Catherine Sloper ist nicht sehr hübsch und nicht sehr schlau, aber jung, reich und somit eine der besten Partien New Yorks. Und schon hat ein Verehrer ihr Herz erobert: Morris Townsend. Der alte Sloper glaubt einen Erbschleicher am Werk...

'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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

"Washington Square" von Henry James ist ein Roman, der im New York des 19. Jahrhunderts spielt und die Geschichte von Catherine Sloper erzählt, einer schüchternen und unscheinbaren jungen Frau. Sie lebt mit ihrem wohlhabenden, aber...

'She knew of no wrong that he had done; he was not violent, he was not cruel; she simply believed that he hated her'When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected...

Isabel Archer ist Amerikanerin und eine interessante Frau, die bei ihrem Eintreffen in England für gehörigen Wirbel sorgt. Dort verändert sie das Leben aller, auf die sie trifft - aber wird England auch sie verändern? von James, Henry

Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and is easily overwhelmed by the attentions of a handsome but penniless suitor. Her clever father is implacably opposed to the match, and the scene for a classic confrontation is set. This new...