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22 de mai. de 2024 · Henry James was an American novelist and, as a naturalized English citizen from 1915, a great figure in the transatlantic culture. His fundamental theme was the innocence and exuberance of the New World in clash with the corruption and wisdom of the Old, as illustrated in such works as Daisy Miller
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- Henry James was an American novelist and critic. During his lifetime he wrote 20 novels, 112 tales, and 12 plays in addition to several volumes of...
- Henry James was born on April 15, 1843, in New York City. James was a well-traveled youth. As a teenager, he visited Geneva, Paris, and London. Jus...
- Henry James’s first short story, “A Tragedy of Error,” was published anonymously in The Continental Monthly in 1864. Shortly thereafter James befri...
- Henry James was a key transitional figure between literary realism and Modernism. James was interested in human behaviour and the inner workings of...
- Henry James was one of the most prolific writers of the 19th century. His most famous works included The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Bostonians...
- Henry James spent the last several years of his life in Great Britain. In protest of U.S. neutrality in World War I, James resigned his U.S. citize...
16 de mai. de 2024 · Henry James' novella Daisy Miller, features one of his greatest heroines. At first glance it seems to be a simple story of a lovely young, independent American girl traveling through Europe. But her flouting of social conventions has the potential to lead to catastrophe as she disrupts the rigid social rules of the Old World, attracting and ...
Há 3 dias · Daisy Miller. on KL Studio Classics Blu-ray. It’s only when the film slows down that it begins to come into its own. Before Bertrand Bonello transformed The Beast in the Jungle into a time-hopping, existentialist sci-fi melodrama, the most radical cinematic treatment of the work of Henry James was Peter Bogdanovich’s 1974 film maudit Daisy ...
21 de mai. de 2024 · The movie does have its surprising devotees. In his 2022 book of film essays Cinema Speculation, Quentin Tarantino spends a chapter praising Daisy Miller and the performances of Shepherd and...
Há 3 dias · The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway 's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan .
21 de mai. de 2024 · Daisy Miller is a free-spirited young American living abroad in Europe with her daffy mother and bratty kid brother. Liberated and very much ahead of her time, her behavior scandalizes the Victorian high society of 1878.
15 de mai. de 2024 · Amazingly, literary adaptations of the sort “Daisy Miller” represented were relatively rare in the early 1970s; 25 years later, they would become a staple of the Miramax and Sony Pictures ...
