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The Golden Bowl

The Golden Bowl

by Henry James

The Golden Bowl is a adultery fiction novel written by American novelist Henry James who is known  for his short narratives such as Daisy Miller, A Passionate Pilgrim, The Beast in the Jungle, and The Aspern Papers.The Golden Bowl narrates how the father-daughter relationships intimacy went on to spoil their marriages and oust their spouses. &..

Sons and Lovers

Sons and Lovers

by D. H. Lawrence

Sons and lovers is a controversial novel by written by English novelist D.H Lawrence, which explores the life of Gertrude Coppard, who ignores the conventional barriers of sexual desires and went on to create relationships with her own sons, ignoring her husband. While the intimacy of her sons slowly starts dilute, when they encounter with their su..

The Awkward Age

The Awkward Age

by Henry James

The 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 Sacred Fount

The Sacred Fount

by Henry James

The Sacred Fount is a novel by Henry James, first published in 1901. This strange, often baffling book concerns an unnamed narrator who attempts to discover the truth about the love lives of his fellow guests at a weekend party in the English countryside. He spurns the "detective and keyhole" methods as ignoble, and instead tries to decipher these ..

The Outcry

The Outcry

by Henry James

The Outcry is a novel by Henry James published in 1911. It was originally conceived as a play. James cast the material in a three-act drama in 1909, but like many of his plays, it failed to be produced. (There were two posthumous performances in 1917.) In 1911 James converted the play into a novel, which was successful with the public. The Outcry w..

The Patagonia

The Patagonia

by Henry James

The Patagonia" by Henry James is a 1891 story about a ship, The Patagonia, that sailed from Boston to Liverpool.Henry James, OM (15 April 1843 - 28 February 1916) 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 l..

The Secret Sharer

The Secret Sharer

by Joseph Conrad

The Secret Sharer is a short story by Polish-British author Joseph Conrad, originally written in 1909. The Secret Sharer takes place on a sailing ship in the Gulf of Siam (now the Gulf of Thailand), at the start of a voyage with cargo for Britain. The date is probably in the 1880s, when Conrad was at sea himself. In common with many of Conrad's sto..

The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" -  A Tale Of The Forecastle

The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" - A Tale Of The Forecastle

by Joseph Conrad

The Nigger of the 'Narcissus: A Tale of the Forecastle is a novella by Joseph Conrad. Because of its quality compared to earlier works, some have described it as marking the start of Conrad's major, or middle, period; others have placed it as the best work of his early, or first, period.  The title character, James Wait, is a dying West Indian..