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2. The Bostonians - Wikipedia

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   The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centres on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant, a pretty, young protégée of Olive's in the feminist ...

3. Henry James - Wikipedia

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   Although the book shows some signs of immaturity—this was James's first serious attempt at a full-length novel—it has attracted favourable comment due to the vivid realisation of the three major characters: Roderick Hudson, superbly gifted but unstable and unreliable; Rowland Mallet, Roderick's limited but much more mature friend and patron ...

4. Boston marriage - Wikipedia

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   The term Boston marriage became associated with Henry James's The Bostonians (1886), a novel involving a long-term co-habiting relationship between two unmarried women, "new women", although James himself never used the term. James' sister Alice lived in such a relationship with Katherine Loring and was among his sources for the novel. [3]

5. File:Upton Sinclair - The Book of Life.pdf - Wikipedia

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   Original file (685 × 1,043 pixels, file size: 16.95 MB, MIME type: application/pdf, 462 pages) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.

6. The Bostonians (film) - Wikipedia

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   The Bostonians is a 1984 historical romance drama film directed by James Ivory. The screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is based on the 1886 American novel The Bostonians by Henry James. The film stars Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve, Madeleine Potter, and Jessica Tandy. The Bostonians was released in the United States on 2 August 1984. [3]

7. Book of Life - Wikipedia

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   Depiction of the book of life. In Judaism, Christianity and Islam ( Angels) the Book of Life (Biblical Hebrew: ספר החיים, transliterated Sefer HaḤayyim; Ancient Greek: βιβλίον τῆς ζωῆς, romanized: Biblíon tēs Zōēs Arabic: سفر الحياة, romanized: Sifr al-Ḥayā) is an alleged book in which God records, or will record, the names of every person who is ...

8. Daisy Miller - Wikipedia

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   In a letter, James said that Daisy is the victim of a "social rumpus" that goes on either over her head or beneath her notice. [3] The names of the characters are also symbolic. Daisy is a flower in full bloom, without inhibitions and in the springtime of her life. Daisy contrasts sharply with Winterbourne.

9. List of Penguin Classics - Wikipedia

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   A Life in Letters by Anton Chekhov; A Life in Letters by Henry James; A Life in Letters by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; A Life in Letters by William Wordsworth; Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca; Life of Apollonius by Philostratus; Life of Black Hawk, or Mà-ka-tai-me-she-kià-kiàk by Black Hawk; The Life of Charlotte Brontë by ...