HENRY JAMES

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she finds herself irresistibly drawn to G...

Whether viewed as a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease, or simply as 'the most hopelessly evil story we have ever read,' The Turn of the Screw is probably the most famous of ghostly tales and certainly the most eerily equivocal. This new edition includes th...

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Novela corta del escritor norteamericano Henry James. La obra es una traducción única al español.

"The mere slim shade of an intelligent but presumptuous girl...a certain young woman affronting her destiny" is how Henry James describes his first perception of Isabel Archer, who grew into one of his most magnificent heroines. An American heiress newly arrived in Europe, Isabel does not look to a man to furnish her with her destiny; instead sh...

In the The Turn of the Screw a governess is sent to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by a sense of evil, she thinks that something malevolent is stalking the children. The Aspern Papers tells the tale of a literary historian determined to get his hands on the letters of a great poet.