Books by Henry James

Portrait of Henry James

Henry James, one of the most refined voices in late nineteenth‑ and early twentieth‑century fiction, is celebrated for his subtle psychological insight and elegant prose. His works often explore the meeting of Old World sophistication with New World innocence, capturing the tensions of culture, class, and moral perception that defined his era.

From the haunting ambiguity of his ghost stories to the intricate social observation of his novels, James's writing continues to reward attentive readers. His mastery of point of view and finely balanced sentences reveal the inner lives of characters with remarkable precision, securing his place as a cornerstone of modern literary realism.

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  • The Turn of the Screw and Owen Wingrave

    Pan Macmillan The Turn of the Screw and Owen Wingrave

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    Book SynopsisDesigned to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector’s Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector’s Library are books to love and treasure. This edition of Henry James’s classic ghost stories features an afterword by bestselling author Kate Mosse OBE.A young governess is employed to look after two orphaned siblings in a grand country house. Isolated and inexperienced, she is at first charmed by the children – but gradually suspects that they may not be as innocent as they seem. She soon begins to see sinister figures at the window, but do they exist solely in her imagination, or are they ghosts intent on a terrible and devastating task? The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is one of the most famous and eerily equivocal ghost stories ever written.Owen Wingrave is the story of a son in a long line of military heroes who refuses to follow tradition, yet proves his bravery in a haunted room.Trade ReviewThere are phrases and scenes in the book written with such skill and care and trickery as to make any reader follow it with a great unease . . . It is a very frightening story -- Colm Tóibín * Guardian *In this age of anxiety, in which a child may be in her room and yet, through a laptop, can be anywhere in the world, The Turn of the Screw is particularly resonant – every parent’s battle to protect their children from unnamed malevolence -- Gillian Flynn * New York Times Book Review *

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  • Embarrassments

    Double 9 Booksllp Embarrassments

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  • Penguin Readers Level 4 Washington Square ELT

    Penguin Random House Children's UK Penguin Readers Level 4 Washington Square ELT

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    Book SynopsisPenguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting material online.Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction, introducing language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content.The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR). Exercises at the back of each Reader help language learners to practise grammar, vocabulary, and key exam skills. Before, during and after-reading questions test readers'' story comprehension and develop vocabulary.Washington Square, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present pe

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  • The Turn of the Screw Dover Thrift Editions

    Dover Publications Inc. The Turn of the Screw Dover Thrift Editions

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    Book SynopsisGripping ghost story by great novelist depicts the sinister transformation of 2 innocent children into flagrant liars and hypocrites. An elegantly told tale of unspoken horror and psychological terror.

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  • Cambridge University Press The Reverberator

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  • Cambridge University Press Watch and Ward

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  • Cambridge University Press The Bostonians

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  • Cambridge University Press The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama Volume 1 Art

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  • Level 3 Turn of the Screw

    Pearson Education Limited Level 3 Turn of the Screw

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    Book Synopsis A young woman comes to a big house to teach two young children. It’s her first job and she wants to do it well. But she begins to see strange things – the ghosts of dead people. Do the ghosts want the children?

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  • Madame de Mauves  Other Tales

    Quercus Publishing Madame de Mauves Other Tales

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  • The Turn of the Screw (Legend Classics)

    Legend Press Ltd The Turn of the Screw (Legend Classics)

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  • The Wings Of The Dove

    Everyman The Wings Of The Dove

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    Book SynopsisIn this extraordinary variation on the theme of the eternal triangle, Henry James contrasts two women who love one man: the magnificent but ambitious and unscrupulous Kate Croy, and the fragile heiress Millie Theale whose early death precipitates the story's surprising outcome. Together with THE GOLDEN BOWL and THE AMBASSADORS, this novel completes a celebrated trilogy in which James explores his perennial themes of love and renunciation with all the strength, drama and subtlety of a very great writer at the height of his powers. The book is published to coincide with the film starring Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Elizabeth McGovern, Charlotte Rampling and Alison Elliot.

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  • Henry James Collected Stories Box Set

    Everyman Henry James Collected Stories Box Set

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    Book SynopsisHenry James was born on 15th April 1843 in Washington Place, New York to a wealthy and intellectual family and as a youth travelled between Europe and America. His first novel, Watch and Ward, was published in 1871 after first appearing serially in Atlantic Monthly. After a brief period in Paris, James moved first to London and then later to Rye in Sussex. He became a British citizen in 1915 to declare his loyalty to his adopted country as well as to protest against America's refusal to enter the war on behalf of Britain. Henry James was a prolific writer and critic and from around 1875 until his death he maintained a strenuous schedule of publications in a variety of genres: novels, short story collections, literary criticism, travel writing, biography and autobiography. He died in 1916.

