Henry James

  1. what Isabel wants is to be initiated: even if it means being attracted to darkness | The Portrait of a Lady | Jane Campion / Henry James

    what Isabel wants is to be initiated: even if it means being attracted to darkness | The Portrait of a Lady | Jane Campion / Henry James

  2. Nicole Kidman / Isabel Archer: I think I have to begin by getting a general impression of life. I'm not afraid, you know | Jane Campion, Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

    Nicole Kidman / Isabel Archer: I think I have to begin by getting a general impression of life. I'm not afraid, you know | Jane Campion, Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

  3. Caractère floconneux de l'avenir d'Isabelle. Pour James, la vie n'était pas forcément logique et il n'aurait sûrement pas souscrit à l'idée sartrienne que les êtres se confondent avec leurs actes

    Caractère floconneux de l'avenir d'Isabelle. Pour James, la vie n'était pas forcément logique et il n'aurait sûrement pas souscrit à l'idée sartrienne que les êtres se confondent avec leurs actes

  4. The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million - a number of possible windows not to be reckoned, rather; every one of which has been pierced, or is still pierceable

    The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million - a number of possible windows not to be reckoned, rather; every one of which has been pierced, or is still pierceable

  5. Winterbourne was almost grateful for having found the formula that applied to Miss Daisy Miller | Ellie Kendrick reads 'Daisy Miller' by Henry James

    Winterbourne was almost grateful for having found the formula that applied to Miss Daisy Miller | Ellie Kendrick reads 'Daisy Miller' by Henry James

  6. The world was different — whether for worse or for better — from her rudimentary readings, and it gave her the feeling of a wasted past

  7. I have left her en l'air | Henry James, Isabel Archer, The Portrait of a Lady

    I have left her en l'air | Henry James, Isabel Archer, The Portrait of a Lady

  8. Jane Campion : l'excitation de découvrir la vérité des choses et des êtres, et le désir d'être aimée. Deux compagnons difficiles à concilier

    Jane Campion : l'excitation de découvrir la vérité des choses et des êtres, et le désir d'être aimée. Deux compagnons difficiles à concilier

  9. Henry James: my young woman’s extraordinary meditative vigil | the best thing in the book: CHAPTER XLII | The Portrait of a Lady

    Henry James: my young woman’s extraordinary meditative vigil | the best thing in the book: CHAPTER XLII | The Portrait of a Lady

  10. Her mask had dropped for an instant | Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

  11. Henry James, Isabel Archer, Gilbert Osmond: his hatred of her when he finds that she judges him, that she morally protests at so much that surrounds her

    Henry James, Isabel Archer, Gilbert Osmond: his hatred of her when he finds that she judges him, that she morally protests at so much that surrounds her

  12. Henry James, Jeanne de Vionnet: She had been free, as she knew freedom

  13. There were times when Kate wondered if the Miss Condrips were offered her by fate as a warning for her own future | Henry James, The Wings of the Dove

  14. You always saw, in this case, something else than what you were | Henry James, The Wings of the Dove

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