PDF Books in Fiction Short Stories
The Chaperon
by Henry JamesThe Chaperon is a short story by Henry James. Exploring the intricacies of relationships, this narrative captures the imagination of the reader. The well-drawn characters are rooted in the plot and elucidate the theme. A charming tale of family love and relationships...
Georgina's Reasons
by Henry JamesHenry James's 1884 tale “Georgina's Reasons” presents readers with an insoluble hermeneutic problem regarding its heroine's motivation. This essay applies four interpretative frameworks — theological, political, scientific and geographical — to the question of the heroine's “reasons”. Each way of interpreting the story aligns with a genre of ninete..
Sir Dominick Ferrand
by Henry JamesLevity is not a word often applied to Henry James, but this story has about it an attractively lighthearted quality. It tells of Peter Baron, a poor, young struggling writer of adequate, if not transcendent, talent, who lives in a dreary London boarding house inhabited also by a mysteriously clairvoyant and beautiful young widow, with her small boy..
The Diary of a Man of Fifty
by Henry JamesHenry James' short story The Diary of a Man of Fifty is a moving and thought-provoking meditation on aging and coming to terms with one's past. The narrator pays a return visit to Italy, where he spent some time many years before, and revisits memories of an ultimately doomed love affair, some painful and some enriching...
Eugene Pickering
by Henry JamesEugene Pickering is a short story by Henry James. Most of the spectators were too attentive to the play to have many thoughts for each other; but before long I noticed a lady who evidently had an eye for her neighbours as well as for the table. She was seated about half-way between my friend and me, and I presently observed that she was ..
The Point of View
by Henry JamesHenry James was one of the leaders in the school of realism in fiction. He is known for his series of novels in which he portrayed the encounter of America with Europe. James is considered to be the master of the novel and novella. James wrote about personal relationships and the power within these relationships. James explored consciousness and pe..
The Secret Sharer
by Joseph ConradThe 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..
Tales of Unrest
by Joseph ConradTales of Unrest is a collection of short stories by Joseph Conrad originally published in 1898. Four of the five stories had been published previously in various magazines. This was the first published collection of any of Conrad's stories.The Stories"Karain: A Memory", first published in Blackwood's magazine in 1897"The Idiots", first published in..