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 Henry’ego Jamesa, ni...

  Dziewięć opowiadań. Różnorodne portrety ludzi i miasta: od cierpko humorystycznego Epizodu międzynarodowego, opisującego podróż dwóch młodych Anglików za ocean, po Niezły narożnik, którego bohater powraca do Nowego Jorku po trzydziestu trzech latach nieobecności, by spotkać swojego sobowtóra; od Johna Lennoxa w Historii pewnego arcydzieła, poznającego dzięki obrazowi prawdę o swojej narzeczonej, po odkrywającą swoją kobiecą tożsamość Catherine Sloper, bohaterkę Placu Waszyn...

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 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 action revolves around three characters: a young and beautiful maiden who travels around America with fiery speeches about the importance of women; her mentor, a lonely and cold lady who despises the whole male race. Different ideals are presented by the rivalry of Olive Chancellor and her cousin Basel Ransom for influencing the young girl Vera Tarrant, who has a strong oratorical gift. The social plan of this novel is concluded in the struggle of the conservative views...

In this story, a mother allows her only child, a seven-year-old boy, to die of diphtheria only so that he will never be subjected to the corrupting influence of the books written by his father, which she deeply condemns. Anyone who imagines motherly love and at least once saw the torment of a child restlessly darting in his crib, fighting for every breath, would never have invented such a monstrous story. The French call it litt’erature. By this word they denote works creat...

A short story which deals, as many other novels by James, with the changing role of women in Society and the differences that begun to arise between the old stiff Europe and the America at the end of the XIXth century. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne, a compatriot of hers with much more sophistication. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates they meet in Switz...

Wybór prozy Henry’ego Jamesa, mistrza półcieni i subtelności, otwiera hipnotyczny, gotycki Obrót śruby, opowieść o duchach lub studium szaleństwa: badacze Jamesa od niemal stu dwudziestu lat toczą o to spór. Zbiór skonstruowany został wokół tematu, który umownie nazwijmy „sprawczością kobiet”, i Jamesowskiej metody „drobnego ziarna” – współczującej precyzji, z którą autor ukazywał pułapki, jakie zastawia na bohaterki złudnie postrzegana rzeczywistość oraz rosn...

The main character had some rivalry with the main character had some kind of rivalry with George Korvikm. He did more things than the main character, and earned more pence, although there were chances for ingenuity. The main character was crazy about the work of Hugh Vereker, therefore he accepted an invitation to a party where he would meet his favorite author.

It only seems in the book that people can always deceive themselves, and life cannot be regulated on the „scientific” principles that fall on Gordon’s shoulders as the main character. „Crazy” scientist Gordon Wright calls Longville in Baden-Baden to judge whether he should marry Angela. After a couple of years, Longville meets Angela again at a French beach resort and realizes that he loves her.

The novel is complicated, it’s 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 sheep’s clothing?

The image of a young American woman is central to the story „Madame de Mauves”, which prefaces the „Portrait of a Woman”. Deceived by the wife of an impoverished French aristocrat who married her for her wealth, she won a moral victory over him, displaying, unexpectedly for him, intellectual subtlety and complete spiritual independence.

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 be quite worthy applicants for a hand, and having received a fortune, connects life with the rogue Osmond.

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...

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 narrator meets the American Clement Searle in a London hotel. Searle had long wanted to move to England, to run away from the routine of his life. However, he is physically ill and depressed because his lawyer cannot support his claim for a share in the out-of-town property currently owned by Richard Searle. The narrator and the main character are trying to solve this problem.

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 novel comes from what is called James’s ‘late period’. The writing is mannered, baroque, complex, and focused intently on the psychological relationships between his characters. There is very little ‘plot’ here in the conventional sense. Much of the interest in the narrative is centred on the limitations of the principal character, from whose point of view the story is told. Lambert Strether is a morally upright, middle-aged American who feels that life has passed him b...

Wybór opowieści o duchach, szaleństwie i rodzinnych tajemnicach pióra jednego z najwybitniejszych pisarzy przełomu XIX i XX wieku. Henry James tworzył na styku dwóch kultur – amerykańskiej i brytyjskiej – i dwóch epok literackich – realizmu i modernizmu. Ma w swoim dorobku nie tylko wnikliwe powieści psychologiczne, lecz również liczne opowiadania grozy, których wybór znalazł się w tej książce. Najsłynniejsze z nich, Nacisk śruby (The Turn of the Screw), jest prawdopodob...

Wszystko zaczęło się wiosną 1970 roku od pomysłu na wakacyjny konkurs dla młodzieży. Konkurs nietypowy, nie chodziło bowiem o tradycyjny turniej z pytaniami i odpowiedziami, lecz o masową akcję, która porwie tłumy. W czasach, gdy polscy kolarze święcili największe triumfy, a wynikami Wyścigu Pokoju żył cały kraj, turystyka rowerowa przeżywała swoje najlepsze chwile i niemal każdy jeździł na rowerze lub przynajmniej o tym marzył. Nic więc dziwnego, że inicjatywa natychm...