Selected Short Stories (Modern Classics S.) DAISY MILLER, LAST OF THE VALERII, REAL THING, LESSON OF MASTER - Softcover

Henry James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140019197 ISBN 13: 9780140019193

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1982

Synopsis

Selected Short Stories: Daisy Miller (Penguin Modern Classics) by Henry James

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From the Back Cover:

The literary career of Henry James (1843-1916) ranks among the longest and most productive in American letters. The expatriate author, who ultimately adopted British citizenship, often portrayed the conflicts of American and European manners, morals, and world views. This original selection of outstanding stories published between 1879 and 1893 illustrates the master's talents to the fullest, offering ironic views of love and marriage as well as thought-provoking meditations on artistic and literary life.
Five tales include "Lord Beaupre," which concerns a bogus engagement; "The Real Thing," an exploration of the tension between reality and artistic technique; "The Middle Years," recounting an ailing author's reflections on a lifetime of artistic achievement; "Georgina's Reasons," in which a defiant young woman makes a secret marriage; and the ghost story "Sir Edmund Orme," which features a specter who haunts a young woman to ensure that she doesn't repeat her mother's mistake.
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About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0140019197
• ISBN 13: 9780140019193
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192