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  • Henry James Collected Stories Vol 2

    Everyman Henry James Collected Stories Vol 2

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    Book SynopsisVolume 2 Takes us from A private Life of 1892 to James's last story, A Round of Visits, published in 1910. These are the magnificient works of James' maturity - The Death of the Lion, The Altar of the Dead, The Figyre in the Carpet, The Turn of the Screw, In the Cage, The Beast in the Jungle and many others - in which the deepening darkness of the author's own life casts a tragic but heroic shadow on the themes of his youth.

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  • The Golden Bowl

    DOUBLE 9 BOOKSLLP The Golden Bowl

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  • Double9 Books The Aspern Papers

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  • Eugene Pickering

    Double 9 Booksllp Eugene Pickering

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  • A Landscape Painter

    Double 9 Booksllp A Landscape Painter

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  • A Little Tour in France

    EduCart A Little Tour in France

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  • The Patagonia

    Double 9 Booksllp The Patagonia

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  • Double 9 Booksllp The Spoils of Poynton

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  • The Wings of the Dove

    Oxford University Press The Wings of the Dove

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    Book SynopsisABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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  • Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner

    Pushkin Press Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner

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    Book SynopsisSurrounded by the artists, writers and musicians who made up her court in Boston as they did in Venice, Isabella Stewart Gardner, a passionate art collector, was as revered and sought after as royalty. Henry James was inspired by the rich and powerful Gardner, as well as by the Palazzo Barbaro in Venice, when he wrote his novel The Wings of the Dove. Gardner was to recreate a larger-than-life version of Palazzo Barbaro in Boston, which is now the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. These dazzling letters bring to life James's passion for Venice and the Palazzo Barbaro, and serve as an introduction to the fascinating world of Isabella Stewart Gardner herself.

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  • Roderick Hudson

    Penguin Books Ltd Roderick Hudson

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    Book SynopsisWhen wealthy Rowland Mallet first sees a sculpture by Roderick Hudson, he is astounded and pronounces it to be a work of genius, and is equally entranced by the sculptor''s beauty, spirit and charisma. Wishing to give the impoverished artist the opportunity to develop his talent, he takes Roderick from America to Rome, where he becomes the talk of the city. But Roderick soon loses his inspiration and Rowland loses control of his protégé, while both fall in love with women they cannot ever have. Can Roderick be saved from the path to self-destruction he seems set on? One of Henry James''s first novels, Roderick Hudson (1875) is a compelling depiction of the artistic temperament and of a young man who, like Icarus, flies too close to the sun.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout hi

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  • The Awkward Age

    Penguin Books Ltd The Awkward Age

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    Book SynopsisMaking her debut in London society, Nanda Brookenham is being groomed for the marriage market. Thrust suddenly into the superficial and immoral circle that surrounds her mother, the innocent but independent-minded young woman even finds herself in competition with Mrs Brookenham for the affection of the man she admires. Only an elderly bachelor, Mr Longdon, is immune to this world of greed and scheming, and determines to rescue Nanda from its corrupting influences out of loyalty to the deep love he once felt for her grandmother. In The Awkward Age (1899), Henry James explores the English character, and the clash between old and new money with a light and subtly ironic touch to create a devastating critique of society and its machinations.

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  • The Ambassadors

    Oxford University Press The Ambassadors

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    Book SynopsisLambert Strether, a mild middle-aged American of no particular achievements, is dispatched to Paris from the manufacturing empire of Woollett, Massachusetts. The mission conferred on him by his august patron, Mrs Newsome, is to discover what, or who, is keeping her son Chad in the notorious city of pleasure, and to bring him home. But Strether finds Chad transformed by the influence of a remarkable woman; and as the Parisian spring advances, he himself succumbs to the allure of the ''vast bright Babylon'' and to the mysterious charm of Madame de Vionnet. The text of this Oxford World''s Classics paperback is that of the New York edition, with James''s Preface. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authoritie

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  • The Bostonians

    Oxford University Press The Bostonians

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    Book SynopsisThe plot of this novel revolves around the feminist movement in Boston in the 1870s. F.R. Leavis called it one of the two most brilliant novels in the language. The novel''s many allusions to the historical and social background of Boston society are explained in the editorial material. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World''s Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford''s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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  • The Portrait of a Lady

    WW Norton & Co The Portrait of a Lady

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    Book SynopsisHenry James’s most famous novel edited by the critically acclaimed author of Portrait of a Novel.

