Henry James (37 kníh)
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Henry James, Janet Borsbey, Ruth Swan The turn of the Screw EN‘After I had accepted the position and agreed to his condition, I had two or three very bad days. I was full of doubts, sure I had made a terrible mistake. I was in this state of mind as I sat in the uncomfortable coach which was taking me to my new home.’ A young woman starts her first job as a governess in charge of two young orphans, Miles and Flora, at a country house called Bly. The children are beautiful and…
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Henry James The Turn of the ScrewThe narrator is a young governess, sent off to a country house to take charge of two orphaned children. She finds a pleasant house and a comfortable housekeeper, while the children are beautiful and charming. But she soon begins to feel the presence of intense evil.
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Henry James The Turn of the ScrewClassic / British English: A young woman comes to a big house to teach two young children. Its her first job and she wants to do it well. But she begins to see strange things the ghosts of dead people...
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Henry James The Turn of the ScrewClassic / British English. A young woman comes to a big house to teach two young children. It's her first job and she wants to do it well. But she begins to see strange things - the ghosts of dead people...
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Henry James The Turn of the Screw and Owen WingraveDesigned to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure...
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Henry James The Wings of the Dove ENShe found herself, for the first moment, looking at the mysterious portrait through tears. Perhaps it was her tears that made it just then so strange and fair ...the face of a young woman, all splendidly drawn, down to the hands, and splendidly dressed...And she was dead, dead, dead. Emerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her aunt, the beautiful and…
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Henry James Washington Square ENHenry James's heroine in Washington Square is the plain, shy heiress Catherine Sloper. Unaccustomed to courtship and susceptible to charm, Catherine falls deeply in love with the handsome opportunist Morris Townsend. Her father, Doctor Sloper, scenting a fortune-hunter, is confident he can prevent the marriage. So confident that, when persuasion fails, he attempts to protect Catherine by threatening to disinherit…
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Henry James Washingtonovo náměstíTřiadvacetiletá Catherine Sloperová, dcera vyhledávaného newyorského lékaře, je podle morálky vrcholného „zlatého věku“ zralá na vdávání. Je ale na soužití v páru skutečně připravená? Když na večírku pozná sympatického Morrise Townsenda, propadne...
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Henry James Wings of the Dove ENThe vivacious Kate Croy finds herself torn between love and money, friendship and ambition; “the crown of Henry James’s achievement.” Now a critically acclaimed film. Kate Croy is a beautiful but impoverished young woman forced to live with her successful but astringent Aunt, Maude Lower. Lower intends Kate to marry the aristocratic Lord Mark, but she is already in love with a journalist, Merton Densher. Though…
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