Henry James: 1258 books

El pupilo es una novela de Hnery James. Comienza cuando una familia, en otro tiempo adinerada y elegante y que poco a poco ha ido cayendo en la miseria, decide buscar preceptor para su hijo. A partir de ese momento nos veremos inmersos en los pormenores que atra...

Escritor estadounidense. Nació el 15 de abril de 1843 en el seno de una acomodada familia de origen irlandés en la ciudad de Nueva York, Estados Unidos. Hermano menor del filósofo William James, estudió en Nueva York, Londres, París y Ginebra. Conoció a autores...

James expone concisamente en las pocas páginas de este relato, ese difícil trayecto que separa al escritor de su crítico, ese abismo que divide dos mundos irreconciliables pero a su vez mutuamente necesarios. Aquí se nos presenta a un joven crítico literario que es invitado por un prestigioso...

The Pupil is a short, emotional story of a precocious young boy growing up in a mendacious and dishonorable family. He befriends his tutor, who is the only adult in his life that he can trust. James presents their relationship with sympathy and insight, and the story reaches what some would consider the status of classical tragedy.

Firenze nelle descrizioni degli intellettuali che più l'hanno amata / Florence described by the writers most fond of her. Nelle parole di / In the words of Andersen, Cooper, Dickens, Dumas, Eustace, Freud, Goncourt, Hazlitt, James, Le Corbusier, Mommsen, Morgan, Ruskin, Shelley, Stendhal, Trollope e Twain.

James' most celebrated short work in which his excellent craftsmanship is apparent through his skilful employment of irony and humour. This poignant book deals with the innate desires and leanings of the central character and the complexity of relationships stemming from conflicting human emotions. Touching!

«Washington Square spiega Franco Cordelli nella sua introduzione è un bellissimo romanzo, un romanzo che precede di alcuni anni i più celebri racconti di Anton ?echov. Un nome sorprendente da accostare a quello di uno scrittore tanto arido come era James, eppure non casuale. In Washington Square...

Roma, Firenze, Venezia – città conosciute e amate da James, e mirabilmente ritratte nel suo Ore italiane – fanno da sfondo alle passioni-ossessioni dei protagonisti di questi racconti, offrendo la forza simbolica dei loro monumenti e delle loro suggestioni. La condanna di Daisy Miller si consuma...

A London Life is one of James’s longest tales, in fact it falls into the category which he labelled the nouvelle. It seems that in writing it the author’s attitude to his heroine gradually became more critical and in the finished text a number of the other characters try to make Laura Wing realize...

Italian Hours ends with the phrase, "the luxury of loving Italy," and everything in the book indicates that James enjoyed this luxury to the fullest. But he was by no means a blind lover. His opening essay on Venice, for instance, doesn't gloss over the sad conditions of life for the city's...

Originally published by Scribners in 1901, The Sacred Fount was a product of James' most productive period and continues with the author's concentration of character over plot. The essence of the novel is an unnamed narrator who is not omniscient – he is involved in the actions of the other characters...

This brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward...

Published in book form in 1876, Roderick Hudson was said by James to be his “first attempt at a complex and full-length narrative.” The story follows the complicated relationship between Roderick Hudson, a talented but poor American sculptor, and his patron, the repressed Rowland Mallet, who takes Roderick to Italy to further his art.  It is a revealing portrayal of the demise of an artist.

Unfinished at the time of James’s death in 1916, the Ivory Tower utilizes a classic Jamesian theme—American innocence transformed by European experience. Here, however, there’s a twist: the hero was raised abroad and returns to America with its immense Gilded Age fortunes to discover the corrupting effects of wealth and possessions.