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The Turn of the Screw has been described by many critics as the most sophisticated and terrifying ghost story in the English language. It is considered one of the great intellectual "spook tales" of all time. The story concerns a naive young governess who is hired to take care of two children in a large mansion in the English countryside. Everything is going fine, until she discovers that the children are not as innocent as they seem.

The novel tells the story of beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong Isabel Archer, as she leaves her native America and embarks on a journey of self discovery in Europe. Published as a book in 1881, it explores his familiar themes including the conflict between American individualism and European social custom and the situation of Americans in Europe. It also treats in a profound way the themes of personal freedom, responsibility, betrayal, and sexuality.

Wealthy Maggie Verver has everything she could ever ask for - except a husband and a title. While in Italy, acquiring art for his museum back in the States, Maggie’s millionaire father, Adam, decides to remedy this and acquire a husband for Maggie. Enter Prince Amerigo, of a titled but now poor aristocratic Florentine family. Amerigo is the perfect candidate.

Released in our new Young Adult Classics format, Henry James's classic ghost story is a masterpiece of the supernatural. The tale is taken from the diary of a governess, who describes her mounting sense of paranoia at the relationship between her two wards and the ghostly figures that haunt the estate.

In The Europeans, Eugenia, Baroness Munster, is about to be repudiated by her husband, a German prince. With her artist brother, she travels to Boston to visit relatives that she has never met in the hope of finding a wealthy new husband. Their uncle, Mr. Wentworth, sets them up in a nearby house, and his children, Gertrude, Charlotte, and Clifford, soon become friends with their newly found cousins.

Miss Daisy, una muchacha americana hermosa y libre de mediados del siglo XIX, pasa unas semanas en Suiza para continuar después su periplo europeo en Roma. Su belleza y comportamiento desenfadado deslumbran al joven Winterboune, y a su vez irrita a la tía del joven, paradigma de la rígida sociedad de la época.

Milly Theale is a young, beautiful, and fabulously wealthy American. When she arrives in London and meets the equally beautiful but impoverished Kate Croy, they form an intimate friendship. But nothing is as it seems; materialism, romance, self-delusion, and ultimately fatal illness, insidiously contaminate the glamorous social whirl.

The Portrait of a Lady tells the compelling and ultimately tragic tale of a beautiful young American woman's encounter with European sophistication. Set principally in England and Italy, we follow Isabel Archer's fortunes as a variety of admirers vie for her hand. Her choices will be crucial, and she is not wanting for advice, whether from the generous-spirited Ralph Touchett or the charming but rootless Madame Merle....

"The American" is a novel by Henry James was originally published as a serial in "The Atlantic Monthly" in 1876-1877 and then as a book in 1877. The novel is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman, an essentially good-hearted but rather gauche American businessman on his first tour of Europe. Newman is looking for a world different from the simple, harsh realities of 19th century American business.

Hudson is a young law student in Northampton, Massachusetts, who shows such surprising ability as a sculptor that the rich Rowland Mallett, visiting a cousin in Northampton, decides to stake him to several years of study in Rome, then a center of expatriate American society. The story has to do not only with Roderick's growth as an artist and the problems it brings, but also as a man susceptible to his new environment, and indeed his occasional rivalries with his American friend and patron.

Un uomo inglese di mezz'età torna a Firenze, dopo essersene allontanato 25 anni prima. Il ritorno nella città toscana lo porta a rivivere nel ricordo...

Una giovane istitutrice viene assunta per prendersi cura di due orfani in una antica dimora della campagna inglese: Flora, una bambina di 8 anni, e Miles, un ragazzino poco più grande. I bambini sono adorabili ma l'istitutrice ha il cosiddetto "sesto senso" cioè vede aggirarsi attorno alla dimora di campagna i fantasmi di due persone defunte che hanno lavorato l'anno prima per quella stessa famiglia.

