Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access...

Europa im ausgehenden neunzehnten Jahrhundert: In Wien verwendet Sigmund Freud zum ersten Mal den Begriff »Psychoanalyse«, und in London fährt unter dem Asphalt, auf dem sich die Kutschen voranschleppen, die weltweit erste U-Bahn. Lady...

Turn of the Screw von James, Henry

The greatest expression of his talent for witty, observant explorations of what it means to 'live well', Henry James's The Ambassadors is edited with an introduction and notes by Adrian Poole in Penguin Classics. Concerned that her son...

Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access...

"Porträt einer jungen Dame" ist ein faszinierender Roman von Gottfried Röckelein, der das Leben einer jungen Frau in der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts erzählt. Die Protagonistin, eine gebildete und unabhängige junge Dame, navigiert durch...

Washington Square. Roman von James, Henry

'There was nothing weak about Miss Olive, she was a fighting woman, and she would fight him to the death' Basil Ransom, an attractive young Mississippi lawyer, is on a visit to his cousin Olive, a wealthy feminist, in Boston when he...

To read a story by Henry James is to enter a fully realized world unlike any other—a rich, perfectly crafted domain of vivid language and splendid, complex characters. Devious children, sparring lovers, capricious American girls, obtuse...

The American von James, Henry

Henry James left America for England in 1876 and remained in his adopted country for the next three decades. Arriving in Liverpool, he made his way first to London, the "dreadful, delightful city” that he would come to both love and...

Washington Square is one of Henry James's most appealing and popular novels, with the most straightforward plot and style of any of his works. Set in the genteel New York of James's early childhood, it is a tale of cruelty laced with...