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Daisy Miller / Henry James. - London : Penguin Books, 1995. - 88 s. ; 18 cm.

(Penguin Popular Classics)

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James Henry (1843-1916).

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Literatura amerykańska

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American literature American novel James Henry

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? When she strikes up an intimate friendship with an urbane young Italian, her flat refusal to observe the codes of respectable behaviour leave her perilously exposed. In Daisy Miller James created his first great portrait of the enigmatic and dangerously independent American woman, a figure who would come to dominate his later masterpieces.

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Biblioteka Główna. Magazyny

There are copies available to loan: sygn. 4359.XXVIII.1 [Magazyn 1], 4361.XXVIII.1 [Magazyn 1], 4360.XXVIII.1 [Magazyn 1], 4362.XXVIII.1 [Magazyn 1] (4 egz.)

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Daisy Miller and other stories / Henry James. - London : Penguin Books, cop. 1983. - 192 strony ; 18 cm.

(Penguin Modern Classics)

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James Henry (1843-1916) Autor

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Literatura amerykańska

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Opowiadanie amerykańskie

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American literature American novel anthology James Henry

These tightly written and popular short stories introduce key issues that are to feature even more prominently in Henry James’ later and more substantial fiction: social attitudes and class, the conflict between American and European cultures - or at least the dilemmas that the two worlds present to his central characters, and the presence of strong, sometimes wayward, but intelligent young women. "Daisy Miller" dominates this small collection and although it is nothing like so ambitious a work as for example the full blown novels, “The Portrait of a Lady” and “The Wings of the Dove” and several others, it is a sharply observed miniature with much to admire and enjoy. James’ penchant for long, involved sentences can be off-putting to the modern reader in particular, but I’d suggest that it’s well worth the effort to persevere. The Wordsworth editions of the classics are wonderful value and often include, as here, most illuminating introductions. It is only a shame that to justify the price rather a small font is almost invariably met with.

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Biblioteka Główna. Magazyny

There are copies available to loan: sygn. 11161.XXVIII.1 [Magazyn 1] (1 egz.)

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The Turn of the Screw / Henry James. - London : Penguin Books, 1994. - 120, [1] s. ; 18 cm.

(Penguin Popular Classics)

Author

James Henry (1843-1916).

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POWIEŚĆ AMERYKAŃSKA JAMES, HENRY (1843-1916). The Turn of the Screw

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American novel American literature novel James Henry

A very young woman's first job: governess for two weirdly beautiful, strangely distant, oddly silent children, Miles and Flora, at a forlorn estate...An estate haunted by a beckoning evil. Half-seen figures who glare from dark towers and dusty windows- silent, foul phantoms who, day by day, night by night, come closer, ever closer. With growing horror, the helpless governess realizes the fiendish creatures want the children, seeking to corrupt their bodies, possess their minds, own their souls... But worse-much worse- the governess discovers that Miles and Flora have no terror of the lurking evil. For they want the walking dead as badly as the dead want them.

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Biblioteka Główna. Magazyny

There are copies available to loan: sygn. 11271.XXVIII.1 [Magazyn 1] (1 egz.)

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The Portrait of a Lady / Henry James. - Londyn : Penguin, [1997]. - 544 s. ; 18 cm.

(Penguin Popular Classics)

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James Henry (1843-1916).

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POWIEŚĆ AMERYKAŃSKA JAMES, HENRY (1843-1916). The portrait of a lady

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novel James Henry American literature The portrait of a lady American novel

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Biblioteka Główna. Magazyny

There are copies available to loan: sygn. 11228.XXVIII.1 [Magazyn 1], 1705.XXVIII.1 [Magazyn 1], 11229.XXVIII.1 [Magazyn 1], 2869.XXVIII.1 [Magazyn 1], 11252.XXVIII.1 [Magazyn 1], 11230.XXVIII.1 [Magazyn 1] (6 egz.)