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Daisy Miller

by Henry James, Mint Editions ...

Daisy Miller is Henry James’ sharpest critique of European high society and a must read for lovers of psychological drama, social deconstruction, and classic literature.The titular Daisy Miller is a woman whose genuine kindness and lust for life is anathema to the rigid and vain culture of 19th Century Europe. For refusing to conform, Daisy is the subject of gossip everywhere she goes and ... Read more

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Daisy Miller is Henry James’ sharpest critique of European high society and a must read for lovers of psychological drama, social deconstruction, and classic literature.The titular Daisy Miller is a woman whose genuine kindness and lust for life is anathema to the rigid and vain culture of 19th Century Europe. For refusing to conform, Daisy is the subject of gossip everywhere she goes and
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An International Episode

by Henry James ...

Series series Literary Classics
Two Englishmen — a lord and his cousin — come to Newport for the summer and are entertained by two American sisters; a year later the sisters come to London and discover what the lord's mother thinks of the arrangement. James settled in England and took British nationality at the last; this 1878 novella was read in England as an insult and in America as a betrayal, which suggests he had it about ... Read more

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Two Englishmen — a lord and his cousin — come to Newport for the summer and are entertained by two American sisters; a year later the sisters come to London and discover what the lord's mother thinks of the arrangement. James settled in England and took British nationality at the last; this 1878 novella was read in England as an insult and in America as a betrayal, which suggests he had it about
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The Real Thing and Other Tales

by Henry James ...

Series series Literary Classics
A gentleman and his wife, ruined and genuinely aristocratic, offer themselves to a magazine artist as models for aristocrats — and are useless, because they are the real thing and cannot be drawn. Four tales about art and its fakes, including the servant girl who poses better than any duchess. James wrote them in the years his plays were failing and he had gone back to fiction in a fury. ... Read more

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A gentleman and his wife, ruined and genuinely aristocratic, offer themselves to a magazine artist as models for aristocrats — and are useless, because they are the real thing and cannot be drawn. Four tales about art and its fakes, including the servant girl who poses better than any duchess. James wrote them in the years his plays were failing and he had gone back to fiction in a fury.
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The Aspern Papers

by Henry James ...

Series series Literary Classics
A literary scholar takes rooms in a decaying Venetian palazzo under a false name, because the old woman upstairs was once a great poet's lover and still has his letters. James got the idea from a real hunt for Shelley's papers, and wrote the sharpest thing anyone has written about the biographer's trade: everything the narrator does is reasonable, and all of it is theft. ... Read more

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A literary scholar takes rooms in a decaying Venetian palazzo under a false name, because the old woman upstairs was once a great poet's lover and still has his letters. James got the idea from a real hunt for Shelley's papers, and wrote the sharpest thing anyone has written about the biographer's trade: everything the narrator does is reasonable, and all of it is theft.
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The Awkward Age

by Henry James ...

Series series Literary Classics
Nanda Brookenham comes downstairs — she is old enough now to sit in her mother's drawing room, where the talk is not meant for her, and the talk is what the room is for. James settled in England and took British nationality at the last; this 1899 novel is told almost entirely in dialogue, like a play with the stage directions removed, and what is never said aloud is the whole plot. ... Read more

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Nanda Brookenham comes downstairs — she is old enough now to sit in her mother's drawing room, where the talk is not meant for her, and the talk is what the room is for. James settled in England and took British nationality at the last; this 1899 novel is told almost entirely in dialogue, like a play with the stage directions removed, and what is never said aloud is the whole plot.
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What Maisie Knew

by Henry James ...

Series series Literary Classics
Maisie's parents divorce and share her out six months each, then use her as a courier for the things they wish to say to one another. What she understands — and when — is the whole novel, and James never once steps outside her. He was born American, took British nationality in his last year, and wrote in 1897 the most unsparing book about adults ever put in a child's point of view. ... Read more

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Maisie's parents divorce and share her out six months each, then use her as a courier for the things they wish to say to one another. What she understands — and when — is the whole novel, and James never once steps outside her. He was born American, took British nationality in his last year, and wrote in 1897 the most unsparing book about adults ever put in a child's point of view.
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Eugene Pickering

by Henry James ...

