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The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)
hmm.: I like this book. Have to say though, I found it to be a tough read. I hestitate to say anything bad about it, because everyone else gave it 5 star reviews, so I feel like I must've missed the real magic in it. overall, it was ok. I never found the [... more]
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The American (Penguin Classics)
Beauty and the Beast: This is about a successful American businessman in his thirties who leaves the USA, having made his fortune in copper and railroads, to travel around Europe and to find a wife. He encounters an old friend in the Louvre who takes him [... more]
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The Wings of the Dove (Penguin Classics)
Amazon.com Review: The Wings of the Dove is a classic example of Henry James's morality tales that play off the naiveté of an American protagonist abroad. In early-20th-century London, Kate Croy and Merton Densher are engaged in a passionate, [... more]
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The Spoils of Poynton (Penguin Classics)
A beautifully made parable: Fleda is gifted with sensitivity to beauty. She finds it in the "things" her friend Mrs. Gereth has spent a lifetime collecting and in Mrs. Gereth's son, Owen. If Fleda acted with even a touch of cunning -- or just [... more]
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What Maisie Knew (Penguin Classics)
Several Turns of the Screw: What hubris to review a work by such a major novelist as Henry James, even though WHAT MAISIE KNEW may not be one of his major novels! All the same, a review can perhaps be useful in two regards: by commenting on this [... more]
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The Tragic Muse (Penguin Classics)
The Lessons of the Master: In an interview, Vladimir Nabokov once spoke of the distinction Russians draw between a genius (such as Tolstoy), and a mere "talent", and the example Nabokov gave of the latter was Henry James. Nabokov never did rate [... more]
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The Ambassadors (Penguin Classics)
Amazon.com Review: The Ambassadors, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of [... more]
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The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories (Penguin ...
Author: Henry James Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.4 EAN: 9780140432558 ISBN: 0140432558 Number Of Pages: 464 Publication Date: 1986-08-05 [... more]
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Roderick Hudson (Penguin Classics)
It's Funny That I'm the First...: I wonder why the discrimination (is it ignorance?) exists regarding James's first great work, "Roderick Hudson." Yes, it is early James, and yes, snobs, it is very "readable." It's a page turner, the [... more]
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The Europeans: A Sketch (Penguin Classics)
first time disappointment: I have often been exasperated with Henry James and his determination to make a simple sentence into a complicated puzzle and an intellectual game. But I have never been disappointed by James until now. I was surprised to see [... more]
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The Princess Casamassima (Penguin Classics)
Taming His Inner Anarchist: The Princess Casamassima is fascinating for the way it takes James out of his comfort zone to depict the social world of workingmen, dressmakers, shopgirls, pub goers and (most improbably) underground revolutionaries in late [... more]
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Daisy Miller (Penguin Classics)
Peters out: I enjoyed most of this novel while I was reading, and I think that the writing is technically proficient. The end was a great disappointment, and left me wondering why I spend the time reading this mercifully short piece. At least I can say [... more]
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