In THE WINGS OF THE DOVE, Kate Croy, a penniless young Englishwoman, tries to arrange a marriage between her fiancT Merton Densher and the American heiress she has befriended, knowing that Millie, the heiress, has a fatal illness and ...
Italian Hours (Stanfords Travel Class...
Henry JamesHenry James was a renowned observer of European culture, in both his fiction and in his life. In particular, he loved Italy, visiting it 14 times during his lifetime and setting several of his novels in the country. Between 1873 and 1...
The Turn of the Screw & in the Cage
Henry JamesThis Modern Library Paperback Classics edition brings together one of literature's most famous ghost stories and one of Henry James's most unusual novellas. In The Turn of the Screw, a governess is haunted by ghosts from her young cha...
What Maisie Knew (Penguin Classics)
Henry JamesA new edition of the innovative, emotionally complex novel. After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each o...
The Turn of the Screw and Other Stori...
Henry JamesWhether viewed as a subtle, self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture, filled with echoes of sexual and social unease, or simply as 'the most hopelessly evil story we have ever read,' The Turn of the Scr...
The Turn of the Screw (Wisehouse Clas...
Henry JamesTHE TURN OF THE SCREW, originally published in 1898, is a gothic ghost story novella written by Henry James. Due to its original content, the novella became a favorite text of academics who subscribe to New Criticism. The novella has ...
A Little Tour in France: The Original...
Henry JamesComplete digitally restored reprint (facsimile handmade reproduction) of the original edition of 1885 with excellent resolution and outstanding readability. The Layout is +20 % larger as the original for a better readability. "...
A London Life, and Other Tales & The ...
Henry JamesA London Life is a novella by Henry James, first published in Scribner's Magazine in 1888. The plot revolves around a crumbling marriage and its impact on many other people, especially Laura Wing, the sister of the soon-to-be-divorced...
A Passionate Pilgrim, Hawthorne & The...
Henry JamesA Passionate Pilgrim is a novella by Henry James, first published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1871. The story was the earliest fiction that James included in the New York Edition (1907-09) of his works. Set in England, the tale shows J...
A Small Boy and Others & The Spoils o...
Henry JamesThe Spoils of Poynton is a novel by Henry James, first published under the title The Old Things as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1896 and then as a book in 1897. This novel traces the shifting relations among three people and a ...
Alexandra's Accident: A Little Girl C...
Henry JamesAlexandra is spending the night with her grandparents while her mother and father have an outing. However, disaster strikes after dinner when her grandfather takes her for a walk. Read about the accident, what happened after it and ho...
Best of James: Washington Square (Ill...
Henry JamesA nice edition with 12 illustrations from the 1881 release.\n\nWashington Square is a short novel by Henry James published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper\'s New Monthly Magazine. It is a structurally simple tragic...
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Famous novella chronicles a young American girl's willful yet innocent flirtation with a young Italian, and its unfortunate consequences. Throughout, James contrasts American customs and values with European manners and morals in a na...
Daisy Miller (with an Introduction by...
Henry JamesFirst published in "Cornhill Magazine" in 1878, "Daisy Miller" is Henry James' novella which concerns the courtship of its titular character, the beautiful young American girl Daisy Miller. While travelling in Euro...
Daisy Miller and Other Stories (Oxfor...
Henry JamesThe tale of Daisy's irruption into staid European society enjoyed, as did Daisy herself, a succes de scandale; and it has remained one of Jamess most popular short stories. Like the others collected here--'Pandora,' 'The Patagonia,' a...
A wonderful new collection of tales exploring Henry James's favourite 'international theme': the experiences of Americans in Europe, and the meeting of the old world and new. Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's great heroines - a you...
The book, Embarrassments , has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and futu...
Eugene Pickering & Daisy Miller: A St...
Henry JamesDaisy Miller is a novel by Henry James that first appeared in Cornhill Magazine in June-July 1878, and in book form the following year. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a sophistic...
The book "" Four Meetings "" has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern forma...
Four Meetings & Embarrassments
Henry JamesHenry James OM (15 April 1843 - 28 February 1916) was an American author, who became a British subject in the last year of his life, regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism and is consider...
Four Meetings, Embarrassments & A Lon...
Henry JamesA London Life is a novella by Henry James, first published in Scribner's Magazine in 1888. The plot revolves around a crumbling marriage and its impact on many other people, especially Laura Wing, the sister of the soon-to-be-divorced...
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It will be necessary, for several reasons, to give this short sketch the form rather of a critical essay than of a biography. The data for a life of Nathaniel Hawthorne are the reverse of copious, and even if they were abundant they w...
Italian Hours, What Maisie Knew & The...
Henry JamesItalian Hours is a book of travel writing by Henry James published in 1909. The book collected essays that James had written over nearly forty years about a country he knew and loved well. James extensively revised and sometimes expan...
Lady Barbarina & Sir Dominick Ferrand...
Henry JamesHenry James OM (15 April 1843 - 28 February 1916) was an American author, who became a British subject in the last year of his life, regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism and is consider...
Louisa Pallant, The Tragic Muse & Geo...
Henry JamesThe Tragic Muse is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1889-1890 and then as a book in 1890. This wide, cheerful panorama of English life follows the fortunes of two would-be artists: Nic...
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Madame de Mauves & A Passionate Pilgr...
Henry JamesMadame de Mauves is a novella by Henry James, originally published in The Galaxy magazine in 1874. The story centers on the troubled marriage of a scrupulous American wife and a far from scrupulous French husband, and is told mostly f...
Nona Vincent and The Real Thing
Henry JamesTwo short stories by Henry James explore the intersections and tensions between art and reality, depiction and intent. In "Nona Vincent," a poor, ambitious playwright creates what he is certain is a masterpiece but despairs ...