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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
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
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: Classics | 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
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
Category: Classics
Portrait of a LadyHenry JamesThe Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-81 and then as a book in 1881. It is one of James's most popular long novels and is regarded by critics as one of his finest.Isabel Archer, ...Show more
Portrait of a Lady (Penguin English Library) by Henry James
Category: Classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
This is the "Penguin English Library Edition" of "The Portrait of a Lady" by Henry James. 'She knew of no wrong that he had done; he was not violent, he was not cruel; she simply believed that he hated her'. When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Tou ...Show more
Selected Letters of Henry James by Henry James
Category: History
Legend has tended to preserve Henry James as "The Master" that Joseph Conrad called him, a rather long-winded Olympian given to great utterances on the art of fiction and the writing of profound psychological studies. The real-life figure revealed in these letters is more terse, and even astringent, a p ...Show more
Selected Short Stories by Henry James
Category: Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions
The literary career of Henry James (1843-1916) ranks among the longest and most productive in American letters. The expatriate author, who ultimately adopted British citizenship, often portrayed the conflicts of American and European manners, morals, and world views. This original selection of outstandi ...Show more
Selected Tales by Henry James
Category: Classics
Henry James, (1843-1916) was born in New York and settled in Europe in 1875. This is a selection of short stories from across James's writing career and includes the more popular ones such as "Daisy Miller" and "The Figure in the Carpet", along with less widely-known tales.
The 60s : The Story of a Decade by The New Yorker Magazine Staff; Renata Adler (Contribution by); Hannah Arendt (Contribution by); James Baldwin (Contribution by); Truman Capote (Contribution by); Henry Finder (Editor); David Remnick (Introduction by)
Category: History | Series: New Yorker: the Story of a Decade Ser.
The third installment of a fascinating decade-by-decade series, this anthology collects historic New Yorker pieces from the most tumultuous years of the twentieth century--including work by James Baldwin, Pauline Kael, Sylvia Plath, Roger Angell, Muriel Spark, and John Updike--alongside new assessments ...Show more
The Ambassadors by Henry James
Category: Classics | Series: Transatlantic Classics
Lambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular achievements, is dispatched to Paris from the manufacturing empire of Woollett, Massachusetts. The mission conferred on him by his august patron, Mrs Newsome, is to discover what, or who, is keeping her son Chad in the notorious city of plea ...Show more