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Arcturus The Ambassadors Джеймс Генри

Arcturus The Ambassadors Джеймс Генри

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Когда кроткий Ламберт Стрезер отправляется из Америки в Париж с миссией "спасти" Чада, сына своей грозной невесты, он вскоре обнаруживает, что жизнь в Европе совсем не такая, как он ожидал. Столкнувшись с соблазнами парижской культуры и возможностью эмоционального раскрепощения, Ламберт вынужден пересмотреть свои ценности • Полный присущего ему остроумия и проницательных наблюдений, Генри Джеймс провозгласил "Послов" своим величайшим романом • Книга на английском языке • When the mild-mannered Lambert Strether travels from America to Paris on a mission to 'save' Chad, the son of his formidable fiancee, he soon discovers that life in Europe is not at all what he had expected. Faced by the temptations of Parisian culture and the possibility of emotional liberation, Lambert is forced to reconsider his values подробнее
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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 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 conventions? In Daisy Miller Henry James created his first great portrait of the enigmatic and dangerously independent American woman, a figure who would come to dominate his later masterpieces • Oscar Wilde called James's chilling The Turn of the Screw 'a most wonderful, lurid poisonous little tale'
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«Фигура на ковре» — рассказ американского писателя Генри Джеймса, впервые опубликованный в 1896 году. Он рассказывается от первого лица; рассказчик, имя которого никогда не разглашается, встречает своего любимого автора и становится одержимым раскрытием тайного смысла всех произведений автора • Книга на английском языке • 'Did she know and if she knew would she speak?' • The story of an unsolved literary mystery that explores what James referred to as "troubled artistic consciousness" • Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe
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