Bulgaria

“You`d show then the most beautiful specimen conceivable” and Voyt addresssed himself to Maud. “But doesn`t it prove that life is, against your contention, more interesting than art? Life you embellish and elevate; but...

At this she again met his eyes. “Oh, to tell it would be to express it, and that`s just what I can`t do. What I meant to say just now,” she added, “was that...

I only alluded,” said Voyt, “to the tremendous conscience of your sex. It s more than mihe can keep up with. You take everything too hard. But if you can`t read the novel of...

It was in fact Mrs. Blessingbourne, who had under her arm the book she had gone up for a pair of covers that this time showed a pretty, a candid blue. She was followed...

He was still looking, in the chimney-glass, at the state of his beard brushing from it, with his handkerchief, the traces of wind and wet. “If she also then prefers me when I`m nasty,...

Neither responsibility could in fact have been fixed upon him, and just now, at all events, he was only a pleasant, weather- washed, wind-battered Briton, who brought in from a struggle with the elements...

Mrs. Dyott just waited, and it had the effect, indescribably, of making everything that had gone before seem to have led up to the (piestion. This effect was even deepened by the way she...

Nothing had passed for half an hour nothing, at least, to be exact, but that each of the companions occasionally and covertly intermitted her pursuit in such a manner as to ascertain the degree...

Henry James (1843-1915)Henry James, JR., was born in New York City in 1843. He was educated for the most part abroad. A good deal of his early writing was done in America, but early...

Therewith he harped so sweetly that the notes crept into Iseult`s heart and bare her thoughts so far hence that she ceased weeping, and thought but of her love. Now, when the lay was ended,...