Bathsheba Everdene is young, proud, and beautiful. She is an independent woman and can marry any man she chooses - if she chooses. In fact, she likes her independence, and she likes fighting her own battles in a man's world. But it is never wise to ignore the power of love. There are three men who would very much like to marry Bathsheba. When she falls in love with one of them, she soon wishes she had kept her independence. She learns that love brings misery, pain, and violent passions that can destroy lives . ..
Mike Lacey Libri
Grande affresco dell’epoca postnapoleonica e al tempo stesso appassionato romanzo d’amore, Il rosso e il nero, il capolavoro di Stendhal pubblicato nel 1830, inaugura magistralmente la felice stagione del romanzo ottocentesco. La vicenda di Julien Sorel, giovane di umili natali, intelligente, sensibile, esuberante, ambizioso, che cerca di farsi largo tra la mediocrità imperante nella Francia della Restaurazione sfruttando i favori e poi innamorandosi di due donne, è lo specchio di un tempo difficile, di una realtà ostile, di un potere politico ingiusto, di un inarrestabile svilimento morale, di una inaccettabile tirannia dell’opinione pubblica. Il giudizio di Stendhal sui suoi contemporanei emerge in tal modo severo, definitivo, implacabile, anche laddove il suo coerente e vigoroso realismo si arricchisce di una passionalità spontanea, impetuosa, tipicamente romantica.
Originally published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1878 and in book form in 1879, Daisy Miller brought Henry James his first widespread commercial and critical success. The young Daisy Miller, an American on holiday with her mother on the shores of Switzerland’s Lac Leman, is one of James’s most vivid and tragic characters. Daisy’s friendship with an American gentleman, Mr. Winterbourne, and her subsequent infatuation with a passionate but impoverished Italian bring to life the great Jamesian themes of Americans abroad, innocence versus experience, and the grip of fate. As Elizabeth Hardwick writes in her Introduction, Daisy Miller “lives on, a figure out of literature who has entered history as a name, a vision.”