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1) The golden bowl

Author

James, Henry

Series

Penguin English library
Tor Classics
Everyman's library volume 117

Language

English

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A thing to marvel at, a thing to be grateful for.'A rich American art-collector and his daughter Maggie buy in for themselves and to their greater glory a beautiful young wife and noble husband. They do not know that Charlotte and Prince Amerigo were formerly lovers, nor that on the eve of the Prince's marriage they had discovered, in a Bloomsbury antique shop, a golden bowl with a secret flaw. The superstitious Amerigo, fearing for his gilded future,...

2) The ambassadors

Author

James, Henry

Series

Oxford world's classics
Harper's modern classics
Barnes and Noble classics
Tantor unabridged classics
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Lexile measure

1150L

Language

English

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook

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The Ambassadors, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: • New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars • Biographies of the authors • Chronologies of contemporary...

3) The wings of the dove

Author

James, Henry

Series

Oxford world's classics
Charles E. Merrill standard editions
Everyman's library volume 230
Modern Library classics

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IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 39

Lexile measure

1190L

Language

English

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Confronting a Bronzino portrait in an English country house, a young American heiress comes face to face with her own predicament. For Milly Theale, who seems to have the world before her and at her feet, is fatally ill. Eager for life, eager for love, she embarks on her European adventure, warming to the admiration of her new friends Kate Croy and Merton Densher. But Merton and Kate are secretly engaged, and come to see in this angel with a thumping...

4) The turn of the screw; The Aspern papers

Author

James, Henry

Series

Everyman's library. Fiction volume no. 912

Pub. Date

1935.

Language

English

5) The portrait of a lady

Author

James, Henry

Series

Oxford world's classics volume 12
Barnes and Noble classics
Everyman's library
Modern Library volume 107
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IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 44

Lexile measure

1020L

Language

English

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Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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Alluring, high-spirited American heiress Isabel - "I always want to know the things one shouldn't do ... so as to choose"--Is in Europe to seek her own destiny. But after refusing marriage proposals from both Lord Warburton, a "prince" of the aristocracy, and Caspar Goodwood, a "prince" of American industry, Isabel becomes utterly captivated by the languid charms of Gilbert Osmond, whom she sees as the "prince" she has been looking for. To him, she...