Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady (version 2)

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Henry James



The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 an…

What Maisie Knew

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Henry James



When Beale and Ida Farange are divorced, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between…

The Turn of the Screw

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Henry James



The Turn of the Screw is a novella written by Henry James. It is a ghost story that was originally published in 1898. A nameless governess…

The Golden Bowl

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Henry James



The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some cri…

Washington Square

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Henry James



Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Ma…

The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 1

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Henry James



The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 …

Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts

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Henry James



Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne, a compatr…

The Europeans

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Henry James



The Europeans: A sketch is a short novel by Henry James, published in 1878. It is essentially a comedy contrasting the behaviour and attitud…

The Art of Fiction

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Henry James



A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…

The Wheel of Time

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Henry James



Fanny Knocker is a very, very plain young woman. She is introduced to the extremely handsome, thoroughly impoverished, younger son of an old…

The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 2

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Henry James



The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 …

Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts (version 2 dramatic reading)

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Henry James



Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James first appearing in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1879, and in book form the following year. …

The Wings of the Dove

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Henry James



"The Wings of the Dove," published in 1902, represents to my memory a very old--if I shouldn't perhaps rather say a very young--mo…

The Jolly Corner

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Henry James



"The Jolly Corner," published in 1908, is considered by many to be a ghost story ranking second only to "The Turn of the Scre…

The Bostonians, Vol. 1 & 2

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Henry James



This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chance…

The Liar

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Henry James



A successful painter reconnects with the woman he once loved during a visit to an English country house. His surprise is great when he learn…

The Beast in the Jungle

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Henry James



'The Beast in the Jungle' is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection, The Better Sort. Almost universally c…

The Real Thing

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Henry James



The Real Thing is, on one level, a somewhat ironic tale of an artist and two rather particular models. Yet it also raises questions about th…

The Figure in the Carpet

Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James



The story ostensibly concerns a young literary critics who greatly admires the writer Hugh Vereker. A meeting with Vereker, however, shows h…

Roderick Hudson

Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James



Published as a serial in 1875, Roderick Hudson is James's first important novel. The theme of Americans in Europe, so important in much of J…

The Princess Casamassima

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Henry James



Princess Casamassima can be read on several levels: first, as a political and social novel, exploring the anarchistic and revolutionary unde…

In the Cage

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Henry James



In the Cage is a novella by Henry James, first published as a book in 1898. This long story centers on an unnamed London telegraphist. She d…

The Awkward Age

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Henry James



Nanda Brookenham is coming of age, and thus 'coming out' in London society - which leads to complications in her family's social set in Lond…

The Reverberator

Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James



Another Jamesian look at Americans in Paris. What happens when a reporter for an American scandal sheet (The Reverberator) is looking for a …

Sir Dominick Ferrand

Gelesen von Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)


Henry James



"Levity" is not a word often applied to Henry James, but this story has about it an attractively lighthearted quality. It tells of…

A London Life

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Henry James



A devoted sister attempts to check her sibling's scandalous behavior in the world of British high society. A delightful comedy of Anglo-Ame…

The Chaperon

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Henry James



What on earth is a girl to do when London society has convicted her mother of a dreadful sin and has ostracized her? If blood is thicker tha…

Owen Wingrave

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Henry James



A young man of good family with a long distinguished military tradition indicates that he will not follow his ancestors' path into the army.…

The Lesson of the Master

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Henry James



A promising young writer meets an older man whose works have inspired him, as well as a highly intelligent and attractive young woman, at a …

The Last of the Valerii

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Henry James



An unnamed American painter resident in Rome serves as narrator in this story, watching as his god-daughter Martha, becomes the wife of Prin…

The Papers

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Henry James



Today the world is awash with “celebrities” whose only accomplishment is being celebrated by the media in all its various forms. Henry James…

Sir Edmund Orme

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Henry James



Henry James wrote a number of ghost stories -- The Turn of the Screw being the most famous. Did he believe in ghosts himself, as did many of…

The Birthplace

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Henry James



Neither the name of Shakespeare nor that of Stratford appears directly in this short piece by James, and yet both are absolutely central to …

The Altar of the Dead

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Henry James



A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores how the protagonist tries to keep the remembrance of his dead friends, …

A Small Boy and Others

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Henry James



A Small Boy and Others is a book of autobiography by Henry James published in 1913. The book covers James's earliest years and discusses his…

The Sacred Fount

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Henry James



Published in 1901, The Sacred Fount delves into the interior observations and obsessions of one Englishman during a weekend gathering in the…

Collaboration

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Henry James



It is Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War (1870--Germany won--the French Second Republic collapsed--France embittered). A French po…

The Third Person

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Henry James



The Third Person is an amusing spoof on spooking. The 'ghostly man about the house' in whom two increasingly competitive maiden ladies come …

The Coxon Fund

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Henry James



This novella explores the relationship between Frank Saltram, a charismatic speaker who is also a freeloader; Ruth Anvoy, a young American w…