Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘A Small Boy and Others’.A Small Boy and Others is a book of autobiography by Henry James published in 1913. The book covers James' earliest years and discusses his intellectually active family, his intermittent schooling, and his first trips to Europe.Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American writer who spent most of his writing career in Britain. He is regarded as one of the key figures...

**Henry James, Jr., (**Nova Iorque, 15 de abril de 1843 — Londres, 28 de fevereiro de 1916) foi um escritor nascido nos Estados Unidos e naturalizado britânico. Uma das principais figuras do realismo na literatura do século XIX. Autor de alguns dos romances, contos e críticas literárias mais importantes da literatura de língua inglesa, como: "Retrato de uma Senhora", "A Herdeira", "A Volta do Parafuso", Os Quatro Encontros, As Asas da Pomba, entre outros. Mais de cem anos ...

Henry James foi um renomado escritor norte americano. James escreveu cerca de vinte romances que tiveram grande aceitação de público e da crítica, tais como: "Retrato de uma Senhora", "A Herdeira" e "A Volta do Parafuso", entre outros. A Herdeira é um romance clássico, ambientado na Nova York de meados do século XIX, uma sociedade ainda bastante provinciana e fechada. A história gira em torno das conquistas e decepções afetivas de Catherine Harrington, um...

Italian Hours is a book of travel writing by Henry James published in 1909. The book collected essays that James had written over nearly forty years about a country he knew and loved well. James extensively revised and sometimes expanded the essays to create a more consistent whole. He also added two new essays and an introduction.Italian Hours ends with the phrase, "the luxury of loving Italy," and everything in the book indicates that James enjoyed this luxury to the fullest. But...

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 a staple of late Victorian literature. "The Buccaneers," Edith Wharton called them, and their day is not over yet (think of Downton Abbey's Earl of Grantham, and his American heiress countess). In Lady Barbari...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from James Henry, ‘The Diary of a Man of Fifty.’Returning to Florence after 25 years of military service, a man finds himself haunted by memories of a thwarted love affair that took place on the banks of the Arno during his youth. On inquiring after the erstwhile object of his affections, he encounters a young man in amorous pursuit of her daughter. Eager to spare his young friend the sorrow that has marred his own life, the man finds him...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from James Henry, ‘The Chaperon.’“An old lady, in a high drawing-room, had had her chair moved close to the fire, where she sat knitting and warming her knees. She was dressed in deep mourning; her face had a faded nobleness, tempered, however, by the somewhat illiberal compression assumed by her lips in obedience to something that was passing in her mind. She was far from the lamp, but though her eyes were fixed upon her active needles s...

When a beautiful, spoilt, aristocratic woman with revolutionary ambitions meets an idealistic young proletarian conspirator who dreams of a better life, the stage is set for The Princess Casamassima in which Henry James explores the London underworld and the political unrest seething there in the later nineteenth century. In the end, Christina Light’s waywardness proves fatal for the fancifully named Hyacinth Robinson, but not before the typically Jamesian encounter of instinct and intelli...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from James Henry, ‘The Madonna of the Future.’We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece -- the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched the high level of perfection. Our host had been showing us a charming little cabinet picture by a painter whose name we had never heard, and who, after this single spasmodic bid for fame, had apparently relapsed into obsc...

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 to none of his fellow-passengers; the case being that Vogelstein inquired not only with his tongue, but with his eyes--that is with his spectacles--with his ears, with his nose, with his palate, with all his sense...

The novel follows middle-aged Lambert Strether as he is dispatched from Massachusetts to Paris by his wealthy fiancée to rescue her son, Chad Newsome, from the corrupting influences of Europe and its wicked women. Once the mild-mannered and inexperienced Strether arrives in Paris, however, Chad introduces him to a world that he finds refined and sophisticated, rather than debauched and base. Mrs. Newsome, waiting in Massachusetts, grows impatient and sends more ambassadors to retrieve her ...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from James Henry, ‘A London Life, and Other Tales.’Henry James surprises one with every work, even after years of reading him. Here in A London Life is the familiar calm omniscient anonymous narrative voice telling the story, but the story itself is full of hard things, emotional violence, and financial violence, and not just scaled to the era in which it takes place.Henry James, OM, son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of t...