Bücher von Henry James

A Little Tour in France is a book of travel writing by American writer Henry James. Originally published under the title En Province in 1883-1884 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, the book recounts a six-week tour James made of many provincial towns in France, including Tours, Bourges, Nantes, Toulouse, Arles and several others. The first book publication was in 1884. A second, extensively revised edition was published in 1900.James gives the idea for the book in the first paragraph of the first installment of the original magazine serial: "France may be Paris, but Paris is not France." He conceived the book as a description of and even homage to the provinces. James had tried living in Paris before settling in London in 1876. He returned to France in 1882 to discover more of French provincial life than he had previously been able to see.

Italian Hours is a book of travel writing by Henry James published in 1909. The book collected essays that James had written over nearly forty years about a country he knew and loved well. James extensively revised and sometimes expanded the essays to create a more consistent whole. He also added two new essays and an introduction. Italian Hours ends with the phrase, "the luxury of loving Italy," and everything in the book indicates that James enjoyed this luxury to the fullest. But he was by no means a blind lover. His opening essay on Venice, for instance, doesn't gloss over the sad conditions of life for the city's people: "Their habitations are decayed; their taxes heavy; their pockets light; their opportunities few."

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. She then finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond, who, beneath his veneer of charm and cultivation, is cruelty itself. A story of intense poignancy, Isabel's tale of love and betrayal still resonates with modern audiences.

A middle-aged man named Lambert Strether is sent to Paris by his wealthy wife-to-be in order to convince her son Chad to return home to America and take over the lucrative family business. This turns out to be much easier said than done, as Strether finds Chad much better adapted to European life than anyone expected.James¿ characteristically dense prose is matched by a cast of subtly-realized characters who rarely say exactly what they mean. Widely regarded as one of James¿ best novels, The Ambassadors explores themes of love, duty, and aging, all told through the eyes of a man who wonders if life hasn¿t passed him by.This ebook follows the 1909 New York Edition, with one important exception: Since 1950, it has been generally agreed that the New York Edition had incorrectly ordered the first two chapters of Book XI. This text follows the convention of most printings since then, and the chapters have been returned to what is believed to have been James¿ intended order.

The Wings of the Dove is perhaps the most well-received of Henry James¿s novels. First published in 1902, it follows Kate Croy and Merton Densher, an engaged couple in late-Victorian London, who meet Milly Theale, a wealthy American heiress.Milly, though young and lively, is burdened with a fatal disease. She wishes to spend her last days on happy adventures through Europe, and her sparkling personality, still bright despite her looming death, quickly makes her a hit in the London social scene. As she plans an excursion to Venice, Kate and Merton, who are too poor to marry and still maintain their social standing, scheme to trick Milly out of her inheritance.The character of Milly is partly based on Minny Temple, James¿ cousin who died young of tuberculosis. He later wrote that the novel was his attempt to immortalize her memory, and that he spent years developing the core of the book¿s conceit before committing it to the page. The novel is James at his peak: dizzyingly complex prose weaves rich, impressionistic character studies, heavy in symbolism and allusion, amid the glamorous backdrops of high-society London and decaying Venetian grandeur.

One of the most famous ghost stories in literature, The Turn of the Screw earned its place in the annals of influential English novellas not for its qualities as a gothic ghost story, but rather for the many complex and subtle ways the reader can come to opposing conclusions as to tale¿s very nature. Are the ghosts the governess sees real, or are they figments of her quiet insanity?The Turn of the Screw was originally published as a serial, and later went through many revisions by James himself. Though there aren¿t any overt suggestion that James intended his novella to be anything but a simple ghost story, the ambiguity in the narrative has captured the imagination of generations of readers and critics.