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  • Cambridge University Press The Jolly Corner and Other Tales 19031910

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  • Cambridge University Press The Outcry

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  • Cambridge University Press The Ambassadors

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  • Cambridge University Press The Prefaces

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  • Cambridge University Press Washington Square

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  • Cambridge University Press The Aspern Papers and Other Tales 18841888

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  • Cambridge University Press The Princess Casamassima

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  • Cambridge University Press The American Scene

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  • Cambridge University Press The Complete Writings of Henry James on Art and Drama Volume 2 Drama

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  • The Turn of the Screw  More Ghost Stories

    Union Square & Co. The Turn of the Screw More Ghost Stories

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    Book SynopsisThe Turn of the Screw, a novella written by Henry James in 1898, is perhaps one of the most widely read ghost stories in classrooms across the country. The story's ambiguity and characters' unreliability also mark the book as a work of impressionism, an important literary movement that's often left out of the children's literary canon. While best-known for The Turn of the Screw, James wrote many ghost stories during his illustrious career. The Romance of Certain Old Clothes and The Ghostly Rental are two of those short stories that young readers will enjoy reading, featuring relatively accessible plots and writing.

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  • John Wiley & Sons The Complete Letters of Henry James 18881891 Volume 2

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  • The Middle Years  Other Tales

    Quercus Publishing The Middle Years Other Tales

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  • The Ambassadors

    Everyman The Ambassadors

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    Book SynopsisThe original American in Paris. This dark comedy, seen as one of the masterpieces of James's final period, has all the elements of great writing, brilliant plot and gorgeous setting- An Edwardian gentleman from the States arrives in seedy and sophisticated Paris to rescue his wayward future step son. But his innocent American background has not prepared him for such seduction... Beautiful hardback gift edition of this collectable classic. This complex tale of self-discovery -- considered by the author to be his best work -- traces the path of an aging idealist, Lambert Strether. Arriving in Paris with the intention of persuading his young charge to abandon an obsession with a French woman and return home, Strether reaches unexpected conclusions.

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  • The Portrait Of A Lady

    Everyman The Portrait Of A Lady

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    Book SynopsisIsabel Archer is a young, intelligent, and spirited American girl, determined to relish her first experience of Europe. She rejects two eligible suitors in her fervent commitment to liberty and independence, declaring that she will never marry. Thanks to the generosity of her devoted cousin Ralph, she is free to make her own choice about her destiny. Yet in the intoxicating worlds of Paris, Florence, and Rome, her fond illusions of self-reliance are twisted by the machinations of her friends and apparent allies. What had seemed to be a vista of infinite promise steadily closes around her and becomes instead a ''house of suffocation''.

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  • Daisy Miller: A Study

    Double 9 Booksllp Daisy Miller: A Study

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  • Portraits of Places

    Double 9 Booksllp Portraits of Places

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  • The Spoils of Poynton Oxford Worlds Classics

    Oxford University Press The Spoils of Poynton Oxford Worlds Classics

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  • The Turn of the Screw

    Arcturus Publishing Ltd The Turn of the Screw

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    Book SynopsisHow can I retrace today the strange steps of my obsession... The Turn of the Screw tells the tale of an unnamed governess who lives with her two charges in an isolated country house. After living for a while in blissful harmony, the governess begins to spy ghostly apparitions roaming the grounds. She becomes obsessed with these figures that only she can see, and strives to protect the children from their malevolent designs. But the situation soon begins to spiral out of control. This uneasy and sinister novella is a genius work of horror fiction, surrounding the terrors that emerge from everyday life.ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Silhouette Classics are high-quality hardback editions with contemporary cover-designs. Presented with dust jackets and beautiful colour end-papers, the titles in this series make wonderful gifts or collectibles for any classic literature lover.

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  • The American

    Penguin Books Ltd The American

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    Book SynopsisHenry James''s third novel is an exploration of his most powerful, perennial theme - the clash between European and American cultures, the Old World and the New. Christopher Newman, a ''self-made'' American millionaire in France, falls in love with the beautiful aristocratic Claire de Bellegarde. Her family, however, taken aback by his brash American manner, rejects his proposal of marriage. When Newman discovers a guilty secret in the Bellegardes'' past, he confronts a moral dilemma: Should he expose them and thus gain his revenge? James''s masterly early work is at once a social comedy, a melodramatic romance and a realistic novel of manners.

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  • The Spoils of Poynton Classics S

    Penguin Publishing Group The Spoils of Poynton Classics S

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    Book SynopsisMrs Gereth is convinced that Fleda Vetch would make the perfect daughter-in-law. Only the dreamy, highly-strung young woman can genuinely appreciate, and perhaps eventually share, Mrs Gereth's passion for her 'things' - the antique treasures she has amassed at Poynton Park in the south of England. Owen Gereth, however, has inconveniently become engaged to the uncultured Mona Brigstock. As a dramatic family quarrel unfolds, the hesitating Fleda is drawn in, yet she remains reluctant to captivate Owen, who seems as attracted to her as she is to him. Is she motivated by scruple or fear? In The Spoils of Poynton (1897), Henry James created a work of exquisite ambiguity in his depiction of three women fighting for the allegiance of one weak-willed man.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout hi

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