"Daisy Miller", scritto nel 1878, è considerato uno dei capolavori dello scrittore americano Henry James. Ritratto intenso di una giovane americana che, nella buona società europea (la trama si dipana dalla Svizzera alla stupenda e decadente Roma dei papi), viene giudicata troppo libera (se ne va a passeggio per Roma dopo il tramonto, sola con un giovanotto che non è nemmeno il suo fidanzato...) e quindi imperdonabilmente poco seria, e messa al bando; solo dopo la sua morte improvvisa sapremo, insieme al protagonista narratore, che Daisy era assolutamente innocente, non una civetta o peggio, ma semplicemente una ragazza libera, indipendente, spontanea e disinteressata, amante del passeggiare e vagabondare, oppressa dai lacci delle convenzioni sociali che imprigionavano le donne.

Am Kamin eines südenglischen Landhauses wird eine Geistergeschichte vorgelesen: Eine Gouvernante kümmert sich auf dem Landsitz Bly um zwei Waisenkinder. Schon bald erscheinen ihr immer wieder Geister, in denen sie den früheren Diener und ihre Vorgängerin zu erkennen glaubt, die auf mysteriöse Weise gestorben sind. Um die Kinder vor ihnen zu retten, steigert sich die Gouvernante in einen Wahn, mit dem sie den Kindern jedoch mehr schadet als hilft.

En este relato de Henry James, una mujer con una personalidad un tanto extraña y misteriosa, que dice guiarse por premoniciones, va a explicar la historia de unos manuscritos que son encontrados por casualidad y que contienen una serie de declaraciones comprometedoras, a un escritor que ignora que a veces la felicidad está tan sólo a la vuelta de la esquina.

Caroline Spencer ist zauberhaft und sie hat einen Traum: Sie möchte den Atlantik überqueren und durch Europa reisen. Vier Mal trifft der Erzähler auf jene bezaubernde Caroline Spencer und spricht mit ihr über ihre Träume, Zukunftspläne und Wünsche. Und aus der einst zurückhaltenden Caroline Spencer wird mit jeder Begegnung eine mutigere und entschlossenere Frau. Doch der Erzähler sieht Caroline Spencer in Gefahr und seine Vorahnungen scheinen sich zu erfüllen. Henry James (1843-1916) war ein amerikanisch-britischer Schriftsteller.

En Los papeles de Aspern se debaten la pasión de un editor en busca de los "papeles" de su poeta favorito, la astucia de la mujer centenaria que fue amante del poeta y guarda celosamente esos papeles, y la estúpida ingenuidad de la sobrina, que se convierte en el eje de la lucha sorda y tensa entre el editor y la anciana. Toda la narración está envuelta en misterio, casi en suspense.

¿Qué puede hacer una institutriz, sola en un aislado caserón, para proteger a sus dos pupilos del lento acoso de los fantasmas? Nos hallamos ante uno de los mejores argumentos de la literatura moderna. Henry James (1843 - 1916) fue un escritor y crítico literario estadounidense y nacionalizado británico, conocido por sus novelas y relatos basados en el punto de vista, técnica que le permitió el análisis psicológico de sus personajes. Narrador de dramas costumbristas, también se interesó por el género de intriga, suspenso y lo sobrenatural.

Este relato de Henry James es una fantástica puerta de entrada al autor victoriano. James teje la historia de un hombre enamorada de la esposa de su mejor amigo, y su resistencia hacia sus propios sentimientos.

Viola y Perdita son dos jóvenes muy bellas de buena familia que, sin poder evitarlo, se enamoran del mismo hombre: Arthur Lloyd. Y éste se ve en la tesitura de tener que elegir una de entre las dos.Aunque las dos hermanas se aseguran la una a la otra que no sentirán envidia de la que resulte elegida, los sentimientos son difíciles de controlar. Cuando Viola ve que su hermana Perdita es la elegida por el señor Lloyd, no puede evitar sentir un odio, que se va acrecentando con el tiempo, hacia su hermana.