The Portrait of a Lady is widely held to be the outstanding work of Henry James¿s ¿early¿ period, and among the finest novels of his entire career.When the eccentric Mrs. Touchett ¿takes up¿ her charming American niece, Isabel Archer, and returns with her to England, her husband and son, the invalid Ralph, are first mystified, then bemused. Soon, however, they are smitten, as also is their aristocratic neighbor, Lord Warburton. It is not long until a proposal of marriage comes from the English lord, but Isabel is not so quickly conquered. Besides, she has left a rejected suitor back in Boston, an archetypal American industrial magnate, Caspar Goodwood.Through a surprising bequest in Mr. Touchett¿s will, Isabel becomes a wealthy heiress. As she travels with her aunt through Europe, Isabel encounters several remarkable figures in the American émigré communities in which Mrs. Touchett has her social circles. She also is led towards a third suitor in Florence, and this encounter proves decisive.The novel took shape as James travelled on the Continent, after having lived in London for some years. That sense of place and displacement suffuses the book, but it remains the backdrop to the main business of the story: the unfolding of relationships around the figure of Isabel Archer. James explains in an illuminating preface how his heroine and her attendant characters took hold of him. His artistic vision was to display Isabel¿s character in action, embedded in this web of relations.The Portrait of a Lady is one of the supreme examples of James¿s capacity to display how moral imagination and concrete action emerge in character. But along with this, the novel explores the perception and persistence of love, dissects the psychological gradations between magnanimity and malice, and contrasts the energy and ambition of the new world with the allure and ennui of the old.This Standard Ebooks edition follows the New York edition, which incorporates the revisions James made to his text in 1908, almost thirty years after he first wrote it.

The Lesson of the Master is a novella written by Henry James, originally published in 1888. The novella tells the story of a young writer, Paul Overt, who meets Henry St. George, a famous novelist Overt admires. During that time, Overt also meets and falls in love with Marian Fancourt, a young woman who admires both St. George's and Overt's work. During their meetings, St. George, who is married, advises Overt against getting married and having children, arguing that a wife and children will be the death of Overt's creativity and career. Overt then takes an extended vacation in which he considers St. George's advice. When he returns, he learns that St. George's wife had died, and that St. George had taken Marian Fancourt as his wife. Overt feels that St. George had set him up in order to have Miss Fancourt for himself, but St. George insists that by marrying her, he saved Overt and his career.

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Daisy Miller, by Henry James, published in 1878. Winterbourne and Daisy Miller, a beautiful American girl, fall in love with each other. His pursuit of her is hindered by her flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates when they meet in Switzerland and Italy. James' "Daisy Miller" was a big success when it was published in 1878 and continues to be popular. Although some people criticized the story for being an "outrage on American Girlhood," Daisy Miller is one of James' most popular works, as well as The Turn of the Screw.

The smart and strong-willed Isabel Archer is brought to Europe by her well-off aunt Touchett toenter wedlock. Resolved to navigate her own destiny, she unabashedly turns down two eligible suitorswho offer their wealth and devotion to her. Amongst this, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to ahandsome, cruel charmer.Renowned as a masterpiece among James's early writings, this novel portrays the stark contrastbetween naivety and high spirits of the new world and deception and wisdom of the old. It alsoprofoundly counters the themes of individual liberty, duty, treachery and sexuality.

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La historia nos había mantenido alrededor del fuego casi sin respirar, y salvo el gratuito comentario de que era espantosa, como debe serlo toda narración contada en vísperas de Navidad en un viejo caserón, no recuerdo que se pronunciara una palabra hasta que alguien tuvo la ocurrencia de decir que era el único caso que él conocía en que la visión la hubiera tenido un niño. El caso, debo mencionarlo, consistía en una aparición en una casa tan antigua como la que nos acogía en aquellos momentos, una aparición terrorífica a un niño que dormía en el mismo cuarto que su madre, a quien despertó aterrorizado; pero despertarla no disipó su terror ni lo alivió para recuperar el sueño, sino que, antes de haber conseguido tranquilizarlo, también ella se halló ante la misma visión que había atemorizado al niño. La observación dio lugar a que Douglas replicara ¿no de inmediato, sino más avanzada la veladä algo sobre cuyas interesantes consecuencias quiero llamar la atención. Otra persona contó otra historia, no demasiado impresionante, y vi que Douglas no la seguía. Entendí que eso indicaba que Douglas tenía algo que contar, con tal de que esperásemos. En realidad, esperamos hasta dos noches después, pero en aquella misma velada, antes de separarnos, Douglas dejó entrever lo que estaba pensando.

