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Daisy Miller a Study by David (INT) David (EDT); Lodge Henry; Lodge James
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of those conv ...Show more
Daisy Miller and Other Tales by Henry James
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Category: Classics
Brought together here with further tales of cultural conflict, these stories are subtle, affecting variations on the 'international theme' that would dominate James's novels
Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
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Category: Classics
The Penguin English Library Edition of Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James"I'm a fearful, frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not?" This edition contains two of Henry James's most popular short works. Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisi ...Show more
Daisy Miller and an International Episode by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'an inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence' Young Daisy Miller perplexes, amuses, and charms her stiff but susceptible fellow-American, Frederick Winterbourne. Is she innocent or corrupt? Has he lived too long in Europe to judge her properly? Amid the romantic scenery of Lake Geneva and Rome, ...Show more
Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Civil War by George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History James M McPherson (Princeton University)
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Category: History
From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Battle Cry of Freedom," a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. Many Americans of his own time and in later generations considered him an incompetent leader, not to men ...Show more
English Journeys: Cathedrals and Castles by Henry James
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Category: Architecture and Urbanism | Series: English Journeys
The American Henry James' descriptions of the countryside, monuments, universities, cathedrals, castles, customs and manners of the English are filled with elegant charm and good humour. Here he delights in the hidden corners of ancient Chester streets, marvels at the drunken jollity of Epsom Derby day ...Show more
Italian Hours by John (EDT) Henry; Auchard James
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics
Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner by Henry James
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
Surrounded by the artists, writers and musicians who made up her court in Boston as they did in Venice, Isabella Stewart Gardner, a passionate art collector, was as revered and sought after as royalty. Henry James was inspired by the rich and powerful Gardner, as well as by the Palazzo Barbaro in Venice ...Show more
SPOILS OF POYNTON by JAMES HENRY
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Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics Ser.
Mrs. Gereth, widowed chatelaine of Poynton, is fighting to keep her house with its priceless objets d'art from her son Owen and his lovely, utterly philistine fianc�e. When she discovers that her young friend and sympathizer Fleda Vetch is secretly in love with Owen, she thrusts her into the battle-line ...Show more
The Ambassadors by Henry James
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Category: Classics
The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to 'live well', Henry James' "The Ambassadors" is edited with an introduction and notes by Adrian Poole in "Penguin Classics". Concerned that her son Chad may have become involved with a woman of dubious reputation, ...Show more
The American by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Collins Classics
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Christopher Newman is an American expatriate in Paris; his fortune made, he has moved to the Old World to enjoy his wealth and find a wife. Newman soon falls for a young widow, the aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde ...Show more