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Book The Aspern Papers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry James
  • Publisher : Xist Publishing
  • Release : 2015-09-16
  • ISBN : 1681951894
  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book The Aspern Papers written by Henry James and published by Xist Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Far Would You Go Just To Nurture Your Obsession? “That was originally what I had loved him for: that at a period when our native land was nude and crude and provincial, when the famous 'atmosphere' it is supposed to lack was not even missed, when literature was lonely there and art and form almost impossible, he had found the means to live and write like one of the first; to be free and general and not at all afraid; to feel, understand, and express everything.” - Henry James, The Aspern Papers An anonymous narrator arrives in Venice to retrieve Jeffrey Aspern’s - an American poet and his idol - love letters. There he finds Juliana Bordereau and his aging niece who may or may not have the letters in question. To convince Juliana, the narrator tries to seduce the niece, Miss Tita but is he willing to pay the price? Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes

Book The House On Fortune Street

Download or read book The House On Fortune Street written by Margot Livesey and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It seems like mutual good luck for Abigail and Dara when they meet at university and, despite their differences, become fast friends. Years later, they remain an unlikely pair: Abigail, an actress who confidently uses her charms both on and off stage, is reluctant to commit; Dara, a therapist, throws herself into every relationship with frightening intensity. Yet each seems—another stroke of luck?—to have found “true love”—Abigail with her academic boyfriend, and Dara with a tall, dark violinist. Soon, however, trouble threatens both relationships and the women’s friendship. Through four ingeniously interlocking narratives, Margot Livesey skillfully reveals how luck—good and bad—plays a vital role in our lives, and how our childhood legacies may be harder to leave behind than we hope. “Vibrant, evocative, irresistible” (Los Angeles Times), The House on Fortune Street offers a surprisingly provocative detective story of the heart, one that will keep you in its thrall.

Book The Aspern Papers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry James
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-09-15
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 106 pages

Download or read book The Aspern Papers written by Henry James and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Aspern Papers" by Henry James. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book The Aspern Papers   The Turn of the Screw   The Liar   The Two Faces

Download or read book The Aspern Papers The Turn of the Screw The Liar The Two Faces written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Aspern Papers

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry James
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1924
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 184 pages

Download or read book The Aspern Papers written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Daisy Miller

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  • Author : Henry James
  • Publisher : Broadview Press
  • Release : 2011-11-14
  • ISBN : 155111030X
  • Pages : 221 pages

Download or read book Daisy Miller written by Henry James and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James’s Daisy Miller was an immediate sensation when it was first published in 1878 and has remained popular ever since. In this novella, the charming but inscrutable young American of the title shocks European society with her casual indifference to its social mores. The novella was popular in part because of the debates it sparked about foreign travel, the behaviour of women, and cultural clashes between people of different nationalities and social classes. This Broadview edition presents an early version of James’s best-known novella within the cultural contexts of its day. In addition to primary materials about nineteenth-century womanhood, foreign travel, medicine, philosophy, theatre, and art—some of the topics that interested James as he was writing the story—this volume includes James’s ruminations on fiction, theatre, and writing, and presents excerpts of Daisy Miller as he rewrote it for the theatre and for a much later and heavily revised edition.

Book The Aspern Papers and Other Tales  1884 1888

Download or read book The Aspern Papers and Other Tales 1884 1888 written by Henry James and published by Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James. This book was released on 2022-04-07 with total page 899 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly edition of the short fiction of Henry James, comprising nine tales including 'The Aspern Papers' and 'The Liar'.

Book The Art of the Novel

Download or read book The Art of the Novel written by Henry James and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of prefaces, originally written for the 1909 multi-volume New York Edition of Henry James’s fiction, first appeared in book form in 1934 with an introduction by poet and critic R. P. Blackmur. In his prefaces, James tackles the great problems of fiction writing—character, plot, point of view, inspiration—and explains how he came to write novels such as The Portrait of a Lady and The American. As Blackmur puts it, “criticism has never been more ambitious, nor more useful.” The latest edition of this influential work includes a foreword by bestselling author Colm Tóibín, whose critically acclaimed novel The Master is told from the point of view of Henry James. As a guide not only to James’s inspiration and execution, but also to his frustrations and triumphs, this volume will be valuable both to students of James’s fiction and to aspiring writers.

Book The Aspern Papers  The Turn of the Screw  The Liar  The Two Faces

Download or read book The Aspern Papers The Turn of the Screw The Liar The Two Faces written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Major Stories   Essays

Download or read book Major Stories Essays written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James was the preeminent American writer of the late 19th century, a master of fiction who was also a subtle and audacious literary theorist. This volume brings together the most important of his short stories and novellas with his most significant critical writings. Selected from Library of America's authoritative five-volume edition of James's complete stories, the works collected here--among them "Daisy Miller," "The Aspern Papers," "The Beast in the Jungle," "The Turn of the Screw," and "The Great Good Place"--display his astonishing creative range, encompassing social comedy and supernatural horror, acute psychological portraiture and penetrating analysis of cultural conflict. A selection of James's criticism includes "The Art of Fiction," his declaration of the novelist's freedom, the celebrated preface to The Portrait of a Lady, and fascinating discussions of Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman, Shakespeare, and Balzac.

Book Felony

    Book Details:
  • Author : Emma Tennant
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Felony written by Emma Tennant and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of the literary treachery that took place at No 43 via Romana, Florence, where Claire Clairmont, once lover of Lord Byron and mother of his daughter Allegra, lived until her death in 1879. This is also the story on Henry Jame's novel The Aspern Papers, which is based on that household and the nefarious doings of the lodger there.

Book The Aspern Papers and Other Stories

Download or read book The Aspern Papers and Other Stories written by Henry James and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2009-01-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American editor with an enthusiasm for the works of Jeffrey Aspern, a romantic poet of the early 19th century, goes to Venice to acquire the letters that Aspern wrote to his mistress, a Miss Bordereau, whom he called "Juliana." Under an assumed name he rents a suite in the ancient palace where she lives in poverty and seclusion with her niece, Miss Tina. He finds that the old lady is shrewd and haughty and accepts him as a lodger only to put aside money for the future of Miss Tina, a timid, unattractive spinster much in awe of her aunt. During his residence with them, the editor wins the friendship of Miss Tina, to whom he reveals his mission. Leaving Venice for a fortnight, he returns to find that Miss Bordereau has died. Miss Tina, who is clearly in love, welcomes him expectantly, but confesses that she could only give him the papers if he were "a relative." In addition to "The Aspern Papers," this collection contains "The Private Life," "The Middle Years," and "The Death of the Lion," as well as prefaces by Henry James, a chronology of his life, and editor's notes. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Book Henry James s Europe

Download or read book Henry James s Europe written by Dennis Tredy and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an American author who chose to live in Europe, Henry James frequentlywrote about cultural differences between the Old and New World. Theplight of bewildered Americans adrift on a sea of European sophisticationbecame a regular theme in his fiction.This collection of twenty-four papers from some of the world's leadingJames scholars offers a comprehensive picture of the author's crossculturalaesthetics. It provides detailed analyses of James's perception ofEurope - of its people and places, its history and culture, its artists andthinkers, its aesthetics and its ethics - which ultimately lead to a profoundreevaluation of his writing.With in-depth analysis of his works of fiction, his autobiographical andpersonal writings, and his critical works, the collection is a major contribution to current thinking about James, transtextuality and cultural appropriation.

Book Novels and Stories  The Aspern papers  The turn of the screw  The liar  The two faces

Download or read book Novels and Stories The Aspern papers The turn of the screw The liar The two faces written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: