Henry James: 1258 books

An unnamed narrator meets Caroline Spencer on four separate occasions. He is a well-travelled and sophisticated Europhile. She is a simple spinster with a passion for European culture who has saved from her earnings as a schoolteacher to finance her own version of the Grand Tour. (Google)

THE NOVELS Watch and Ward, Roderick Hudson, The American, The Europeans, Confidence, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Reverberator, The Tragic Muse, The Other House, The Spoils of Poynton, What Maisie Knew, The Awkward Age, The Sacred Fount,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: The patience was needed for the particular feature of the ordeal that, by the time the lively season was with them again, had disengaged itself as the sharpest -- the immense assumption of veracities and...

Widely recognized as one of literature's most gripping ghost stories, this classic tale of moral degradation concerns the sinister transformation of two innocent children into flagrant liars and hypocrites. The story begins when a governess arrives at an English country estate to look after Miles,...

*** Original and Unabridged Content. Made available by GOLDEN CLASSIC PRESS*** Synopsis: My relative, as it proved, was not sufficiently restored to leave the place by the afternoon train; so that as the autumn dusk began to fall I found myself at liberty to call at the establishment named...

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Daisy Miller portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by Winterbourne, a sophisticated compatriot of hers. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates when they meet in Switzerland and Italy.

Washington Square is a simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet daughter and her brilliant, unemotional father. After the death of his beautiful and gifted wife Dr. Sloper's heart has grown cold, but his head functions perfectly. He is pretty cruel to his daughter Catherine and against her romance with Morris Townsend.

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