Последние издания книг Генри Джеймса

Молодой американец Фредерик Уинтерборн приезжает в маленький швейцарский городок Веве, где случайно знакомится с семьей своих соотечественников – мисс Миллер и ее детьми: девятилетним Рэндольфом и его старшей сестрой Дэзи. Красивая и самоуверенная девушка не только увлекает Уинтерборна, но и ставит его перед дилеммой, которую он не может разрешить. Намеренно ли она своим откровенным поведением пренебрегает общественными устоями или же она просто ничего не знает о них?

В 1898 году увидела свет одна из самых известных историй о привидениях, маленький шедевр, послуживший литературной основой множества театральных постановок и более десятка экранизаций, — повесть американского писателя Генри Джеймса «Поворот винта». В интерпретации Джеймса классический сюжет о гувернантке, прибывшей в уединенную усадьбу Блай заботиться об осиротевших детях, вышел далеко за привычные рамки готической литературы, воплотившись в изысканное и пугающее повествование о тайнах бытия и темных закоулках сознания, о мире, в котором любая истина может быть оспорена и за каждым событием может последовать очередной «поворот винта»…

Тема двойничества в литературе возникала ещё в фольклоре и мифологии (например, в «Старшей Эдде»). Авторы вводят двойников в произведения для различных целей: исследование идентичности, символизация внутреннего конфликта, критика и саморефлексия, создание напряжения и интриги. Образ двойника получил популярность в эпоху романтизма. В этом сборнике представлены как популярные рассказы – «Тайный сообщник» Дж. Конрада, – так и малоизвестные рассказы Г. Джеймса, Дж. К. Бангза, У. Дж. Уинтла, Э. Блэквуда, Дж. Конрада, Ф. М. Кроуфорда, Э. Дж. Бульвер-Литтона, Б. Стокера. Раздвоение личности, страшные истории близнецов; внезапная встреча с…

Тема двойничества в литературе возникала ещё в фольклоре и мифологии (например, в "Старшей Эдде"). Авторы вводят двойников в произведения для различных целей: исследование идентичности , символизация внутреннего конфликта, критика и саморефлексия, создание напряжения и интриги. Образ двойника получил популярность в эпоху романтизма. В этом сборнике представлены как популярные рассказы "Вильям Вильсон" Э. А. По, "Тайный сообщник" Дж. Конрада, так и малоизвестные рассказы Г. Джеймса, Дж. К. Бангза, У. Дж. Уинтли, Э. Блэквуда, Дж. Конрада, А. Бирса, Ф. М. Кроуфорда, Э. Дж. Бульвер-Литтона, Б. Стокера. Раздвоение личности, страшные истории…

Генри Джеймс — англо-американский писатель, признанный классик мировой литературы и мастер тонкого психологического романа. "Женский портрет" — наиболее значимое его произведение и один из величайших романов, в истории литературы. Изабель Арчер — молодая аристократка, которая отвергает женихов, мечтая перед замужеством увидеть мир. Получив внушительное наследство, она отправляется в путешествие, в котором влюбляется в брата своей подруги. Выйдя замуж, Изабель постепенно, что связала свою жизнь с коварным и жестоким человеком.

Англия, конец XIX века. Усадьбы Истмид и Баундс разделяет река. В обоих домах внимательно следят за тем, что происходит у соседей. Жизнь течет своим чередом, пока однажды в Истмид не приезжает миловидная дальняя родственница, а в Баундс — давняя подруга хозяйки. Их чаяния сойдутся на одном мужчине и одном ребенке. История о разрушительных последствиях человеческих страстей от автора «Поворота винта» продолжает совместную серию переводов Букмейта и «Подписных изданий». Книга переведена в рамках совместной мастерской Букмейта и Дома творчества Переделкино.

Драматический роман с элементами детектива от автора «Поворота винта» и «Дэзи Миллер». Англия, конец XIX века. Усадьбы Истмид и Баундс разделяет река. В обоих домах внимательно следят за тем, что происходит у соседей. Жизнь идет своим чередом, пока однажды в Истмид не приезжает миловидная дальняя родственница, а в Баундс — давняя подруга хозяйки. Их чаяния сойдутся на одном мужчине и одном ребенке. История о разрушительных последствиях человеческих страстей продолжает серию «Переводы Букмейта» — совместный проект с «Подписными изданиями» и «Мастерской Брусникина». Книга переведена под руководством Александра Глазырина в рамках…

Генри Джеймс (1843 –1916) — американский писатель и литературный критик. Поздний период его творчества — к которому относятся в том числе заглавные рассказы этого сборника — характеризуется замысловатым и неординарным стилем повествования. Длинные витиеватые предложения имитируют течение устной речи, по спирали единого мотива уводя читателя к центру смыслового водоворота.
Сборник включает два рассказа Генри Джеймса: "The Beast in the Jungle" и "The Figure in the Carpet". В центре каждого из них находится персонаж, одержимый идеей: один живет в предчувствии катастрофы, которая должна разрушить его жизнь; второй ищет разгадку тайны, спрятанную между строк романов.
Рассказы публикуются на английском языке без адаптации и сокращений.

