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Daisy Miller and Other Stories by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's most attractive heroines: she represents youth and frivolity. As a tourist in Italy, her American freedom and freshness of spirit come up against the corruption and hypocrisy of European manners. From its first publication, readers on both sides of the Atlantic have ...Show more
Daisy Miller and Other Tales by Henry James
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Category: Classics
Brought together here with further tales of cultural conflict, these stories are subtle, affecting variations on the 'international theme' that would dominate James's novels
Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
$14.99 AUD
Category: Classics
The Penguin English Library Edition of Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw by Henry James"I'm a fearful, frightful flirt! Did you ever hear of a nice girl that was not?" This edition contains two of Henry James's most popular short works. Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisi ...Show more
Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Civil War by George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History James M McPherson (Princeton University)
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$27.99 (8% off)
Category: History
From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of "Battle Cry of Freedom," a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. Many Americans of his own time and in later generations considered him an incompetent leader, not to men ...Show more
Ghost Stories of Henry James by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury. Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or straightforwardly marvellous and the darker ...Show more
Italian Hours by Henry James
$27.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Henry James was a renowned observer of European culture, both in his fiction and in his life. In particular, he loved Italy, visiting it 14 times and setting several of his novels in the country. Between 1873 and 1909 he also wrote numerous essays and travelogues that were ultimately collected into one ...Show more
Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level by James K. Sebenius; R. Nicholas Burns; Robert H. Mnookin; Henry Kissinger (Foreword by)
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Category: Politics
Foreword by Henry KissingerIn this groundbreaking, definitive guide to the art of negotiation, three Harvard professors offer a comprehensive examination of one of the most successful dealmakers of all time, Henry Kissinger, and some of his most impressive achievements, including the Paris Peace Accords ...Show more
Kissinger the Negotiator : Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level by James K. Sebenius; R. Nicholas Burns; Robert H. Mnookin; Henry Kissinger (Foreword by)
$45.00 AUD
Category: Politics
Foreword by Henry KissingerIn this groundbreaking, definitive guide to the art of negotiation, three Harvard professors offer a comprehensive examination of one of the most successful dealmakers of all time, Henry Kissinger, and some of his most impressive achievements, including the Paris Peace Accords ...Show more
Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
Surrounded by the artists, writers and musicians who made up her court in Boston as they did in Venice, Isabella Stewart Gardner, a passionate art collector, was as revered and sought after as royalty. Henry James was inspired by the rich and powerful Gardner, as well as by the Palazzo Barbaro in Venice ...Show more
Portrait of a Lady (Penguin English Library) by Henry James
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Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James. 'She knew of no wrong that he had done; he was not violent, he was not cruel; she simply believed that he hated her'. When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Tou ...Show more
Selected Tales by Henry James
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Category: Classics
Henry James, (1843-1916) was born in New York and settled in Europe in 1875. This is a selection of short stories from across James's writing career and includes the more popular ones such as "Daisy Miller" and "The Figure in the Carpet", along with less widely-known tales.
The 60s : The Story of a Decade by The New Yorker Magazine Staff; Renata Adler (Contribution by); Hannah Arendt (Contribution by); James Baldwin (Contribution by); Truman Capote (Contribution by); Henry Finder (Editor); David Remnick (Introduction by)
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Category: History | Series: New Yorker: the Story of a Decade Ser.
The third installment of a fascinating decade-by-decade series, this anthology collects historic New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century--including work by James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, Muriel Spark, and John Updike--alongside new assessments ...Show more