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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  • HardPress Publishing The Novels and Tales of Henry James

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  • HardPress Publishing Substance and Shadow Or Morality and Religion in Their Relation to Life an Essay Upon the Physics of of Creation

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  • HardPress Publishing The Tragic Muse

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  • HardPress Publishing The Novels and Tales of Henry James

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  • HardPress Publishing The Golden Bowl

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  • HardPress Publishing The Secret of Swedenborg

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  • HardPress Publishing An International Episode

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  • Hardpress Publishing The Sense of the Past 1

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  • Hardpress Publishing The Secret of Swedenborg Being an Elucidation of His Doctrine of the Divine Natural Humanity 1

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  • HardPress Publishing Lectures and Miscellanies

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  • HardPress Publishing The Novels and Tales of Henry James the Sense of the Past

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  • HardPress Publishing The Tragic Muse

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  • HardPress Publishing Christianity the Logic of Creation

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  • Impedimenta Gabrielle de Bergerac

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    Book SynopsisLa joven Gabrielle de Bergerac ha tenido la fortuna de nacer en una familia ilustre de la nobleza rural francesa previa a la Revolución. Pero también la desgracia de no contar con bienes propios, circunstancia que hará que cualquier indicio de curiosidad vital, de inquietud intelectual, quede ahogado ante la perspectiva de elegir entre dos opciones igualmente sombrías: o un matrimonio favorable o el claustro. Su carácter noble y su naturaleza indagadora quedarán al descubierto cuando en su cerrado círculo social aparece Coquelin, el preceptor de su sobrino, un hombre pobre pero capaz de demostrar que la audacia, el saber y la belleza son valores que nada tienen que ver con la clase social.Considerada la novela más romántica de James, con influencias tanto de Jane Austen como del propio Molière, Gabrielle de Bergerac es un auténtico prodigio de elegancia formal y encanto, con uno de los personajes femeninos más carismáticos, íntegros y exquisitos de la narrativa jamesiana.

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  • Abada Editores Cartas desde Venecia

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    Book SynopsisEn este libro se presenta el itinerario vital, estético y emocional recorrido por Henry James desde su llegada como turista al hotel Barbesi con 26 años hasta la partida casi cuarenta años más tarde. Con toda su belleza expresiva, la elegancia de las ideas y el inconfundible estilo de oraciones que se alargan engarzándose con un débil hilo de guiones, el lector sucumbe al hechizo veneciano que centellea en la correspondencia.

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  • Eneida Editorial S.L. Historia de un año

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    Book SynopsisEncuadernación: RústicaColección: Confabulaciones

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  • Casimiro Libros Florencia

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  • Alianza Editorial Otra vuelta de tuerca

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    Book SynopsisPerfecta en su sencillez, ?Otra vuelta de tuerca? no es sólo es una de las historias de fantasmas más célebres y leídas desde que se publicara en 1898, sino uno de los mejores relatos de la historia de la literatura. Sin embargo, el motivo de este favor unánime y continuado reside no tanto en la anécdota que le sirve de base, sino en la suprema habilidad con que Henry James (1843-1916), sirviéndose de un equilibrio perfecto entre lo que se dice, lo que no se dice y lo que se sugiere, levanta de la nada una historia que va dejando al lector sin asideros y creando en él el horror más inquietante: aquel que va dentro del ser humano y lo acompaña desde el origen de los tiempos.Traducción de José Luis López Muñoz

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  • La madona del futuro y otros relatos sobre

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    Book SynopsisEsta antología reúne cinco relatos de Henry James dedicados a artistas: "La madona del futuro", "El mentiroso", "Lo auténtico", "La pátina del tiempo" y "El holbein de Beldonald". En ellos, su autor examina con detenimiento, perspicacia y un estilo inimitable la figura del creador, así como el conflicto entre artista y sociedad, que, en sus propias palabras, se contaba entre "la media docena de grandes motivos básicos" de la literatura.

