Автор: Генри Джеймс

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Christopher Newman is an American expatriate in Paris; his fortune made, he has moved to the Old World to enjoy his wealth and find a wife. Newman soon falls for a young widow, the aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde, but his brash New World sensibility horrifies her haughty family. Though the family oppose the idea of the couple’s marriage, reversals of fortune cause them to reconsider. When another suitor arrives on the scene all appears lost, until Newman befriends Claire’s younger brother Valentin…

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘The place, with its grey sky and withered garlands, its bared spaces and scattered dead leaves, was like a theatre after the performance-all strewn with crumpled playbills.’Revered as one of the greatest ghost stories ever told, James’s The Turn of the Screw is an eerie Victorian masterpiece.When an inexperienced governess goes to work at Bly, a country house in Essex to look after a young boy Miles and his sister Flora, all manner of strange events begin to occur. The governess spots a ghostly man and…

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.’Isabel Archer is a beautiful, intelligent and independent young woman. Brought from America to England by her wealthy Aunt who seeks to further her education and find her niece a husband, Isabel is determined to shape her own future – one that does not necessarily entail becoming a wife. Isabel inherits a fortune when her rich uncle dies and feels even more inclined to turn down two eligible suitors on the basis that she is a woman of…

Главный герой, связанный помолвкой с юной соотечественницей, знакомится с красавицей американкой, наследницей громадного состояния. С каждым днем положение становится все более двусмысленным – понятно, что ничем хорошим эта история закончиться не может… Впервые русский читатель получил возможность познакомиться с…

Генри Джеймс (1843–1916) – американский и английский писатель, крупная фигура трансатлантической культуры рубежа XIX–XX вв. В предлагаемую вниманию читателей книгу вошли повесть «Дейзи Миллер» и новелла «Ученик». Книга адресована студентам языковых вузов и всем любителям англоязычной…

Впервые на русском – знаменитый роман американского классика, мастера психологических нюансов и тонких переживаний, автора таких признанных шедевров, как «Поворот винта», «Бостонцы» и «Женский портрет». Англия, самое начало ХХ века. Небогатая девушка Кейт Крой, живущая на попечении у вздорной тетушки, хочет вопреки ее воле…

A level 4 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Kieran McGovern. When a handsome young man begins to court Catherine Sloper, she feels she is very lucky. She is a quiet, gentle girl, but neither beautiful nor clever; no one had ever admired her before, or come to the front parlour of her home in Washington Square to whisper soft words of love to her. But in New York in the 1840s young ladies are not free to marry where they please. Catherine must have her father’s permission, and Dr Sloper is a rich man. One day Catherine will have a fortune of 30,000…

An epic, ambitious and page-turning mystery that will appeal to fans of The Shadow of the Wind, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell and The Time Traveller’s WifeLondon, 1896. Andrew Harrington is young, wealthy and heartbroken. His lover Marie Kelly was murdered by Jack the Ripper and he longs to turn back the clock and save her.Meanwhile, Claire Haggerty rails against the position of women in Victorian society. Forever being matched with men her family consider suitable, she yearns for a time when she can be free to love whom she choses.But hidden in the attic of popular author – and noted…