An unnamed young governess is sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora. Yet she is soon oppressed by a sense of foreboding and deep disquiet, becoming convinced that something dark is threatening her young charges. But are supernatural forces at work, or is the danger something altogether more earthly?
Henry James’s masterpiece, and widely considered to be the greatest ghost story ever written, The Turn of the Screw remains the apogee of suspenseful, haunting writing in the English language.
Contains: Extract from the Preface to Vol. 12 of the New York Edition (1908), notes, extra material on Henry James’s life and works and a select bibliography.

Contains the Preface to the 1908 Edition
Having travelled from her native New York to London to meet her relatives, Isabel Archer, a young, independently minded young woman, rejects the marriage proposals of two suitors in her determination to stay in control of her destiny. When she suddenly comes into a large legacy, Isabel believes that this windfall will finally ensure the freedom that she yearns for and embarks on an exhilarating journey through France and Italy, only to find her endeavours thwarted by the sinister plotting of some of her acquaintances.
Considered by many to be Henry James’s finest novel, The Portrait of a Lady is a subtle examination of Victorian society and power relations, providing a groundbreaking psychological study of its protagonist. This volume is based on the authoritative New York Edition, and includes the author’s seminal preface. It includes an extensive critical apparatus, extra reading material including a section of photographs and notes.

Henry James's highly charged study of adultery, jealousy and possession, The Golden Bowl is edited with an introduction and notes by Ruth Bernard Yeazell in Penguin Classics.
Maggie Verver, a young American heiress, and her widowed father Adam, a billionaire collector of objets d'art, lead a life of wealth and refinement in London. They are both getting married: Maggie to Prince Amerigo, an impoverished Italian aristocrat, and Adam to the beautiful but penniless Charlotte Stant, a friend of his daughter. But both father and daughter are unaware that their new conquests share a secret - one for which all concerned must pay the price. Henry James's late, great work both continues and challenges his theme of confrontation between American innocence and European experience.
This edition of The Golden Bowl contains a chronology, suggested further reading, a glossary, notes and an introduction by Ruth Bernard Yeazall discussing James's original conception of the novel and later changes made to its structure and characters.
Henry James (1843-1916) son of a prominent theologian, and brother to the philosopher William James, was one of the most celebrated novelists of the fin-de-siecle. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, biography and autobiography, and much travel writing, he wrote some twenty novels.
His novella 'Daisy Miller' (1878) established him as a literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic, and his other novels in Penguin Classics include Washington Square (1880), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), What Maisie Knew (1897), The Awkward Age (1899), The Wings of the Dove (1902) and The Ambassadors (1903).

Kate and Densher are in love and want to get married. Densher is a poor journalist, and Kate's aunt tells her that she must marry someone rich. But Kate has a plan. She decides to deceive Milly, a sweet young heiress who is very ill. She wants Milly to marry Densher so he can get her money after she dies. Will Kate's plan succeed?
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.
Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.
The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.
The Wings of the Dove, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.

Catherine Sloper is not pretty or clever, but she is rich. She lives in New York with her father, the respected doctor, Austin Sloper. One day, Catherine meets a charming man called Maurice Townsend, who wants to marry her. But does Maurice really love Catherine, or does he just want her money? Doctor Sloper is sure that he knows the answer.
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.
Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.
The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.
Washington Square, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present perfect simple, passives, phrasal verbs and simple relative clauses. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.

Travelling in Europe with her family, Daisy Miller, an exquisitely beautiful young American woman, presents her fellow-countryman Winterbourne with a dilemma he cannot resolve. Is she deliberately flouting social convention in the outspoken way she talks and acts, or is she simply ignorant of those conventions? When she strikes up an intimate friendship with an urbane young Italian, her flat refusal to observe the codes of respectable behaviour leave her perilously exposed. In Daisy Miller James created his first great portrait of the enigmatic and dangerously independent American woman, a figure who would come to dominate his later masterpieces.

