Author: Henry James
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781632202567
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
The Great Short Novels of Henry James
Author: Henry James
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781632202567
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781632202567
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
The Short Stories of Henry James
Author: Henry James
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
The Classic Short Story, 1870-1925
Author: Florence Goyet
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1909254754
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular - the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - even the greatest writers followed strict generic conventions that were far from subtle. This expanded and updated translation of Florence Goyet's influential La Nouvelle, 1870-1925: Description d'un genre à son apogée (Paris, 1993) is the only study to focus exclusively on this classic period across different continents. Ranging through French, English, Italian, Russian and Japanese writing - particularly the stories of Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Giovanni Verga, Anton Chekhov and Akutagawa Ry?nosuke - Goyet shows that these authors were able to create brilliant and successful short stories using the very simple 'tools of brevity' of that period. In this challenging and far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers and higher-end periodicals. She demonstrates that, despite the apparent intention of these stories to question bourgeois ideals, they mostly affirmed the prejudices of their readers. In doing so, her book forces us to re-think our preconceptions about this 'forgotten' genre.
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 1909254754
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
The ability to construct a nuanced narrative or complex character in the constrained form of the short story has sometimes been seen as the ultimate test of an author's creativity. Yet during the time when the short story was at its most popular - the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - even the greatest writers followed strict generic conventions that were far from subtle. This expanded and updated translation of Florence Goyet's influential La Nouvelle, 1870-1925: Description d'un genre à son apogée (Paris, 1993) is the only study to focus exclusively on this classic period across different continents. Ranging through French, English, Italian, Russian and Japanese writing - particularly the stories of Guy de Maupassant, Henry James, Giovanni Verga, Anton Chekhov and Akutagawa Ry?nosuke - Goyet shows that these authors were able to create brilliant and successful short stories using the very simple 'tools of brevity' of that period. In this challenging and far-reaching study, Goyet looks at classic short stories in the context in which they were read at the time: cheap newspapers and higher-end periodicals. She demonstrates that, despite the apparent intention of these stories to question bourgeois ideals, they mostly affirmed the prejudices of their readers. In doing so, her book forces us to re-think our preconceptions about this 'forgotten' genre.
The New York Stories of Henry James
Author: Henry James
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590174321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Henry James led a wandering life, which took him far from his native shores, but he continued to think of New York City, where his family had settled for several years during his childhood, as his hometown. Here Colm Tóibín, the author of the Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel The Master, a portrait of Henry James, brings together for the first time all the stories that James set in New York City. Written over the course of James’s career and ranging from the deliciously tart comedy of the early “An International Episode” to the surreal and haunted corridors of “The Jolly Corner,” and including “Washington Square,” the poignant novella considered by many (though not, as it happens, by the author himself) to be one of James’s finest achievements, the nine fictions gathered here reflect James’s varied talents and interests as well as the deep and abiding preoccupations of his imagination. And throughout the book, as Tóibín’s fascinating introduction demonstrates, we see James struggling to make sense of a city in whose rapidly changing outlines he discerned both much that he remembered and held dear as well as everything about America and its future that he dreaded most. Stories included: The Story of a Masterpiece A Most Extraordinary Case Crawford’s Consistency An International Episode The Impressions of a Cousin The Jolly Corner Washington Square Crapy Cornelia A Round of Visits
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590174321
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Henry James led a wandering life, which took him far from his native shores, but he continued to think of New York City, where his family had settled for several years during his childhood, as his hometown. Here Colm Tóibín, the author of the Man Booker Prize shortlisted novel The Master, a portrait of Henry James, brings together for the first time all the stories that James set in New York City. Written over the course of James’s career and ranging from the deliciously tart comedy of the early “An International Episode” to the surreal and haunted corridors of “The Jolly Corner,” and including “Washington Square,” the poignant novella considered by many (though not, as it happens, by the author himself) to be one of James’s finest achievements, the nine fictions gathered here reflect James’s varied talents and interests as well as the deep and abiding preoccupations of his imagination. And throughout the book, as Tóibín’s fascinating introduction demonstrates, we see James struggling to make sense of a city in whose rapidly changing outlines he discerned both much that he remembered and held dear as well as everything about America and its future that he dreaded most. Stories included: The Story of a Masterpiece A Most Extraordinary Case Crawford’s Consistency An International Episode The Impressions of a Cousin The Jolly Corner Washington Square Crapy Cornelia A Round of Visits
An International Episode
Author: Henry James
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732692906
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: An International Episode by Henry James
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732692906
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: An International Episode by Henry James
Lady Barbarina
Author: Henry James
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732699625
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Lady Barbarina by Henry James
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732699625
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Lady Barbarina by Henry James
The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels
Author: Henry James
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451530677
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
By turns chilling, funny, tragic, and profound, this collection of six Henry James short novels allows readers to experience the full range of his skills and vision. The title story, “The Turn of the Screw,” is a chilling masterpiece of psychological terror that mixes the phantoms of the mind with those of the supernatural. “Daisy Miller,” the tale of a provincial American girl in Rome that established James’s literary reputation, and “An International Episode” are superb examples of his focus on the clash between American and European values. And in “The Aspern Papers,” “The Alter of the Dead,” and “The Beast in the Jungle,” the author’s remarkable sense of irony, his love of plot twists, and his view of male-female relationships find exquisite expression. With an Introduction by Fred Kaplan
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451530677
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
By turns chilling, funny, tragic, and profound, this collection of six Henry James short novels allows readers to experience the full range of his skills and vision. The title story, “The Turn of the Screw,” is a chilling masterpiece of psychological terror that mixes the phantoms of the mind with those of the supernatural. “Daisy Miller,” the tale of a provincial American girl in Rome that established James’s literary reputation, and “An International Episode” are superb examples of his focus on the clash between American and European values. And in “The Aspern Papers,” “The Alter of the Dead,” and “The Beast in the Jungle,” the author’s remarkable sense of irony, his love of plot twists, and his view of male-female relationships find exquisite expression. With an Introduction by Fred Kaplan
Henry James
Author: Susan L. Mizruchi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190944382
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Prologue -- Becoming Henry James -- Global apprenticeship -- The James brand -- Professional author -- Masterpieces -- Epilogue.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190944382
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Prologue -- Becoming Henry James -- Global apprenticeship -- The James brand -- Professional author -- Masterpieces -- Epilogue.
Henry James The Shorter Fiction
Author: N.H. Reeve
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349253715
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Eleven essays representing a fresh engagement, from a variety of critical positions, with the tales and nouvelles of Henry James. The collection contains new studies of well-known stories, such as 'Daisy Miller' and 'The Aspern Papers', and explorations of neglected areas, for example James's earliest signed stories from the 1860s, and such strikingly individual works as 'Glasses' and 'The Great Good Place'. The contributors include several of today's most prominent Jamesians, among them Tony Tanner, Barbara Hardy, Millicent Bell and Adrian Poole.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349253715
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Eleven essays representing a fresh engagement, from a variety of critical positions, with the tales and nouvelles of Henry James. The collection contains new studies of well-known stories, such as 'Daisy Miller' and 'The Aspern Papers', and explorations of neglected areas, for example James's earliest signed stories from the 1860s, and such strikingly individual works as 'Glasses' and 'The Great Good Place'. The contributors include several of today's most prominent Jamesians, among them Tony Tanner, Barbara Hardy, Millicent Bell and Adrian Poole.
Dilemmas of Existence: A Study of Henry James’s Short Fiction
Author:
Publisher: Book Rivers
ISBN: 9355158157
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher: Book Rivers
ISBN: 9355158157
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description