The Finer Grain

Henry James

The Finer Grain a collection of small stories. The A Round of Visits is a thoughtful tragedy that triggered the opening of Watch and Trusteeship. The Bench of Desolation, located in an English seaside town, is a touching story of reconciliation after some very offensive and bitter misunderstandings.

The Golden Bowl

Henry James

This is the biography of Henry Morgan, the pirate admiral. In his youth, he spent several years in slavery, later became famous as a skilled warlord and vice-governor of Jamaica. The central theme of the novel ingenious assault, lightning capture and ruthless looting of the Golden Cup so called Panama, which was the richest city in the West Indies.

The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James

Isabel, the main character of the story, knows the charm of marriage with a worthless person. Her fate the confluence of fatal circumstances. Being a dowry and finding herself in Europe, she refuses to quite worthy applicants for a hand, and having received a fortune, she links life with the rogue Osmond, who married her only to provide a bastard daughter, Pansy, born of a courtesan, a decent existence. Illusions are crumbling, there is no hope for happiness, but Isabelle, with stoic courage, endures all the misfortunes that have fallen to her lot.

The Real Thing and Other Tales

Henry James

The main character, an aspiring artist, hires a faded noble couple, Monarchs, as models after they have lost most of their money and need to find some kind of work. They are real in the sense that they are beautifully of the aristocratic type, but they turn out to be inappropriate for the artists work. The artist must finally get rid of the monarchs, especially after his friend and colleague, artist Jack Hawley, criticized the work in which monarchs are represented.

The Reverberator

Henry James

The Reverberator is a short novel from Henry James. Comedy traces the complications. which leads when unpleasant, but true stories about Paris family fall into the American scandal sheet of the name of the novel. George Flack is a Paris correspondent for the American sheet scandal called reverberator.

The Sacred Fount

Henry James

The book is about history, but not the one that is written in dry letters in the textbook, but the one into which the time machine takes you and lets you live the days, months in the body of another person, a contemporary of the time you are reading about. It is about religion, but not about what they preach in churches, without the right to question, but about its origins, causes, development, problems, transformation over time, our perception of it in the modern world, as well as about coexistence, disagreements and struggle religions with each other. Three archaeologists, three friends American Cullinan, Arab Tabari and Israeli Eliav decided to conquer the world by large-scale excavations.

The Spoils of Poynton

Henry James

Mrs. Gareth has been collecting works of art in her Pointon manor all her life, and now, after her husbands death, she must, according to English customs, hand over the manor to her son Owen. The trouble is that the limp Owen is under the influence of his bride, Mona Brixton, who dreams of taking up Poyntons hands and closing access for Mrs Goret forever. And Mrs. Gareth decides to fight for her treasures.

The Tragic Muse

Henry James

The Tragic Muse is dedicated to the conflict between the artist and society. Painter Nick Dormer suffers because he does not find recognition, actress Miriam Ruth, in the name of success, makes compromises with his conscience, understanding what the rich audience expects of her. However, the greatest success of this work was the image of Gabriel Nash.

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

The book opens with an unnamed narrators description of a party held one Christmas Eve in England at which some friends have gathered to share ghost stories. One of the partygoers, Douglas, says that he knows a particularly sinister ghost story about a governesss time spent taking care of a wealthy Londoners niece and nephew at a country estate haunted by two ghosts.The story is that a governess goes to an English country house to take charge of two orphaned children, Miles and Flora. The governess is told she must manage everything herself and not disturb the childrens uncle, who is their guardian. Soon the governess is alarmed when she sees an unknown man and woman around the estate, and the housekeeper informs her that the couple used to work there, but both died. The governess suspects that the children know more about these ghosts than they will admit to her, and fears for their safety.

The Wings of the Dove

Henry James

The novel is complicated, its true. Long, ornate sentences, philosophical speculations of the characters, complex in their structure and further awareness of the phrase.. but.. this and not only the novel represents the uniqueness and sophistication. Restrained and at the same time shocking, harmonious and scary real. Did you know that among the higher aristocracy there are wolves in sheeps clothing?

Washington Square

Henry James

The main character Katherine is a girl who does not differ in anything special, but is at the same time quite an enviable bride, she has a good dowry. And the bridegroom appears on the horizon, love, everything, but the father is against their relationship, because this Maurice squandered all his fortune, and aunt Catherine, on the contrary, for real happiness. The whole book revolves around the relationship between Catherine and Maurice, Maurice and the girls father, Catherine and the aunt. The book interestingly spelled out the characters, but still truly breathes the feeling of the time in question. This is the beauty of this work.

What Maisie Knew

Henry James

The young heroine matures through her perception of family problems. The aristocratic family fell apart: the parents decided to live separately, but Macy does not agree with this. The girl is looking for a way to reunite her mom and dad...

W kleszczach lęku

Henry James

Zło jest żywiołem, któremu łatwo ulec  Historia rozpoczyna się w Wigilię Bożego Narodzenia, gdy grupa przyjaciół zgromadzonych w starym dworze, przy kominku snuje opowieści o duchach. Jeden z obecnych opowiada trzymającą w napięciu historię matki i jej dziecka nawiedzanych przez tajemnicze widmo... Losy tych dwojga najbardziej poruszają Douglasa, przypominają mu o niesamowitych zdarzeniach, które spisała jego dawna przyjaciółka, guwernantka Pod piórem Henryego Jamesa, niekwestionowanego mistrza niuansów, ta zgrabna, krótka historia zmienia się w prozatorskie arcydzieło, pełne wieloznaczności i pytań, na które nie ma jasnych odpowiedzi. W kleszczach lęku przeniesiono w 1999 r. na wielki ekran, a w rolę wuja sierot wcielił się Colin Firth.  James to jedyny spośród amerykańskich pisarzy, którego w kulturze literackiej bez wahania nazywa się Mistrzem. "The New York Times" Najbardziej przenikliwa opowieść o istocie zła jaka kiedykolwiek powstała... "The Independent" Henry James (18431916) wybitny amerykański pisarz, krytyk i teoretyk literatury, reprezentant realizmu psychologicznego. W swoich znakomitych powieściach zgłębiał mentalność Amerykanów, zderzając ją z kulturą europejską.

Z duchami przy wigilijnym stole

Walter Scott, Henry James

Mistrzowska kolekcja niezwykłych opowieści, która przeraża i bawi, zapraszając czytelnika do podróży po świecie upiornych zjaw, poszukiwaczy przygód i nawiedzonych posiadłości. Klasyczne opowieści o duchach, nie dających się wyjaśnić fenomenach, klątwach rodowych i niezwykłych wydarzeniach w wigilię Bożego Narodzenia autorstwa wielu wybitnych pisarzy, jak choćby Walter Scott i Henry James. Zbiór opowieści przenosi czytelnika w czasy, kiedy w starych dworach skrzypiały schody, a świecę mógł zdmuchnąć podmuch wiatru lub przechodzący duch. Napisane w różnych okresach historie prezentują pełen arsenał gotyckich motywów i nadprzyrodzonych zjawisk. Duch jest najstarszym i najtrwalszym motywem w literaturze zmieniają się epoki, przemijają mody, jednak postać ducha niezmiennie pozostaje trwałym elementem naszej kultury popularnej od czasów szekspirowskich po dzisiejsze kinowe i serialowe fascynacje.