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21 de dez. de 2016 · Henry James > Quotes > Quotable Quote. (?) “Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.”. ― Henry James.
15 de mai. de 2024 · Henry James's "The Tragic Muse" delves into the complexities of art, ambition, and the intersection of personal and creative pursuits. Set against the backdr...
14 de mai. de 2024 · O. Henry (born September 11, 1862, Greensboro, North Carolina, U.S.—died June 5, 1910, New York, New York) was an American short-story writer whose tales romanticized the commonplace—in particular the life of ordinary people in New York City. His stories expressed the effect of coincidence on character through humour, grim or ironic, and ...
10 de mai. de 2024 · On prétend que Henry James n’aimait guère la musique. Cette opinion se fonde sur ce que l’écrivain confiait en 1876 dans une lettre à son père, au retour d’une soirée chez son ami Paul Zhukovsky, où un pianiste avait interprété des extraits de la Tétralogie toute nouvellement créée à Bayreuth : « Je me suis ennuyé, mais les autres étaient en extase ».
Há 6 dias · An equally famous quotation is to be found in the first edition of Murray’s Handbook for travellers in Northern Italy published forty years earlier: ‘no one enters Venice a stranger.’ (1842, p. 326) Both Henry James and the mediaevalist and anthologist, Francis Palgrave, responsible for the second observation, highlight how educated 19th-century men and women in the Anglophone world ...
Há 4 dias · The Turn of the Screw is a 20th-century English chamber opera composed by Benjamin Britten, with a libretto by Myfanwy Piper, based on the 1898 novella The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. [2] It concerns a young, inexperienced Governess sent to a country house to care for two children, whom she is gradually convinced have been corrupted by the ghosts of a previous manservant and governess.
7 de mai. de 2024 · Henry James A pivotal figure bridging literary realism and modernism celebrated as one of English literature's finest novelists. Henry Louis Gehrig An American baseball player, a.k.a the 'Iron Horse' of baseball, renowned for both hitting prowess and remarkable durability. Henry On The Popularity Chart
