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jens Peter jaCobsen
1847 – 1885, Danish
Niels Lyhne
Translated by Tiina Nunnally
Introduction by Eric O. Johannesson
Winner of The PEN Center USA West
Translation Award
One of Danish literature’s greatest
novels, with nods to Kierkegaard and a
protagonist some critics have compared to
Hamlet, Jacobsen’s masterpiece has at its
center a young poet who faces the anguish
of the human condition but cannot find
comfort in the Christian faith.
224 pp. 978-0-14-303981-5 $15.00
henry jaMes
1843 – 1916, english (b. america)
The Portable Henry James
Edited by John Auchard
Henry James set out to define the
restless—and sometimes innocent—
American imagination in conflict with the
great European tradition. This entirely new
volume provides seven major tales—
among them “Daisy Miller” and “The Turn
of the Screw”—as well as travel writing,
literary criticism, autobiography, passages
from longer novels, and a sampling of his
correspondence.
640 pp. 978-0-14-243767-4 $18.00
128 Penguin ClassiCs
*The Ambassadors
Edited with an Introduction and
Notes by Adrian Poole
Philip Horne, Series Editor
The Ambassadors is a subtle exploration
of American responses to Europe in
which a Boston blueblood’s son becomes
involved with an unsuitable woman.
544 pp. 978-0-14-144132-0 $10.00
The American
Introduction and Notes by
William Spengemann
This story of an American millionaire
rejected by the family of the European
aristocrat he loves is James’s first novel to
dramatize the social relationship between
the Old World and the New.
392 pp. 978-0-14-039082-7 $13.00
henry jaMes
Henry James was born into a brilliant family in New York City in 1843. In 1875,
James moved to Europe, eventually settling in England. His fourth novel, Daisy
Miller—a story about a naïve American girl visiting the Continent—became a
runaway bestseller when it was published in 1879. His tale of the supernatural,
The Turn of the Screw, created a sensation when it appeared in 1898 in Collier’s
Weekly. In it, as in his other works, James explored the interaction between
innocence and corrupt experience. He was one of the first writers in the English
language to embrace stream-of-consciousness writing and greatly influenced the
works of writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, and Edith
Wharton. James died in 1916.