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Impressionism by James Henry Rubin
Category: Art and Design | Series: Art & Ideas S.
Celebrations of city streets; tranquil vistas of the countryside and seashore; enchanting images of the leisured classes in domestic interiors or at fashionable Parisian cafes - the work of the Impressionists gives pleasure to art lovers everywhere. But while Impressionism today may appear "natural" and ...Show more
Italian Hours by Henry James
Category: Travel Literature | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Hailing from both sides of the Atlantic, the authors included are as diverse as Edith Wharton, Henry James, Ernest Shackleton and Alfred Russel Wallace. Every title has been reset in a contemporary typeface, and has been printed to a high-quality production specification, to create a series that every l ...Show more
Italian Hours by John (EDT) Henry; Auchard James
Category: Western | Series: Penguin Classics
Italian Hours by Henry James
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Stanfords Travel Classics
Henry James was a renowned observer of European culture, both in his fiction and in his life. In particular, he loved Italy, visiting it 14 times and setting several of his novels in the country. Between 1873 and 1909 he also wrote numerous essays and travelogues that were ultimately collected into one ...Show more
Kissinger the Negotiator : Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level by James K. Sebenius; R. Nicholas Burns; Robert H. Mnookin; Henry Kissinger (Foreword by)
Category: Politics
Foreword by Henry KissingerIn this groundbreaking, definitive guide to the art of negotiation, three Harvard professors offer a comprehensive examination of one of the most successful dealmakers of all time, Henry Kissinger, and some of his most impressive achievements, including the Paris Peace Accords ...Show more
Kissinger the Negotiator: Lessons from Dealmaking at the Highest Level by James K. Sebenius; R. Nicholas Burns; Robert H. Mnookin; Henry Kissinger (Foreword by)
Category: Business
Foreword by Henry KissingerIn this groundbreaking, definitive guide to the art of negotiation, three Harvard professors offer a comprehensive examination of one of the most successful dealmakers of all time, Henry Kissinger, and some of his most impressive achievements, including the Paris Peace Accords ...Show more
Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner by Henry James
Category: Classics | Series: Pushkin Press Classics Ser.
Surrounded by the artists, writers and musicians who made up her court in Boston as they did in Venice, Isabella Stewart Gardner, a passionate art collector, was as revered and sought after as royalty. Henry James was inspired by the rich and powerful Gardner, as well as by the Palazzo Barbaro in Venice ...Show more
Morning Frost: DI Jack Frost Series 3 by James Henry
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: DI Jack Frost
November 1982. It's been one of the worst days of DS Jack Frost's life. He has buried his wife Mary, and must now endure the wake, attended by all of Denton's finest. All, that is, apart from DC Sue Clarke, who has been summoned to the discovery of a human foot in a farmer's field. And things get worse. ...Show more
Mutiny on the Bounty (Classics Illustrated) by Kenneth W. Fitch; Charles Nordhoff; Morris Waldinger (Illustrator); Jon Brooks; Henry C. Kiefer (Illustrator); R. M. Ballantyne; James Norman Hall
Category: Children's Books | Series: Classics Illustrated Ser.
Nordhoff and Hall's account of the 1789 mutiny on board HMS Bounty, perpetrated by Fletcher Christian and the crew, against the tyrannical Captain William Bligh and his officers. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip form, offering an excellent introduction for younger r ...Show more
On Provence by Henry James
Category: Travel | Series: On Ser.
In 1882, a year after the publication of his wildly successful The Portrait of a Lady, which dealt with the difficulties faced by American expatriate Daisy Miller in Europe, Henry James set out a six-week tour of south-eastern France, taking in Tours, Bourges, Nantes, Toulouse and Arles. Although a some ...Show more
Penguin Reader Level 3 The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Category: Learning Material & Coursework (ELT) | Series: Penguin Readers Simplified Text
Classic / British English (Available February 2008) A young woman comes to a big house to teach two young children. It's her first job and she wants to do it well. But she begins to see strange things the ghosts of dead people. Do the ghosts want the children?