James: 5752 books

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...

"The Altar of the Dead" is a short story by Henry James, first published in his collection Terminations in 1895. A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores how the protagonist tries to keep the remembrance of his dead friends, to save them from being forgotten entirely...

The Pupil is a short story by Henry James, first published in Longman's Magazine in 1891. It is the emotional story of a precocious young boy growing up in a mendacious and dishonorable family. He befriends his tutor, who is the only adult in his life that he can trust. James presents their relationship...

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 sense, "to apply the lesson." Second lives aren't usually available, so the novelist says of...

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 story, the genuine article proves all too useless for his commercial purposes. The story portrays the unfortunate...

Originally conceived as a brief, light story about the complications created in her family's social set by a young girl coming of age, the novel expanded into a general treatment of decadence and corruption in English fin de siècle life. James presents the novel almost entirely in dialogue, an experiment...

The short story is usually referred to as a novella and is told in the first person. The narrator, whose name is never revealed, meets his favorite author and becomes obsessed with discovering the secret meaning or intention within the entire author's works. Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February...

**Book 1 Descriptions: ** It is one year since Kate Murphy lost her husband in a car accident. She has started to rebuild her life and the first thing she does is leave New York for a new job as a secretary in Miami. Her new billionaire boss ĄV James De Vitis ĄV is something of a playboy...

*** FROM USA TODAY & MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDY *** GENGHIS KHAN ORDERED HIS FINAL RESTING PLACE BE KNOWN TO NO ONE. HIS FINAL ORDER WAS OBEYED, ITS LOCATION REMAINING A SECRET. UNTIL TODAY. History tells us Genghis Khan died from a wound received...

*** FROM USA TODAY & MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR J. ROBERT KENNEDY *** THE ARK OF THE COVENANT HAS BEEN FOUND. AND NOW IT MUST BE DESTROYED. When a mysterious priest from the Horn of Africa requests Laura Palmer’s help in preserving an ancient artifact, he refuses to...

DEA agent Domino Petracelli is chasing a career-making promotion and nothing will keep her from getting her man. Okay, so she’d rather infiltrate a Columbian drug cartel than go undercover as a dominatrix at Washington, D.C.’s Xecutive Branch sex club. But she’s up to the task. As the leather-clad...

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 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 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...