What Maisie Knew is Henry James's damning portrait of adultery, jealousy and possession on the decadent fringe of English upper-class society. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction and notes by Christopher Ricks.
After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself turned into a 'little feathered shuttlecock' to be swatted back and forth by her selfish mother, Ida, and her vain father, Beale, who value her only as a means of provoking one another. When both take lovers and remarry, Maisie - solitary, observant and wise beyond her years - is drawn into an entangled adult world of intrigue and sexual betrayal, until she is at last able to cooperate in choosing her own future. As time conquers innocence, Henry James masterfully portrays Maisie's consciousness developing from simple childlike 'wonder' to a rich, morally-scrupulous adult mind.
This edition of What Maisie Knew includes a chronology, suggested further reading, three contemporary reviews, Henry James's own commentaries on the work, and an introduction that examines how children figured in his predecessors' novels, and how war is waged between the sexes in What Maisie Knew.
Henry James (1843-1916) son of a prominent theologian, and brother to the philosopher William James, was one of the most celebrated novelists of the fin-de-siecle. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, biography and autobiography, and much travel writing, he wrote some twenty novels.
His novella 'Daisy Miller' (1878) established him as a literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic, and his other novels in Penguin Classics include Washington Square (1880), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Awkward Age (1899), The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904)

Henry James's classic tale of romance in urban nineteenth-century America, Washington Square is edited with an introduction and notes by Martha Banta in Penguin Classics.
When timid and plain Catherine Sloper is courted by the dashing and determined Morris Townsend, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, delivers an ultimatum: break off her engagement, or be stripped of her inheritance. Torn between her desire to win her father's love and approval and her passion for the only man who has ever declared his love for her, Catherine faces an agonising dilemma, and becomes all too aware of the restrictions that others seek to place on her freedom. James's masterly novel deftly interweaves the public and private faces of nineteenth-century New York society; it is also a deeply moving study of innocence destroyed.
This edition of Washington Square includes a chronology, suggested further reading, notes and an introduction discussing the novel's lasting influence and James's depiction of the quiet strength of his heroine.
Henry James (1843-1916) son of a prominent theologian, and brother to the philosopher William James, was one of the most celebrated novelists of the fin-de-siecle. His novella 'Daisy Miller' (1878) established him as a literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic, and his other novels in Penguin Classics include Washington Square (1880), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Awkward Age (1899), The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904).

The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to 'live well', Henry James's The Ambassadors is edited with an introduction and notes by Adrian Poole in Penguin Classics.
Concerned that her son Chad may have become involved with a woman of dubious reputation, the formidable Mrs Newsome sends her 'ambassador' Strether from Massachusetts to Paris to extricate him. Strether's mission, however, is gradually undermined as he falls under the spell of the city and finds Chad refined rather than corrupted by its influence and that of his charming companion, Madame de Vionnet, and her daughter, Jeanne. As the summer wears on, Mrs Newsome concludes that she must send another envoy to confront the errant Chad - and a Strether whose view of the world has changed profoundly. One of the greatest of James's late works, The Ambassadors is a subtle and witty exploration of different responses to a European environment.
This edition of The Ambassadors includes a chronology, further reading, glossary, notes and an introduction discussing the novel in the context of James's other works on Americans in Europe, and the novel's portrayal of Paris.
Henry James (1843-1916) son of a prominent theologian, and brother to the philosopher William James, was one of the most celebrated novelists of the fin-de-siecle. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, biography and autobiography, and much travel writing, he wrote some twenty novels. His novella 'Daisy Miller' (1878) established him as a literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic, and his other novels in Penguin Classics include Washington Square (1880), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Awkward Age (1899), The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904)

How can I retrace today the strange steps of my obsession...
The Turn of the Screw tells the tale of an unnamed governess who lives with her two charges in an isolated country house. After living for a while in blissful harmony, the governess begins to spy ghostly apparitions roaming the grounds. She becomes obsessed with these figures that only she can see, and strives to protect the children from their malevolent designs. But the situation soon begins to spiral out of control.
This uneasy and sinister novella is a genius work of horror fiction, surrounding the terrors that emerge from everyday life.

A study of conflict between father and daughter, this is the story of Catherine, the plain, obedient daughter of Dr August Sloper of Washington Square, New York. When Morris Townsend, a handsome man-about-town, proposes to Catherine, her father forbids the marriage, believing Townsend to be after his daughtera€s inheritance.