...erican by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The American by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ... CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The American by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...y beau- tiful subject,” said the young lady. “The Madonna, yes; I am not a Catholic, but I want to buy it. Combien? Write it here.” And he took a penc... ...ountains, and the bluest lakes, and the finest pictures and the handsomest churches,. and the most celebrated men, and the most beautiful women.” “Set... ...ot particularly blue. But there is everything else: plenty of pictures and churches, no end of celebrated men, and several beautiful women.” “But I ca... ...h side, is of fabulous antiquity; her mother is the daughter of an English Catholic earl. Her father is dead, and since her widowhood she has lived wi... ... about them like an old lady. This was rather bewildering. Which of my two critics was I to believe? I didn’t worry about it and very soon made up my ...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentle man was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been removed, to th...

...sadors by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Ambassadors by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...ASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Ambassadors by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...esuit in petticoats, a repre- sentative of the recruiting interests of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church, for Waymarsh-that was to say the enem... ...petticoats, a repre- sentative of the recruiting interests of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church, for Waymarsh-that was to say the enemy, the mo... ...he had got somewhere and somehow was brought by the movement nearer to his critics There was a fascination for that critic in its not being, this ripe... ...s sure, the half-dozen other ‘men who were distinguished, the artists, the critics and oh the great dramatist—him it was easy to spot; but wanted—no, ... ...eventh I I t wasn’t the first time Strether had sat alone in the great dim church—still less was it the first of his giving himself up, so far as cond...

...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second cha...

...nry James A PENN S TAT E ELE C T R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...ENN S TAT E ELE C T R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...eplorably convivial, he was known to have gambled freely. A few very harsh critics went so far as to say that he had not even brought up his daughters... ...her might know them well. One of the broth- 83 Henry James ers was in the Church, settled in the family living, that of Lockleigh, which was a heavy,... ...he played in a much smaller degree than would have seemed probable to many critics. It came from a certain fear. 96 The Portrait of a Lady CHAPTER X ... ...e Florentine streets, resting a while in the thicker dusk of some historic church or the vaulted chambers of some dispeopled convent. She went to the ... ...e had evoked and seemed greatly pleased with it. And then he went on: “The Catholics are very wise after all. The con- vent is a great institution; we...

Excerpt: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James.