Henry James

Fourteen tales include "The Enormous Radio" by Cheever, Faulkner's "Dry September," Katherine Anne Porter's "He," "A Worn Path" by Eudora Welty, and tales by Hawthorne, Twain, Poe, Fitzgerald, Wharton, others.

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.

John Marcher attend. Il vit pénétré de la certitude que sa vie, tôt ou tard, va être bouleversée. Fascinée par cet homme si sûr de son destin, la belle et timide May Bartram décide de partager l'attente. Une amitié complice et durable naît de cette espérance commune. Alors que May est au plus mal, John se rend compte qu'il est peut-être passé à côté de sa vie... et d'une grande histoire. Henry James (1843-1916) est un écrivain américain de la fin du XIXe siècle.
Il est surtout connu pour ses romans et ses nouvelles, notamment Portrait de femme et Les Européens, disponible en Points. "L'esprit de James, brillant et singulier, s'impose à nous de toute sa force". The Guardian Traduit de l'anglais par Fabrice Hugot

Comment faire d'une énigme le principe même d'un récit ? Dans Le Motif dans le tapis, Henry James met en scène un critique littéraire qui consacre sa vie à la recherche du secret que le romancier Hugh Vereker l'invite à déchiffrer dans son oeuvre. L'obsession du narrateur gagne, tel un virus, le lecteur qui, à son tour, se passionne pour cette quête peut-être insensée. Quant à la nouvelle La Bête dans la jungle, elle raconte la destinée singulière d'un homme pétrifié par la conviction qu'un sort mystérieux lui est réservé... Diaboliquement efficaces, ces deux récits anticipent et détournent les codes du roman policier : le lecteur y est chaque fois impliqué dans une enquête qui met à l'épreuve ses propres certitudes, ébranle sa conception de la littérature et - pour James, cela revient au même - de la vie.

A Venise à la fin du XIXe siècle, un critique littéraire américain devient locataire de celle qui fut la muse et l'amante du poète Jeffrey Aspern afin de récupérer des manuscrits inédits. Le roman est accompagné de son adaptation théâtrale. Adapté au cinéma par Julien Landais en 2018.

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A wonderful new selection of Henry James's short stories exploring the relationship between art and life, edited by Michael Gorra. This volume gathers seven of the very best of Henry James's short stories, all focussing the relationship between art and life. In 'The Aspern Papers', a critic is determined to get his hands on a great poet's papers hidden in a faded Venetian house - not matter what the human cost.

'The Author of Beltraffio', 'The Lesson of the Master' and 'The Figure in the Carpet' all focus on naive young men's unsettling encounters with their literary heroes. In 'The Middle Years', a dying novelist begins to glimpse his own potential, while 'The Real Thing' and 'Greville Fane' both explore the tension between artistic and commercial success. These fables of the creative life reveal James at his ironic, provocative best.

Henry James was born in 1843 in New York and died in London in 1916. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875). They include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl.

Michael Gorra is Professor of English at Smith College and the author of Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece (2012), a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in biography.

The plot of this novel revolves around the feminist movement in Boston in the 1870s. F.R. Leavis called it one of "the two most brilliant novels in the language.

one of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous short stories and novels.