capital

The action of the story takes place in the summer capital of the British Raj, is a narrative. The author questions the concepts of taste, distinction and pretension in a colonial context. The book keeps you in suspense until the very end.

Ben Cuern is a serious businessman from Philadelphia, who finds himself in a strange story and fails to rush through the elephants named Asok on the streets of the Meeting, the capital of a small Indian province. He sees hundreds of people and sees him reintroduced by Gunga Sahib, a famous character in Hindu mythology, who has to return from day to day to bring the beautiful princess to her legitimate...

The novel comes from what is called James’s ‘late period’. The writing is mannered, baroque, complex, and focused intently on the psychological relationships between his characters. There is very little ‘plot’ here in the conventional sense. Much of the interest in the narrative is centred on the limitations of the principal character, from whose point of view the story is told. Lambert Strether is...

Biznes jest jak gra w golfa. Obie aktywności wymagają koncentracji i samokontroli, zmuszają do rozwoju i odpowiedzialności. Liczba sukcesów i porażek, które spotykają nas po drodze, nie jest istotna. W obu przypadkach najważniejszy jest wynik. Ale droga do jego osiągnięcia może być różna. Golf to gra dżentelmenów, w której liczy się uczciwość, przestrzeganie zasad i styl. W świecie giełdowych graczy...