Series series Literary Classics
A young man kept in the wrapping by his father until he is twenty-eight — betrothed since childhood to a girl he has never seen — is finally released into Europe, and falls immediately for a clever woman who has no intention of marrying him. James settled in England and took British nationality at the last; this 1874 story is his lightest treatment of the innocent abroad, and the woman is the ... Read more

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A young man kept in the wrapping by his father until he is twenty-eight — betrothed since childhood to a girl he has never seen — is finally released into Europe, and falls immediately for a clever woman who has no intention of marrying him. James settled in England and took British nationality at the last; this 1874 story is his lightest treatment of the innocent abroad, and the woman is the
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Gothic Shadows

15 Essential Classics of Gothic Horror, Ghost Stories and the Supernatural

by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, M. R. James, William Hope Hodgson, Arthur Machen, Ann Radcliffe, Gaston Leroux, Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker ...

Open the door to haunted houses, cursed portraits and creatures that changed horror forever. Gothic Shadows gathers fifteen complete classics including Dracula, Frankenstein, Carmilla, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Turn of the Screw and The Phantom of the Opera. Moving from elegant ghost stories to dark psychological terror, this carefully ordered collection reveals the many faces of the Gothic ... Read more

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Open the door to haunted houses, cursed portraits and creatures that changed horror forever. Gothic Shadows gathers fifteen complete classics including Dracula, Frankenstein, Carmilla, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Turn of the Screw and The Phantom of the Opera. Moving from elegant ghost stories to dark psychological terror, this carefully ordered collection reveals the many faces of the Gothic
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Gothic Shadows

15 Essential Tales of Horror and the Supernatural

by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, M. R. James, William Hope Hodgson, Arthur Machen, Ann Radcliffe, Gaston Leroux, Sheridan Le Fanu, Robert Louis Stevenson, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker ...

Descend into the dark heart of the Gothic tradition with fifteen complete works of terror, mystery and the supernatural. Gothic Shadows moves from haunted landscapes and psychological unease to vampires, doubles and the enduring monsters that transformed world literature. The collection includes The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Turn of the Screw, Carmilla, Strange ... Read more

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Descend into the dark heart of the Gothic tradition with fifteen complete works of terror, mystery and the supernatural. Gothic Shadows moves from haunted landscapes and psychological unease to vampires, doubles and the enduring monsters that transformed world literature. The collection includes The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Turn of the Screw, Carmilla, Strange
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The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James ...

The Turn of the Screw is a book by Henry James, first published in 1898. This celebrated gothic novella opens with a framed narrative in which a young, inexperienced governess accepts a post caring for two orphaned children, Miles and Flora, at the remote country estate of Bly. Isolated from society and charged with absolute responsibility for the children’s welfare, the governess quickly becomes ... Read more

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The Turn of the Screw is a book by Henry James, first published in 1898. This celebrated gothic novella opens with a framed narrative in which a young, inexperienced governess accepts a post caring for two orphaned children, Miles and Flora, at the remote country estate of Bly. Isolated from society and charged with absolute responsibility for the children’s welfare, the governess quickly becomes
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Joy to the World

The Life and Paintings of Lu Ann Barrow

by Karen Pope, Ginger Henry Geyer, Cheryl Vogel, James Housefield, David B. Barrow Jr., Susan Barnes ...

Series series Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities
“The tenor of my paintings is usually joyful and celebratory with rare expressions of sorrow or even shadows,” Lu Ann Barrow wrote in her artist’s statement. Represented for many years by the respected Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden in Dallas, she acquired many admirers, including former first lady Laura Bush, who commissioned Barrow to create poster art for the Texas Book Festival and ... Read more

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“The tenor of my paintings is usually joyful and celebratory with rare expressions of sorrow or even shadows,” Lu Ann Barrow wrote in her artist’s statement. Represented for many years by the respected Valley House Gallery and Sculpture Garden in Dallas, she acquired many admirers, including former first lady Laura Bush, who commissioned Barrow to create poster art for the Texas Book Festival and
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The Turn of the Screw

by Henry James ...

Some mysteries become more frightening when you cannot be certain what is real. In The Turn of the Screw, Henry James creates one of the most celebrated and psychologically complex ghost stories in English literature. Set against an atmosphere of isolation and uncertainty, this haunting novella gradually builds a sense of unease as troubling events challenge perceptions of reality and imagination. ... Read more

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Some mysteries become more frightening when you cannot be certain what is real. In The Turn of the Screw, Henry James creates one of the most celebrated and psychologically complex ghost stories in English literature. Set against an atmosphere of isolation and uncertainty, this haunting novella gradually builds a sense of unease as troubling events challenge perceptions of reality and imagination.
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