Henry James (1843—1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism. In «The Sacred Fount» an unnamed narrator attempts to discover the truth about the love lives of his fellow guests at a weekend party in the English countryside. He spurns the «detective and keyhole» methods as ignoble, and instead tries to decipher these relationships purely from the behavior and appearance of each guest. He expends huge resources of energy and ingenuity on his theories, much to the bemusement of some people at the party
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Milly Theale, an American heiress in London, is young, hungry for life, and terminally ill. There she meets the dazzling beauty Kate Croy. Unbeknownst to Milly, Kate is madly in love with an old acquaintance of hers, Merton Densher, a young journalist who has everything a woman could want--except money.Intensely aware of her new friend's fate and coveting her fortune, Kate secretly spurs Merton to seduce and marry Milly. But their scheme to inherit her wealth does not go according to plan, and Kate and Merton learn that deceit alters love, and love, deceit
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"Крылья голубки" - знаменитый роман американского писателя Генри Джеймса. Представительница некогда знатного рода, Кейт, влюблена в простого журналиста Мёртона, но традиции и устои XIX века запрещают подобные альянсы: аристократка и бедный писака - плохая пара с любой точки зрения. Но заметив интерес своей богатой подруги к Мёртону, у Кейт возникает план... Однако любовный треугольник существует только по своим собственным законам • Читайте зарубежную литературу в оригинале!
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