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THE AMBASSADORS - Henry James
“Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven’t had that what have you had? Do what you like so long as you don’t make my mistake. For it was a mistake. Live!”
Lambert Strether is sent to Paris by the formidable Mrs. Newsome of Woollett, Mass., to reclaim her son Chad for American marriage, American business and the American way of life – before it is too late and he is tangled in the toils of wicked Europe for life. But rather than finding his task a straightforward one, the charmed ambassador loves Paris, delights to find Chad refined into a winning young man of the world, and rejoices in the style of life led by Chad and his amiable friends. A second ambassador has to be despatched: the redoubtable Sarah Pocock.
“The Ambassadors” is a classic masterpiece in the Jamesian confrontation of the New World and the Old. Taut throughout with the energy of complex understanding, written in the prose of a master, it stands among the supreme accomplishments of prose in the years that ended for ever with 1914.
Henry James’s great enquiry into the pathos of opportunity among Americans in Paris.
Henry James was born in New York in 1843, and spent much of his childhood and early adult life in Europe before settling in England in 1876. His first novel, “Roderick Hudson”, was published in that year and followed in steady succession by the works that made him famous, among them “The Portrait of a Lady” (1881), “The Turn of the Screw” (1898), “The Wings of the Dove” (1902) and “The Golden Bowl” (1904). He became a British citizen in 1915 and died the following year.
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THE TURN AF THE SCREW and other stories - Henry James
“It’s beyond everything. Nothing at all that I know touches it.” “For sheer terror?” I remember asking. He seemed to say it wasn’t so simple as that; to be really at a loss how to qualify it. He passed his hand over his eyes, made a little wincing grimace.”For dreadful-dreadfulness!” Seven classic tales from the hand of the master.
“Only make the reader’s general vision of evil intense enough, I said to myself – and that already is a charming job – and his own experience, his own imagination, his own sympathy (with the children) and horror (of their false friends) will supply him quite sufficiently with all the particulars. Make him ‘think’ the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.” So wrote Henry James in his preface to “The Turn of the Screw”. The classic tale of an impressionable young governess put in charge of two apparently angelic children soon turns into one of the most riveting and controversial ghost stories ever written. It is given here with six other major tales by James, which show him as a supreme master of his art.
CONTENTS:
1. The Real Thing
2. The Figure in the Carpet
3. The Turm of the Screw
4. The Tree of Knowledge
5. Maud-Evelyn
6. The Beast in the Jungle
7. The Jolly Corner
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