Dead Dodo Presents Henry James: 21 books

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘The Letters of Henry James: Volume Two’.   The Complete Letters of Henry James fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘The Letters of Henry James’.   The Complete Letters of Henry James fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers...

Dodo Classics brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘Some Short Stories.’   A collection of short stories by Henry James...   Four Meetings, A Bundle of Letters, Louisa Pallant, The Liar, The Real Thing, The Pupil, Brooksmith, The Middle Years, The Altar of...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from James Henry, ‘Lady Barbarina.’   Rich and beautiful American girls heading to England to find themselves noble titles through marriage, and using their New World wealth to prop up the waning strength of the aristocracy, was almost...

Dodo Classics brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘Washington Square’.   Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, it is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘Hawthorne’.   Hawthorne is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1879. The book was an insightful study of James' great predecessor, Nathaniel Hawthorne. James gave extended consideration to each of...

Dodo Classics brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘Confidence’.   Confidence is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in Scribner's Monthly in 1879 and then as a book later the same year. This light and somewhat awkward comedy centers on artist Bernie Longueville,...

Dodo Classics brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘Glasses.’   This was a little person whom I would have made a high bid for a good chance to paint. The head, the features, the color, the whole facial oval and radiance had a wonderful purity; the deep grey eyes -- the...

Dodo Classics brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘The Real Thing and Other Tales.’   This story, often read as a parable, plays with the reality-illusion dichotomy that fascinated James, especially in the later stages of his career. For the illustrator who narrates the...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘The Middle Years’.   It may be the most affecting and profound of James's stories about writers. The novelist in the tale speculates that he has spent his whole life learning how to write, so a second life would make...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘In the Cage’.   This long story centers on an unnamed London telegrapher. She deciphers clues to her clients' personal lives from the often cryptic telegrams they submit to her as she sits in the "cage" at...

Dodo Classics brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘The Lesson of the Master.’   Exemplifying Henry James's famous belief that "Art makes life," The Lesson of the Master is a piercing study of the life that art makes. When the tale's protagonist—a gifted young...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from James Henry, ‘Pandora.’   James explored consciousness and perception from the point of view of a character within a tale. Pandora begins, "The process of inquiry had already begun for him, in spite of his having as yet spoken...

Dodo Classics brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘Views and Reviews.’ “When you lay down a proposition which is forthwith controverted, it is of course optional with you to take up the cudgels in its defence. If you are deeply convinced of its truth, you will perhaps be content...