Me confié a la señora Prest; lo cierto es que sin ella mis avances habrían sido muy escasos, pues la idea más provechosa salió de sus labios cordiales. Fue ella quien descubrió la fórmula y desató el nudo gordiano. Se supone que a las mujeres no les resulta fácil alcanzar una perspectiva libre y general de las cosas, de ningún asunto práctico; pero a veces improvisan con singular serenidad una idea audaz, una idea que a ningún hombre se le ocurriría. «Consiga que lo acepten como inquilino». Creo que jamás habría llegado a esta conclusión sin ayuda. Estaba dando palos de ciego; intentaba ser ingenioso, buscaba la combinación de artes que me permitiese entablar relación, cuando la señora Prest me sugirió felizmente que la manera de entablar relación pasaba por integrarme en su círculo más íntimo. Mi amiga no conocía mucho mejor que yo a las señoritas Bordereau; de hecho, llegué de Inglaterra con ciertos datos concluyentes que eran nuevos para ella. Las Bordereau se habían relacionado en el pasado, hacía de eso mucho tiempo, con uno de los grandes personajes del siglo, y vivían ahora recluidas en Venecia, muy modestamente, olvidadas, inalcanzables, en un recóndito y ruinoso palacio. Ésta era, en lo esencial, la impresión de la señora Prest. Ella, por su parte, llevaba alrededor de quince años en la ciudad, donde había realizado un montón de buenas obras; pero la esfera de su bondad nunca abarcó a las tímidas, misteriosas y, para algunos, poco respetables americanas ¿se presumía que en el curso de aquel largo exilio habían perdido su identidad nacional, a lo cual se sumaba un origen francés más remoto, tal como indicaba su apellido que ni pedían favores ni reclamaban atención.

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Ella era ciertamente una muchacha peculiar, y si al final él sintió que no la conocía ni la entendía, no es sorprendente que al comienzo pensara de igual forma. Al inicio, sin embargo, él experimentó lo que no percibió al final: que, una vez afianzada su relación gracias a las circunstancias, la peculiaridad de la joven se materializaba en un encanto al que era imposible oponerse o resistirse. Él tenía la extraña impresión (en ocasiones venía a ser una auténtica aflicción que, moralmente hablando, le sacudía los sentidos con la agudeza de una repentina punzada de neuralgia) de que sería mejor para ambos que interrumpieran su relación de inmediato y nunca se volvieran a ver. En años posteriores, él consideró este sentimiento como una premonición, y recordó dos o tres ocasiones en las que estuvo a punto de expresarlo a Georgina. Claro que nunca llegó a hacerlo; había múltiples buenas razones para ello. El amor feliz no está dispuesto a asumir deberes desagradables; y ni los serios presentimientos, ni la peculiaridad de su amada o la insufrible descortesía de sus padres impedían que el amor de Raymond Benyon fuera feliz. Georgina era una muchacha alta y rubia, de ojos bellos y fríos y una sonrisa cuya perfecta dulzura, proveniente de sus labios, rebosaba armonía. Tenía el cabello de color castaño rojizo, de un tono que podría calificarse como verdaderamente espléndido, y parecía moverse por la vida con una elegancia majestuosa, como habría caminado al son de un anticuado minueto. Los caballeros relacionados con la Marina tienen la ventaja de ver muchos tipos de mujeres; pueden comparar a las damas de Nueva York con las de Valparaíso, y a las de Halifax con las del Cabo de Buena Esperanza. Raymond Benyon había disfrutado de estas oportunidades y, siendo admirador de las mujeres, había aprendido su lección; se encontraba en una posición que le permitía apreciar las bellas cualidades de Georgina Gressie.

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