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5 de jul. de 2024 · 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 travel writing and criticism. Today he is best remembered as the author of the novel The Portrait of a Lady (1881) and the novella The Turn of the Screw (1898).
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- 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...
13 de jul. de 2024 · At first glance, A Tragedy of Error seems a very different beast to (arguably) Henry James’s most famous short story, The Turn of the Screw. In fact, the two tales bookend his writing career: The Turn of the Screw (1897) is one of James’s later works, while A Tragedy of Error (1864) is his first published story.
3 de jul. de 2024 · The Turn of the Screw explores madness and sanity through the unreliable narration of the governess, whose perceptions of ghostly apparitions and the children's behavior are...
Há 5 dias · The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centres on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi ; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena ...
Há 3 dias · Henry James’ The Turn of the Screw is a ghost story CLASSIC. The plot concerns a young governess who has been hired by a wealthy family to watch over their two little children.
9 de jul. de 2024 · The Turn of the Screw - Henry James, The Turning (2020), Stranger Things RPF. Мы лежали в гамаке в яблоневом саду, залитые теплым закатным августовским солнцем и лениво целовались. Кожа к коже, я — в легком платье, он — в ...
29 de jun. de 2024 · Opera in a prologue and two acts by Britten to a libretto by Myfanwy Piper after Henry James's story (1898) (Venice, 1954). From: Turn of the Screw, The in The Oxford Companion to Music »
