James Henry — Knigausa Bookstore: Russian Books

The Turn of the Screw

Aleksandr Malyshev — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 07:38:24 +0000

A young governess is employed to look after two enchantingly beautiful orphans.Striving to protect the children, she becomes obsessed with the idea that they are in danger, and her good intentions cause more harm than good.Uneasy and sinister, this novella shows a woman haunted by an eerie and evil presence that emerges from the terrors of real life.

Washington Square

Aleksandr Malyshev — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 07:31:56 +0000

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.

Portrait of a Lady

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 21:21:09 +0000

In The Portrait of a Lady. (1881), spirited young Isabel Archer travels from her home in Albany, New York, eager to discover what life has to offer in Europe. Determined to shape her own destiny, she rejects two eligible suitors — one American and one English — in her pursuit of freedom.Isabel’s independence at first seems assured by a surprise legacy from her uncle but, ironically, her wealth only serves to attract the scheming Madame Merle and the cruelly possessive Gilbert Osmond. The revelations that follow Isabel’s marriage to Osmond are devastating and she is forced to confront the conflict between society’s demand for propriety and her own fierce sense of independence.

The Ambassadors

Sat, 01 Jun 2024 21:21:09 +0000

When the mild-mannered Lambert Strether travels from America to Paris on a mission to ‘save’ Chad, the son of his formidable fiancee, he soon discovers that life in Europe is not at all what he had expected. Faced by the temptations of Parisian culture and the possibility of emotional liberation, Lambert is forced to reconsider his values.Full of his customary wit and canny observations, Henry James proclaimed The Ambassadors to be his greatest novel.