Apart from the writings of William Shakespeare, William Blake, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, George Orwell, D.
Henry James wrote that Venice was like a woman of whom you are tenderly fond.
The play, an adaptation of Henry James's novel "Washington Square, " is set just blocks from her new home.
It is an adaptation of the Henry James novel Washington Square, which became an Oscar-winning film in 1949.
Henry James made easy no small task, given the complications of the plot.
Also worth reading is Henry James's 1893 essay, "London, " because he, too, was both thrilled and appalled by the "dreadful, delightful" city.
Many have shaken their heads at the sheer vulgarity of it all, among them Mark Twain, Helen Keller, Henry James, his brother William, and Sigmund Freud.
By 1886 he had joined the ranks of Americans in London among whom were also Henry James, Stephen Crane, James McNeill Whistler, Mark Twain and, later on, T.
In "The Aspern Papers, " Mr. Argento skillfully opens up the Henry James novella, adding a backstory and more characters, so that past and present coexist and collide.
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Henry James's masterpiece, "The Turn of the Screw, " is so unsettling for what it withholds, its ghosts most terrifying when glimpsed (or are they?) from a distance.
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For over 8 years, we have dreamed of offering a Henry James-Edith Wharton association, one of the most interesting and sought-after associations in English and American literature.
Endlessly curious, he mused idly on why the sun appears larger at the horizon, and read Henry James in Italian since that was the edition to hand.
In this year's winner of the Man Booker prize, a shy Henry James-loving leech moves into the house of a Tory politician and immerses himself in gay sex.
Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and the abolitionists William and Henry James.
After much research, we found a letter dated May 12, 1912 from Henry James to Edith Wharton , thanking her for a package containing two books- one was Chateaubriand .
Guests, including Henry James and Edith Wharton, were pampered.
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She turned to intimate friends, such as Walter Berry, Henry James and Bernard Berenson, and, in her late 40s, fell into an all-consuming love affair with the dodgy and bisexual Morton Fullerton.
Kael and Didion had parallel flight paths: both were Northern California kids who had close-read Henry James at Berkeley, gone East to get their bearings, and returned to California to forge their styles.
All this meant that in the America of Edith Wharton and Henry James, travelling by train, and arriving and leaving great cities and great stations by train, was an ennobling experience and an exhilarating adventure.
In this novel, short-listed for the Man Booker prize, the author insinuates himself under the skin of Henry James, covering not only the known episodes in the literary lion's life, but also imagining the darker corners.
Ms Nafisi's earlier memoir did an excellent job of exploring the absurdities of life under the ayatollahs, using the vehicle of a literary discussion group that dissected the works of writers such as Vladimir Nabokov and Henry James.
And in his teachings and writings, Dr. Barnes drew on his scientific background (as well as the writings of Henry James, John Dewey and George Santayana) to bring a new rigor to the criticism of art, replacing approaches he found intellectually flabby or simply beside the point.
Although most of the works are of submasterpiece quality, the show contains some real treats, among them the everyday beauty of Silvestro Lega's "The Villino Batelli at Piagentina" (1863), the straightforward landscape drawings of Philadelphia illustrator Joseph Pennel (who's a revelation for me), and Sargent's magnificently understated 1913 portrait of Henry James.
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"What Maisie Knew, " described as a "contemporary imagining" of a Henry James story, is told from the point of view of Maisie, who is buffeted by her self-involved parents' divorce, especially when her father, played by Steve Coogan, marries her baby sitter (Joanna Vanderham) and her mother takes up with a handsome young bartender (Alexander Skarsgard).
The arrest of Brunswick city commissioner James Henry Brooks added another wrinkle to a case that was already tough to fathom.
King took advantage of a misplaced Darren Purse pass to open the scoring before James Henry set up Andros Townsend to equalise.
But Millwall created more, with James Henry's shot dipping over, Luke Steele saving after a melee and Hameur Bouazza's free-kick flashing wide.
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