Author : Henry James
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 28,78 MB
Release : 2010-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1775417417
Young Londoners Kate and Merton are engaged, but have no money to marry on. When the wealthy but terminally ill American heiress Milly arrives in London, Kate schemes for a way to inherit her fortune. But when Kate achieves all she had hoped for, she finds that the money and the gentle, beautiful Milly have changed everything.
Author : Merle A. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 31,49 MB
Release : 1993-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521431101
Henry James and the Philosophical Novel breaks fresh ground by examining James's unique position as a philosophical novelist, closely associated with the climate of ideas generated by his brother William. It considers storytelling as a mode of philosophical enquiry, showing how a range of distinguished thinkers have relied on fictional narrative as a technique for formulating and clarifying their ideas; and investigates (with close reference to his novels) the affiliations between James's practice as a novelist and contemporary epistemological, moral, and linguistic concerns.
Author : Henry James
Publisher : Hesperus Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,85 MB
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1780940807
In this small masterpiece of unrequited love, Henry James, as in his greatest novels, depicts a moral consciousness torn between emotional impulses and the demands of society. Working in a post office in Mayfair, a young woman is exposed to the cryptic but alluring correspondence of the social elite, and in particular, to lines written by the dashing Captain Everard. As she memorizes the messages he telegraphs, she becomes increasingly attracted to the life described to her, fixated by scandal and gossip a world apart from her ordinary existence.
Author : Henry James
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 1967
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Sigi Jottkandt
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791482758
What is the matter with the women in Henry James? In The Portrait of a Lady, The Wings of the Dove, and his short story "The Altar of the Dead," one woman returns to a monster of a husband, another dies rather than confront the truth of her lover's engagement, while yet another stakes her all on having a candle lit for a dead lover, only to promptly reject it. Exploring these strange choices, Sigi Jöttkandt argues that the singularity of these acts lies in their ethical nature, and that the ethical principle involved cannot be divorced from the question of aesthetics. She combines close readings of James with suggestive tours through Kantian aesthetics and set theory to uncover the aesthetic underpinning of the Lacanian ethical act, which has been largely overlooked in the current drive to discover a Cartesian origin for the subject as the subject of science.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 25,7 MB
Release : 1881
Category :
ISBN :
One of the finest novels by iconic British author Charles Dickens, this Victorian tale follows the good-natured orphan Pip as he makes his way through life. As a boy, Pip crosses paths with a convict named Magwitch, a man who will heavily influence Pip’s adulthood. Meanwhile, the earnest young man falls for the beautiful Estella, the adoptive daughter of the affluent and eccentric Miss Havisham. Widely considered to be Dickens's last great book, the story is steeped in romance and features the writer's familiar themes of crime, punishment, and societal struggle.
Author : Henry James
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Man-woman relationships
ISBN :
Author : Henry James
Publisher : Everyman
Page : 1286 pages
File Size : 11,41 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Encompassing a period of almost 50 years, the stories of Henry James represent the most remarkable feat of sustained literary creation in modern times. These two volumes contain his best work from 1866 to 1891.
Author : Henry James
Publisher : Golgotha Press
Page : 715 pages
File Size : 15,25 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1610426886
The heroine of The Wings of a Dove is Milly, an extremely rich American girl, who has been left with no living relatives. She spends much of her time with friend and fellow traveler Susan Shepherd Stringham and together they become part of the social circle of Maud Lowder, a friend of Susan's who lives in London. Milly and Susan are not introduced to the readers until the third chapter. The first two chapters are taken up with Kate Croy, who is Mrs. Lowder's niece, and Merton Densher, a journalist whom Kate is in love with.
Author : Henry James
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 27,96 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Americans
ISBN :
