The narrator speculates upon the relationships between house guests at a weekend party. John Lyon's introduction discusses how the story grew away from James, becoming a curiously intimate revelation of his interests and methods. Notes and textual revisions are also included.

La source sacrée

Henry James débute l'écriture d'Un portrait de femme en 1880, alors qu'il réside à Florence. Son héroïne, Isabel Archer, est une jeune Américaine récemment devenue orpheline qui, à l'invitation de sa tante, part découvrir l'Europe. Au cours d'un voyage qui la mène de l'Angleterre à l'Italie, Isabel, idéaliste et innocente, fait l'apprentissage, parfois douloureux, de la vie, du mariage et de la compassion. Mais jamais elle ne se départit d'une irrépressible soif de liberté.À travers une galerie de personnages inoubliables, Henry James nous livre une formidable peinture de l'aristocratie du XIXe siècle, et décrit avec brio la confrontation entre l'Amérique et la vieille Europe. Avant-gardiste et lumineux, ce Portrait de femme est l'un de ses plus grands chefs-d'ouvre.Édition présentée et annotée par Annick Duperray. Traduction de Philippe Neel.

Un portrait de femme

« Nul doute que j'avais une prescience mystique du goût que je prendrais un jour pour la ténébreuse Babylone moderne » écrit Henry James en se souvenant de son premier séjour à Londres, datant de 1869. Si l'Italie est pour lui « une belle nymphe débraillée », son deuxième amour le porte vers cette « brave matrone mariée » qu'est l'Angleterre, et dont il épouse le mode de vie. L'Angleterre est pour James la terre d'une sorte de poésie des moeurs, de personnages élégants et délicats avec leur vive sensibilité vibrant sous une réserve courtoise, et aussi leur snobisme archaïque et menacé. Et puis c'est bien sûr le pays de sa langue et de sa carrière littéraire, ses oeuvres y étant publiées, tout en l'étant simultanément aux États-Unis. Son influence sera considérable sur toute une jeune génération anglaise du début du XXe siècle, dont d'une certaine manière Virginia Woolf.

Ce volume comprend :
Un pèlerin passionné, Un épisode international, Le Siège de Londres, Lady Barberina, Une vie à Londres, Les Mariages.

Le siège de Londres ; et cinq autres nouvelles

L'autel des morts - Occasion

The figure in the carpet and other stories

After her parents' divorce, young Maisie's divides her time between living with her mother and father. Beale and Ida are frivolous and irresponsible parents, treating Maisie as a go-between and paying little attention to her other than to use her against one another. With growing awareness of the situation, Maisie matures into a precocious and disillusioned young woman whose views of the world are impacted by her parents' neglect and the dysfunctional relationships she has witnessed throughout her life. Originally published serially in the Chap-Book and later in the New Review before being published as a single volume, What Maisie Knew is author Henry James's exploration of childhood and family dysfunction that continues to be relevant today. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.

What Maisie Knew

Originally published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1878 and in book form in 1879, Daisy Miller brought Henry James his first widespread commercial and critical success. The young Daisy Miller, an American on holiday with her mother on the shores of Switzerland’s Lac Leman, is one of James’s most vivid and tragic characters. Daisy’s friendship with an American gentleman, Mr. Winterbourne, and her subsequent infatuation with a passionate but impoverished Italian bring to life the great Jamesian themes of Americans abroad, innocence versus experience, and the grip of fate. As Elizabeth Hardwick writes in her Introduction, Daisy Miller “lives on, a figure out of literature who has entered history as a name, a vision.”

Daisy Miller

He had been told the ladies were at church, but this was corrected by what he saw from the top of the steps-they descended from a great height in two arms, with a circular sweep of the most charming effect-at the threshold of the door which, from the long bright gallery, overlooked the immense lawn. Three gentlemen, on the grass, at a distance, sat under the great trees, while the fourth figure showed a crimson dress that told as a "bit of colour" amid the fresh rich green. The servant had so far accompanied Paul Overt as to introduce him to this view, after asking him if he wished first to go to his room. The young man declined that privilege, conscious of no disrepair from so short and easy a journey and always liking to take at once a general perceptive possession of a new scene. He stood there a little with his eyes on the group and on the admirable picture, the wide grounds of an old country-house near London-that only made it better-on a splendid Sunday in June. "But that lady, who's she?" he said to the servant before the man left him. "I think she's Mrs. St. George, sir."

La Leçon Du Maître et Autres Nouvelles

Eugenia is the morganatic wife of a German prince who is repudiated by her husband in favour of a state marriage. With her artist brother Felix she goes to Boston to live with relatives whom she has never seen before, with hopes of making a wealthy marriage.

La source sacrée

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