Henry James: 1258 books

'There's no baseness I wouldn't commit for Jeffrey Aspern's sake.' The poet Aspern, long since dead, has left behind some private papers. They are jealously guarded by an old lady, once his mistress and muse, a recluse in an old palazzo in Venice, tended by her ingenuous niece. A predatory critic...

In this classic 1888 novella, an anonymous narrator relates his obsessive quest to acquire some letters and other private documents that once belonged to the deceased Romantic poet Jeffrey Aspern. Attempting to gain access to the papers, the property of Aspern's former mistress, he rents a room in...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: The Path of Duty first appeared in magazine form in The English Illustrated Magazine in December 1884, which had been established the year previously by Macmillan to create a publication with high production...

First published in 1884, and revised substantially in 1900, A Little Tour in France recounts James's six-week tour of provincial France—as he notes "France may be Paris, but Paris is not France." Urbane, witty, knowledgeable, James is a charming tour guide as he leads readers from Touraine to Provence, and thence north again to Burgundy.

Though best known as a novelist, James also wrote non-fiction, including this controversial 1907 account of his 1905-06 American tour.  By 1905 he had lived in England for twenty-five years, and it is as a returning expatriate that James views the country of his birth—and finds much to criticize in its embrace of crass materialism.

James’ plays The Album and The Reprobate were never produced, so he published them in book form in 1895 as the second volume of his Theatricals (1894-5). The Album, which turns on the inheritance of a country house outside London, includes an heir, a long-missing potential rival, and three women...

First published in 1903 as part of the collection called The Better Sort, The Beast in the Jungle is a short novella about John Marcher who has a strong foreboding that his life will be defined by one single spectacular event. He meets May Bartram, a woman he knew earlier in his life and they decide...

One of James’s forays into the supernatural, The Sense of the Past revolves around Ralph Pendrel, a young American who meets one of his ancestors and namesake from the 18th century in an otherworldly encounter. He ultimately travels back in time to trade places with his predecessor. James began work...

The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited American young girl named Isabel Archer, who "affronts her destiny" and finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. The story was...

Considerada una de las mejores obras de James, Lo que Maisie sabía cuenta la historia de Maisie, una niña que a causa del divorcio de sus padres se ve inmersa en el mundo de los adultos, en el que la ambigüedad, la hipocresía, el engaño y la culpa constituyen el complejo entramado de las relaciones...

Con Principessa Casamassima James risponde alle critiche di indifferenza ai problemi sociali e scarsa coscienza politica che gli furono rivolte. Protagonista del romanzo, pubblicato nel 1886, è Hyacinth Robinson, figlio bastardo di un lord inglese e di una prostituta parigina. Entrato a far parte...

This book is intended to be read with your authorized Bible. The information contained in this book and the other two in this Born on the Battlefield series are designed to open your thought processes and make you see how truly unique and magnificent the Bible truly is and can be in your life. These...

This book is intended to be read with your authorized Bible. The information contained in this book and the other two in this Born on the Battlefield series are designed to open your thought processes and make you see how truly unique and magnificent the Bible truly is and can be in your life. These...

The Beast in the Jungle is one of James' finest short novels touching upon such universal themes as loneliness, fate, love and death. The story can be interpreted as a confession or parable about James' own life. He never married and possibly never experienced a consummated sexual relationship. Although...