James: 5752 books

A hundred years ago, when the lively Miss Frances Burney was weeping over the wrongs of Warren Hastings, and the learned and portly Gibbon was still lamenting that he had not entered on an Indian career, there were people in the British Isles who knew something of Indian history. They had picked up...

A Chicago area tycoon, T. Jackson Bender, is brutally murdered at his home in Winnetka on the Fourth of July. The motive seems obvious. After all, the man was worth billions. The big question is: who stands to profit the most from his sudden demise? Burton James, along with his longtime buddy Patrick...

Reflection on the Looking Glass, (Thoughts on being an Actor in our Times). In this jaunty ride through the world of acting, Peter James Haworth, actor, director, teacher, and devoted student of acting, brings his thirty years of experience to vivid life in Reflection on the Looking Glass....

Dark shadows in a collection of 12 poems taken from the book Past Visions. These poems discuss and deal with life's issues. These are heartfelt moments and subjects that leave the reader wanting to discuss these subjects further. This is the first book of poems by Andrew James Wells.

James didn't know what was set up for him when he entered the old house. He knew very little about his family and didn't know why this big house was left in his possession. While emptying the old house out setting up for renovation he comes across a room filled with strange objects and old photos....

The Pupil is a short, 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 with sympathy and insight, and the story reaches what some would consider the status of classical tragedy.

Mayhem, mishap, and misadventure combined! Have you ever wondered why a rock thrown flat never flies straight? Have you ever survived a night in a den of forty snorers? Did you ever blow up cuisine in the microwave and then try and hide it from your clairvoyant mother?  If so, then...

Henry James:(Nueva York, 1843 - Londres, 1916) Narrador, critico y dramaturgo estadounidense de obra psicologica y estructuralmente compleja.Entre otras convicciones secretas, cual las que todos albergamos, Peter Brench estimaba como el mas grande logro de su vida no haber emitido jamas un juicio comprometedor sobre la obra , como era denominada, de su amigo Morgan Mallow.

En “La próxima vez” emerge un humor ácido, escéptico y despiadado que desconocíamos en James.

Publicado por primera vez en 1900 como parte del volumen The Soft Side, «El mejor de los lugares» es uno de los relatos más celebrados de Henry James, en el que, a través de un escritor apabullado por el éxito, nos ofrece una extraña visión del paraíso y una curiosa interpretación del estrés que podría firmar cualquier autor contemporáneo.

Cuatro entrevistas, una brevisima novela de Henry James en la que se narran las cuatro ocasiones en que el narrador se encuentra con la señorita Spencer, una anodina maestra de Nueva Inglaterra cuyo principal anhelo es poder visitar Europa y empaparse del arte, la historia y el ambiente del viejo continente.

Washington Square es una novela corta de Henry James (escritor estadounidense, 1843-1916).Fue publicada en 1880, es un drama que nos presenta el conflicto entre una joven dulce e ingenua, y su brillante y dominante padre. A menudo se lo compara con Jane Austen, debido a la claridad y brillantez...

Los embajadores es una novela del autor Henry James, publicada en 1903. Inicialmente se publicó por entregas en el North American Review.

Henry James, maestro en fantasmas, reunió en estas cuatro historias todas sus prodigiosas dotes de fabulador de la vida cotidiana. Con el ejercicio de una ambigüedad bien calculada lo que empieza siendo una realidad trivial acaba introduciendo al lector en una nueva dimensión más imaginativa y...