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The turn of the screw / by James, Henry,1843-1916.; Bromwich, David,1951-;
The classic ghost story about a high-strung governess and the two young children who may--or may not--be plotting with the diabolical Peter Quint.
Subjects: Governesses; Children;
© 2011., Penguin Books,
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The portrait of a lady / by James, Henry,1843-1916.; Horne, Philip.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The classic story about Isabel Archer, who who is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt, but has plans of her own.
Subjects: Archer, Isabel (Fictitious character); Americans;
© 2011., Penguin,
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Selected tales / by James, Henry,1843-1916.; Lyon, John,1956-;
Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiv-xxvii).Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Further reading -- A Henry James chronolgoy -- A note on the texts -- Four meetings -- Daisy Miller -- The pension Beaurepas -- The lesson of the master -- The pupil -- The real thing -- Greville Fane -- The middle years -- The figure in the carpet -- In the cage -- The real right thing -- Broken wings -- The abasement of the Northmores -- The beast in the jungle -- The birthplace -- Fordham Castle -- Julia Bride -- The jolly corner -- Notes.
Subjects: Americans;
© 2001., Penguin Books,
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The Bostonians : a novel / by James, Henry,1843-1916.; Lansdown, Richard,1961-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. xxxi-xxxvi)."Basil Ransom, an attractive young Mississippi lawyer, is on a visit to his cousin Olive, a wealthy feminist, in Boston when he accompanies her to a meeting on the subject of women's emancipation. One of the speakers is Verena Tarrant, and although he disapproves of all she claims to stand for, Basil is immediately captivated by her and sets about 'reforming' her with his traditional views. But Olive has already made Verena her protégée, and soon a battle is under way for exclusive possession of her heart and mind."--P. [4] of cover.
Subjects: Love stories.; Psychological fiction.; Satire.; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Young women; Feminists; Cousins;
© 2000., Penguin Books,
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Daisy Miller [videorecording] / by Bogdanovich, Peter,1939-drtpro; Raphael, Frederic,1931-adpaus; Shepherd, Cybill,1950-act; Brown, Barry,1951-1978.act; Natwick, Mildred,1905-1994.act; Brennan, Eileen.act; Del Prete, Duilio.act; Leachman, Cloris.act; Spagnoli, Alberto.; Fields, Verna.; James, Henry,1843-1916.Daisy Miller.aut; Bach, Johann Sebastian,1748-1778.cmp; Paramount Pictures Corporation.pro; Directors Company.pro; Paramount Home Video (Firm)dst;
DVD, NTSC, Region 1; Dolby Digital mono.Cybill Shepherd, Barry Brown, Mildred Natwick, Eileen Brennan, Duilio Del Prete, Cloris Leachman.Photography, Alberto Spagnoli; editor, Verna Fields; music, Johann Sebastian Bach ... [et al.]."[Daisy Miller is] an expatriate American living abroad in Europe with her daffy mother and bratty kid brother. Daisy is very liberated and very much ahead of her time as her behavior scandalizes the Victorian high society of 1878."--Container.MPAA rating: G; Canadian Home Video rating: PG..
Subjects: Feature films.; Historical films.; Fiction films.; Film adaptations.; Romance films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; James, Henry, 1843-1916; Americans; Young women;
© c2003., Paramount Home Video,
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The Norton anthology of American literature / by Levine, Robert S.(Robert Steven),1953-editor.; Gustafson, Sandra M.,editor.; Siraganian, Lisa,editor.; Hungerford, Amy,editor.; Avilez, GerShun,1980-editor.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.v. 1. Beginnings to 1865. Preface -- Beginnings to 1820. Introduction -- Timeline -- Native American oral literature. Stories of the begging of the world ; Trickster tales ; Oratory ; Poetry -- Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) -- Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (c. 1490-1558) -- John Smith (1580-1631) -- William Bradford (1590-1657) -- John Winthrop (1588-1649) -- Roger Williams (c. 1603-1683) -- Anne Bradstreet (c. 1612-1672) -- Mary Rowlandson (c. 1647-1711) -- Edward Taylor (c. 1642-1729) -- Cotton Mather (1663-1728) -- Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) -- Samson Occom (1723-1792) -- Ethnographic and naturalist writings. Sarah Kemble Knight ; Samson Occom ; William Bartram -- J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813) -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) -- The Federalist -- Olaudah Equiano (1745?-1797) -- Judith Sargent Murray (1751-1820) -- Philip Freneau (1752-1832) -- Phillis Wheatley (c. 1753-1784) -- Charles Brockden Brown (1771-1810) -- Native American eloquence : negotiation and resistance. Canassatego ; Pontiac ; Logan ; Cherokee women ; Tecumseh --American literature, 1820-1865. Introduction ; Timeline -- Washington Irving (1783-1859) -- James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) -- William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) -- William Apess (1798-1839) -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) -- Native Americans : removal and resistance. Petalsharo ; Elias Boudinot ; The Cherokee memorials ; Black Hawk ; Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) -- Women's rights and women writing. Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis ; Catharine E. Beecher ; Elizabeth Cady Stanton ; Sojourner Truth ; Caroline Stansbury Kirkland ; Harriet Farley ; Fanny Fern (Sarah Willis Parton) -- Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) -- Slavery, race, and the making of American literature. Thomas Jefferson ; David Walker ; Samuel E. Cornish and John B. Russwurm l William Lloyd Garrison ; Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis ; Angelina E. Grimké ; James M. Whitfield ; Martin B. Delany -- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) -- Harriet Jacobs (c. 1813-1897) -- Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910) -- Songs and poems from the Civil War. Anonymous folk song ; Julia Ward Howe ; Ethelinda Eliot Beers l John Greenleaf Whittier ; George Moses Horton ; Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt ; Frances Ellen Watkins Harper --v. 2. 1865 to the present. Preface -- American literature, 1865-1914. Introduction ; Timeline -- Walt Whitman (1819-1892) -- Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) -- Reconstruction. Jourdon Anderson ; Frances E. W. Harper ; Frederick Douglass ; Albion W. Tourgée ; Robert Brown Elliott -- Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) -- Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) (1835-1910) -- Critical controversy : race and the ending of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Julius Lester ; David L. Smith ; Toni Morrison ; Alan Gribben ; Michiko Kakutani -- William Dean Howells (1837-1920) -- Ambrose Bierce (1842-c. 1914) -- Realism and naturalism. William Dean Howells ; Henry James ; Frank Norris ; Jack London ; Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- Henry James (1843-1916) -- Emma Lazarus (1849-1887) -- Sarah Orne Jewett (1849-1909) -- Kate Chopin (1850-1904) -- Mary E. Wilkins Freeman (1852-1930) -- Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) -- Charles W. Chesnutt (1858-1932) -- Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859-1930) -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) -- Edith Wharton (1862-1937) -- Sui Sin Far (Edith Maud Eaton) (1865-1914) -- W. E. B. Du Bois (1868-1963) -- Theodore Dreiser (1871-1945) -- Stephen Crane (1871-1900) -- Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906) -- Jack London (1876-1916) -- Zitkala-S̈a, (Gertrude Simmons Bonnin) (1876-1938) --American literature, 1914-1945. Introduction ; Timeline -- Willa Cather (1873-1947) -- Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) -- Robert Frost (1874-1963) -- Susan Glaspell (1876-1948) -- Sherwood Anderson (1876-1941) -- Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) -- Wallace Stevens (1879-1955) -- William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) -- Ezra Pound (1885-1972) -- Modernist manifestos. Mina Loy ; Ezra Pound ; T. S. Eliot ; Willa Cather ; Gertrude Stein -- H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961) -- Marianne Moore (1887-1972) -- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) -- Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) -- Claude McKay (1889-1948) -- Debating black art. Langston Hughes ; George S. Schuyler ; Zora Neale Hurston ; W. E. B. Du Bois -- Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) -- Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) -- E. E. Cummings (1894-1963) -- Jean Toomer (1894-1967) -- F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) -- William Faulkner (1897-1962) -- Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) -- Langston Hughes (1902-1967) -- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) -- Countee Cullen (1903-1946) -- Richard Wright (1908-1960) -- Ann Petry (1908-1997) -- Philip Roth (1933-2018) -- Amiri Baraka (1934-2014) -- Audre Lorde (1934-1992) -- Lucille Clifton (1936-2010) -- Raymond Carver (1938-1988) -- Maxine Hong Kingston (b. 1940) -- Billy Collins (b. 1941) -- Gloria Anzaldúa (1942-2004) -- Louise Glũck (b. 1943) -- Alice Walker (b. 1944) -- Yusef Komunyakaa (b. 1947) -- Leslie Marmon Silko (b. 1948) -- Art Spiegelman (b. 1948) -- Juan Felipe Herrera (b. 1948) -- Joy Harjo (b. 1951) -- Rita Dove (b. 1952) -- Sandra Cisneros (b. 1954) -- Louise Erdrich (b. 1954) -- Li-Young Lee (b. 1957) -- George Saunders (b. 1958) -- Alison Bechdel (b. 1960) -- Claudia Rankine (b. 1963) -- Sherman Alexie (b. 1966) -- Natasha Trethewey (b. 1966) -- Jhumpa Lahiri (b. 1967) -- Viet Thanh Nguyen (b. 1971) -- Junot Díaz (b. 1968).The Shorter Tenth Edition introduces diverse, compelling, relevant texts--from Civil War songs to The Turn of the Screw to The Great Gatsby to poems by Claudia Rankine to a science fiction cluster featuring Octavia Butler and N. K. Jemisin. And continuing its course of innovative and market-responsive changes, the anthology now offers resources to help instructors meet today's teaching challenges. Chief among these resources is InQuizitive, Norton's awarding-winning learning tool, which includes interactive questions on the period introductions and often-taught works in the anthology. In addition, the Shorter Tenth Edition maintains the anthology's exceptional editorial apparatus and generous and diverse slate of texts overall. Available in print and as an annotatable ebook, the Shorter Tenth Edition is ideal for online, hybrid, or in-person teaching. -- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: American literature.;
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