The American, Paperback - Henry James

During a trip to Europe, Christopher Newman, a wealthy American businessman, asks the charming Claire de Cintr to be his wife. To his dismay, he re...

An elegant introduction to one of America's most complex and influential writers. From his childhood in a family of leading American intellectuals ...

Classic American novel which revolves around the feminist movement in 1870s Boston.

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004, a remarkable novel about Henry James, the American-born novelist and a connoisseur of exile.

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John C. CulverAuthor: John Hyde" A] lucid and sympathetic portrait of a fascinating character. Wallace's life reminds us of...

DescriptionThis collection of prefaces, originally written for the 1909 multi-volume New York Edition of Henry James's fiction, first appeared in b...

An incomparable Henry James novel in a new edition Featuring a new introduction, it is a brilliant and sophisticated satire of manners and morals i...

Published in 1904, The Golden Bowl is the last completed novel of Henry James. In it, the widowed American Adam Verver is in Europe with his daught...

``Live all you can; it's a mistake not to, `` declares the primary ``ambassador`` of this 1903 novel, adding, ``It doesn't so much matter what you ...

Reducere. Patriot, Prisoner, Survivor: An American Family at War is CDR James Bedinger's first-hand account of his life, and in particular, his service and i...

Henry James is one of the giants of American literary history. From the novella ``Daisy Miller`` and classic short stories such as ``The Turn of th...

The tale of Daisy's irruption into staid European society enjoyed, as did Daisy herself, a succes de scandale; and it has remained one of Jamess mo...

Early American naturalists assembled dazzling collections of native flora and fauna, from John Bartram's botanical garden in Philadelphia and the a...

'O'Hara is the only American writer to whom America presents itself as a social scene in the way it once presented itself to Henry James, or France...

Reducere. New York Times bestselling author Joyce Carol Oates' imaginative look at the last days of five giants of American literature, now available in a de...

As a journalist, historian, and novelist born into a family that included two past Presidents, Henry Adams was forever focused on the experiences a...

Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with...

A unique edition of James's two complementary tales, 'Daisy Miller' and 'An International Episode', in which the young American girl irrupts into E...

The Awakening is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisiana Gulf coast at the end of the 19th century...

Reducere. Descriptione Awakening, originally titled A Solitary Soul, is a novel by Kate Chopin, first published in 1899. Set in New Orleans and on the Louisi...

Reducere. The first full-scale biography of John Hay since 1934: From secretary to Abraham Lincoln to secretary of state for Theodore Roosevelt, Hay was an e...

This celebration of America's literary legacy, a companion volume to Dover's 100 Great Short Stories, offers students and other readers a superb se...

Reducere. With the same grace and lyrical precision that distinguish his vibrant short stories, James McPherson surveys the emotional upheaval of his last tw...

Reducere. Shy Maggie Verver, a young American heiress, shares an uncommonly close bond with her father. Widower Adam Verver, a financier and art connoisseur,...

Reducere. DescriptionSixteen spine-tingling tales from the dark side of our nation's literary history include stories by Sarah Orne Jewett, Henry James, Mark...

Reducere. AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY COMES TO LIFE Discover why young people all over the country are reading the Black Stars biographies of African American h...

A wonderful new collection of Henry James's short stories about Americans in Europe Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's great heroines: a young, i...

Reducere. "One Hundred and One Poems" by Roy Cook is a remarkable anthology of American poets. Some are no longer familiar, but their poetry sheds light on a...

Preaching mediates the word of God into a cultural matrix. And no American preaching has done so more effectively and powerfully than African Ameri...

Reducere. "The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world."-Rebecca West ...

Wieland (1798) is a novel by American author Charles Brockden Brown. Considered the first American Gothic novel, this a story of psychological horr...

Reducere. To public radio host and reporter Brady Carlson, the weighty responsibilities of being president never end. As Carlson sees it, the dead presidents...

Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a "letter to the world"--the 1, 775 poems left unpublis...

Vulnerability. We see it everywhere. In once permanent institutions. In runaway pandemics. In democracy itself. And most frighteningly, in ecosyste...

Reducere. Hailed by Henry James as ``the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country, `` Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter reache...

Reducere. Recalling the great confessional narratives from St. Augustine to Jean Jacques Rousseau, from Benjamin Franklin and Frederick Douglass to Henry Ada...

Reducere. A New York Times bestseller with an "engaging narrative and array of detail" (The Wall Street Journal), the "intimate and sweeping" (Raleigh News &...

Reducere. World-renowned illustrator Seth returns with three new Christmas ghost stories for 2020.After receiving word that his Uncle Henry has gone missing,...

Reducere. Tracing the struggle for freedom and civil rights across two centuries, this anthology comprises speeches by Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth, W...

DescriptionHis name conjures images of the Wild West, of gunfights and gambling halls and a legendary friendship with the lawman Wyatt Earp. But be...

In May 1906, the Atlantic Monthly commented that Americans live not merely in an age of things, but under the tyranny of them, and that in our rele...

Reducere. A fanciful history lesson for middle graders, featuring a charming mouse named Celeste.Celeste is a mouse who is looking for a home. Is it nestled ...

Reducere. Hailed by Henry James as "the finest piece of imaginative writing yet put forth in the country, " Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter reaches ...

Reducere. THE FEDERALIST PAPERS Read the latest edition of an American classic: The Federalist Papers. Including all 85 original articles arguing on behalf o...

America has a long history of diplomacy-ranging from Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson to Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan,...

Reducere. An adult fairytale about a girl who might know how to fly, a neurobotanist who might be a dragon, an innkeeper who might be a machine and a politic...

Description"Leaps straight onto the roster of essential reading for anyone even vaguely interested in Grant and the Civil War."--Ron Chernow, autho...

Reducere. In North America's first major conflict, known today as the French and Indian War, France and England-both in alliance with Native American tribes-...

Reducere. Percy Lubbock's "The Craft of Fiction, " like E. M. Forster's "Aspects of the Novel, " is an essential work of criticism. Lubbock's outlook is an e...

Eugenia, an expatriated American, is the morganatic wife of a German prince, who is about to reject her in favor of a state marriage. With her arti...

'There was nothing weak about Miss Olive, she was a fighting woman, and she would fight him to the death' Basil Ransom, an attractive young Mississ...

Reducere. DescriptionHenry Ford is the man who doubled wages, cut the price of a car in half, and produced over 2 million units a year. Time has not diminish...

Reducere. Louisa May Alcott never intended to write Little Women. She had dismissed her publisher's pleas for such a novel. Written out of necessity to suppo...

Reducere. On February 15, 1898, the American ship USS Maine mysteriously exploded in the Havana Harbor. News of the blast quickly reached U.S. shores, where ...

Reducere. Westerns were a huge part of movies during the silent movie era and even more so beginning in the late 1930's through the 1960's. Westerns develope...

Reducere. "An absorbing achievement . . . A nimble, entertaining literary homage, but it is also, chillingly, what James would have called 'the real thing.'"...