utterly an idealist. He indulges in every...

Zbiór siedmiu pełnych ciepła i humoru nowelek, opowiadających o dorastaniu, przyjaźni, miłości i podejmowaniu decyzji: tych błahych i tych na całe życie. Coś dla młodszych i starszych, dla dziewcząt i chłopaków, dla wszystkich, którzy nie wstydzą się swoich uczuć. Tytułowe „Wybory” to historia rozgrywki między prymuską Zosią a nonszalanckim Antkiem Romanem, dwojga imion, z których jedno...

First published in 1909, it focuses on feminist issues from the point of view of a young woman entering adulthood and enduring prejudice about her place in the world. And this novel, „Ann Veronica”, tells the story of a middle class young woman who is fed up of being expected to be purely decorative. Her father and her boyfriends really are incapable of understanding why she should want to study science,...