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A Bundle of Letters
by Henry JamesA Bundle of Letters, is a comic short story by Henry James, originally published in The Parisian magazine in 1879, which is also when the story takes place. The story is one of James' few ventures into epistolary fiction. As he did so often, especially in the early stages of his career, James made the tale part of his international theme: his lette..
Roderick Hudson
by Henry JamesRoderick Hudson is a novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1875 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, it is a bildungsroman that traces the development of the title character, a sculptor. Rowland Mallet, a wealthy Bostonian bachelor and art connoisseur, visits his cousin Cecilia in Northampton, Massachusetts, before leaving for Europe. There..
Some Short Stories
by Henry JamesHenry James, OM was an American author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. The short stories in this volume areBROOKSMITHTHE REAL THINGTHE STORY OF ITFLICKERBRIDGEMRS. MEDWIN..
The Lesson of the Master
by Henry JamesThe Lesson of the Master is a novella written by Henry James, originally published in 1888. The novella tells the story of a young writer, Paul Overt, who meets Henry St. George, a famous novelist Overt admires. During that time, Overt also meets and falls in love with Marian Fancourt, a young woman who admires both St. George's and Overt's work. D..
Four Meetings
by Henry JamesFour Meetings written by Henry James is a simple but very touching story which hovers ambiguously between a comic and a tragic tone. As so frequently in James’s work, there is an ‘International’ element to the tale – in this case the powerful attraction which European culture had for Americans. The tension between pathos and bitter irony make it di..
The Awkward Age
by Henry JamesThe Awkward Age is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in Harper's Weekly in 1898-1899 and then as a book later in 1899. 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 Eng..
The Marriages
by Henry JamesThe Marriages by Henry James is about the attitude of Adela who do not like the presence of Mrs. Churcley that will replace her mother positions who had died six months earlier. Adela trying to find ways so Mrs. Churchley can not married to his father. But, Colonel Chart and Mrs. Churchley are looks like they love each others by their attitudes bet..
The Spoils of Poynton
by Henry JamesThe Spoils of Poynton is a novel by Henry James, first published under the title The Old Things as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1896 and then as a book in 1897. This novel traces the shifting relations among three human beings and a magnificent collection of art, decorative arts, and furniture arrayed like jewels in a country house called Po..