This volume collects the complete novels of Henry James (in the chronological order of their original publication): - 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 - The Wings of the Dove - The Ambassadors - The Golden Bowl - The Outcry - ...

A young governess arrives at Bly, a country home in Essex, England, to care for Miles and Flora, two precocious and pure children. But as ghostly visions take shape, the obsessively protective governess soon fears for the safety of her wards—only to wonder if these hauntings are a conjuring of her own imagination. In challenging what we see—and what we believe we see—in the dark of the night, The Turn of the Screw stands as one of the boldest and most chilling ghost stories ever told.

A desperate scholar infiltrates a crumbling Venetian palace to hunt for the private papers of a deceased romantic poet. He enters a psychological duel with an elderly woman who guards the secrets of the past with fierce tenacity. This suspenseful narrative explores the dark obsession of the historian and the sanctuary of privacy.

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 Hawthorne's novels and a selection of his short stories. He also reviewed Hawthorne's life and some of his nonfiction. The book became somewhat controversial for a famous section where James enumerated the items of novelistic interest he thought were absent from American life.Henry...

The Portrait of a Lady was, like "Roderick Hudson," begun in Florence, during three months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like "Roderick" and like "The American," it had been designed for publication in "The Atlantic Monthly," where it began to appear in 1880. It differed from its two predecessors, however, in finding a course also open to it, from month to month, in "Macmillan's Magazine"; which was to be for me one of the last occasions of simultaneous "serialisation" in the two coun...

A master of American literature presents a tragicomic, coming-of-age romance.Set in New York against the backdrop of 1880s high society, Washington Square is one of the most beloved novels from master Henry James, and its exploration of interfamily strife and power dynamics, as well as its early take on gender issues, continue to resonate with readers today.Catherine Sloper is the only child of the successful Dr. Austin Sloper, residing with the phy...

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In Henry James' gothic ghost story, a young governess is brought to a country home to care for two orphans whose previous governess had recently died. The house is large and remote, and the children cute and precocious—the job seems like a dream come true. Soon, however, she begins to sense an evil lurking in the grand estate. She sees supernatural figures appear on the grounds, who she comes to believe are the ghosts of the previous governess and another member of staff who both died unde...

After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each other. Maisie - solitary, observant and wise beyond her years - is drawn into an increasingly entangled adult world of intrigue and sexual betrayal, until she is finally compelled to choose her own future. What Maisie Knew is a subtle yet devastating portrayal of an innocent adrift in a corrupt society. Part of ...

The illegitimate and impoverished son of a dressmaker and a nobleman, Hyacinth Robinson has grown up with a strong sense of beauty that heightens his acute sympathy for the inequalities that surround him. Drawn into a secret circle of radical politics he makes a rash vow to commit a violent act of terrorism. But when the Princess Casamassima - beautiful, clever and bored - takes him up and introduces him to her own world of wealth and refinement, Hyacinth is torn. He is horrified by the de...

Classic essay from the collection "Partial Portraits". According to Wikipedia: "Partial Portraits is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1888. The book collected essays that James had written over the preceding decade, mostly on English and American writers. But the book also offered treatments of Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant and Ivan Turgenev. Perhaps the most important essay was The Art of Fiction, James' plea for the widest possible freedom in content and tech...

”The Aspern Papers” is one of the masterpieces of the writer’s „small” prose, the plots of which are based on the collision of European and American cultural consciousness, the „point of view” of an individual and social stereotypes, the „book” perception of the world and individual experience. The tragicomic search by the hapless biographer of the lost letters of the great poet is the conflict of this story.