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Portrait of a Lady
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"The mere slim shade of an intelligent but presumptuous girl...a certain young woman affronting her destiny" is how Henry James describes his first perception of Isabel Archer, who grew into one of his most magnificent heroines. An American heiress newly arrived in Europe, Isabel does not look to a man to furnish her with her destiny; instead she ...
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Turn of the Screw
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In THE TURN OF THE SCREW, an innocent, impressionable young governess takes over the education of two delightful children, Flora and Miles, at an isolated country estate. She becomes convinced that the children's former governess and a valet once employed on the estate--both now dead--have returned and are trying to gain control of the children's ...
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Washington Square
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Henry James
At the age of twenty-two, Catherine Sloper is regarded as a rather mature blossom, such as could be plucked from the stem only with a vigorous tug. She is neither clever nor beautiful (her taste in dress verges on the vulgar), yet Morris Townsend finds Catherine exceedingly charming. Less, it must be admitted, because of her evident goodness and ...
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Daisy Miller
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Henry James
DAISY MILLER is often thought of as the quintessential James novel: the story of the innocent abroad who is corrupted by contact with an older, more sophisticated society. Daisy, a delightfully uninhibited young American, scandalizes the European community in which she is a visitor with her high spirits and disregard of ancient conventions. After ...
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Ambassadors
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Henry James
Lambert Strether is dispatched to Paris by the widowed Mrs. Newsome--his fiancée--to bring back her son Chadwick. It is rumored that Chad has fallen under the spell of a Frenchwoman of dubious reputation, and his mother wants him to return to take over the running of the Newsome Mills, in Massachusetts. Once in Paris, Strether undergoes a ...
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Technical Drawing
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Frederick E Giesecke
This book's practical, well-illustrated, step-by-step explanations of procedures have successfully trained users for 60 years, and continue to appeal to today's visually oriented users. This book offers the best coverage of basic graphics principles and an unmatched set of fully machinable working drawings.
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The Golden Bowl
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Henry James
Possibly James's most complex and difficult work, THE GOLDEN BOWL concerns four characters: the American art connoisseur Adam Verver, his daughter Maggie, Maggie's old school friend Charlotte Stant, and Charlotte's ex-suitor Prince Amerigo. The fabulously wealthy Ververs encounter the prince on their European tour, and he and Maggie fall in love ...
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Psychology
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Henry Gleitman, 4th
The first major text to treat psychology as a science, this book revolutionized the field of introductory psychology upon its debut in 1981. Henry Gleitman is joined by two noted scholars, Daniel Reisberg and Alan Fridlund, to produce this exciting new edition. Every chapter in the book has been updated with fully integrated coverage of the issues ...
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Wings of the Dove
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Henry James
In THE WINGS OF THE DOVE, Kate Croy, a penniless young Englishwoman, tries to arrange a marriage between her fiancé Merton Densher and the American heiress she has befriended, knowing that Millie, the heiress, has a fatal illness and not long to live. Informed about the situation, Millie generously leaves her money to Densher anyway, as proof of ...
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American
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Henry James
In this classic collision of the New World with Old Europe, James weaves a fable of thwarted desire that shifts between comedy, tragedy, romance, and melodrama. This revised edition features a new Introduction and Afterword by Leon Edel. Reissue.
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What Maisie Knew
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Henry James
James enters the consciousness of a very young child as she struggles to make sense of the world of the adults around her. The selfishness and corruption of her divorced parents and their new mates, paradoxically, affects Maisie only by making her wise beyond her years; her own moral sense remains untainted.
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Landing of the Pilgrims
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James Henry Daugherty
Based on the journals of actual Pilgrims, this is the story of how Pilgrims lived and how they and the Wapanog celebrated the first Thanksgiving.
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The Bostonians
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Henry James
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 into a celebrated activist and lifetime ...
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The Strategy Process
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Henry Mintzberg
We tried to provide the reader with a richness of theory, a richness of practice, and a strong basis for linkage between the two. Presenting published articles and portions of other books in their original form, rather than filtered through our minds and pens, is one way to reinforce this variety. One of our prime intentions in this book is to ...
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Northern Renaissance Art
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Spoils of Poynton
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Henry James
THE SPOILS OF POYNTON is a complex novel that describes the struggle between a mother and her son over a substantial inheritance that involves not only money and property but an important art collection. The narrative focus is on Fleda Vetch, who is in love with Owen Gereth, the putative heir, and who must cope not only with Owen's greedy, ...
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The Princess Casamassima
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Henry James
Hyacinth Robinson, an orphan, is raised by a spinster, Mrs. Pynset, in lower-class London. Inspired by the anarchist movement, Robinson pledges his life to the cause. When he meets the Princess Casamassima, separated from her wealthy Italian husband, he sees in her a kindred spirit, one whose proud artistic and aristocratic temperament is ...
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Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels
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H James
In THE TURN OF THE SCREW, an innocent, impressionable young governess takes over the education of two delightful children, Flora and Miles, at an isolated country estate. She becomes convinced that the children's former governess and a valet once employed on the estate--both now dead--have returned and are trying to gain control of the children's ...
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The Portrait of a Lady: An Authoritative Text, Henry James and the Novel, Reviews and Criticism
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Henry James
"The mere slim shade of an intelligent but presumptuous girl...a certain young woman affronting her destiny" is how Henry James describes his first perception of Isabel Archer, who grew into one of his most magnificent heroines. An American heiress newly arrived in Europe, Isabel does not look to a man to furnish her with her destiny; instead she ...
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Awkward Age
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Henry James
Henry James had arrived at such mastery of the forms and uses of fiction by the time he published The Awkward Age in 1899 that this story of a young girl introduced into a casually corrupt circle of sophisticates is at once a universal drama of innocence confronting evil, a detailed examination of a social order, and a stunning picture of a ...
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Aspern Papers
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Henry James
James's dense, complex prose style and his deep and subtle musings into the springs of character are as evident in his novellas and short stories as in his novels. Like much of his fiction, his shorter works are often about the contrasts between America and Europe, and many of them are influenced by the stories of Nathaniel Hawthorne.THE ASPERN ...
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Little Tour in France
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Henry James
I am ashamed to begin with saying that Touraine is the garden of France; that remark has long ago lost its bloom. The town of Tours, however, has some thing sweet and bright, which suggests that it is surrounded by a land of fruits. It is a very agreeable little city; few towns of its size are more ripe, more complete, or, I should suppose, in ...
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Turn of the Screw & the Aspern Papers
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Henry James
In these two chilling stories, Henry James shows himself to be a master of haunting atmosphere and unbearable tension. "The Turn of the Screw" tells of a young governess sent to a country home to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Unsettled by a sense of intense evil within the house, she soon becomes obsessed with the belief that ...
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Europeans
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Henry James
In this light-hearted novel, a brother and sister who have been raised in Europe travel to New England to visit their cousins, and the clash of customs, opinions, and moral values results in enlightenment for everyone involved.
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Ancient Law
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Sir Henry Sumner Maine
Best known as a history of progress, Ancient Law is the enduring work of the 19th-century legal historian Henry Sumner Maine. Even those who have never read Ancient Law may find Maine's famous phrase "from status to contract" familiar. His narrative spans the ancient world, in which individuals were tightly bound by status to traditional groups, ...
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