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  • Páginas de Espuma SL El punto de vista

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  • Alba Editorial El eco

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    Book SynopsisBueno, intento darle a la gente lo que quiere. Es un trabajo duro. Lo que quiere la gente es justo lo que no se cuenta, y yo voy a contarlo. Así define George Flack ?representante de la prensa, la gran institución de nuestro tiempo? su profesión, y el papel que está determinado a desempeñar en ella. Frente a Flack, un elocuente cazador de lo que hoy llamaríamos noticias del corazón, se alza un cuadro internacional típicamente jamesiano: un rico viudo norteamericano alojado en un hotel de París con sus dos hijas, una de ellas prometida a un joven de una familia también norteamericana, pero ya tan afrancesada que el sentido de la familia no era entre ellos una tiranía sino una religión.

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  • Alba Editorial Las alas de la paloma

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    Book SynopsisLas alas de la paloma es la cúspide de la prosa de James. Louis AuchinclossKate Croy, una joven londinense, cree que a los veinticinco años es ya tarde para recapacitar. Huérfana de madre, con una hermana viuda, pobre y cargada de hijos, y un padre proscrito y siniestro, queda bajo la tutela de una tía rica, que espera casarla con un buen partido. aunque sabe que ella está enamorada de Merton Densher, un periodista apuesto y encantador esa sabandija miserable, según el padre pero sin la menor perspectiva de futuro. La hermosa Kate, en esta encrucijada, apenas cuenta, como dice su enamorado, con su talento para la vida y no dudará en aprovechar cualquier oportunidad. La aparición de una riquísima paloma norteamericana, Milly Theale, que en tres semanas se convierte en la figura más solicitada de la buena sociedad, inspirará no solo la curiosidad y la adulación de todo Londres sino también los planes e intereses más diversos. incluido, quizá, alguno de Kate. Las alas de la paloma (190

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  • Retrato de una dama  The Portrait of a Lady

    Penguin Clsicos Retrato de una dama The Portrait of a Lady

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  • Otra vuelta de tuerca / The Turn of the Screw

    Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Otra vuelta de tuerca / The Turn of the Screw

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  • Navona Editorial La Confesion de Guest

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  • Periférica El comienzo de la madurez

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    Book SynopsisUn bellísimo texto autobiográfico de Henry James sobre el fin de su juventudy el comienzo de su vida en Europa. Un retrato perfecto de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX.

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  • Editorial Funambulista S.L. Diario de un hombre de cincuenta de aos

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    Book SynopsisEsta obra de Henry James inédita en español, escrita en 1880 entre Daisy Miller y Retrato de una dama, es una deliciosa nouvelle que contiene todos los elementos de misterio, ambigüedad e ironía tan característicos del universo de James, que utilizaba los relatos y las novelas cortas como auténtico taller para sus novelas o aun como modelos para éstas.Bajo la forma de un diario personal, un quincuagenario de viaje por Florencia anota los episodios de un acontecimiento extraordinario para él: acaba de conocer a la hija de la que fue su amor de juventud casi treinta años antes, y a su pretendiente, un joven inglés, e intuye en esta relación la exacta repetición de su propia historia sentimental. Historia que él había resuelto con una dolorosa ruptura, y en la analogía que ahora establece se empeña en proteger a su alter ego del peligro que lo acecha.Logrará el narrador su propósito? Producen las mismas causas los mismos efectos?Tiene sentido proyectar nuestra propia vida en la de l

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  • Defausta Editorial La familia al completo una novela a doce manos

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  • Koxka bat estuago

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  • Editorial Funambulista S.L. Cuatro encuentros

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    Book SynopsisPublicada en 1877, esta irónica nouvelle es un modelo del género. El mismo Henry James así lo indicaba en sus cuadernos: La concisión de Cuatro encuentros (.) eso es hacia lo que debo tender!. La historia de la señorita Spencer, cuyo sueño es viajar a Europa y lo consigue, y cómo se resuelve su regreso a Estados Unidos constituye una metáfora de muchas de las aspiraciones humanas. El retrato de la protagonista está subordinado a la perturbadora seducción que ejercen sobre el lector el carácter ilusorio de su obsesión y el posterior misterio de la renuncia.Sabido es que James utilizaba sus relatos como laboratorio para su producción novelesca, y aquí un sutil juego de claroscuros recorre la obra, haciéndonos pasar de la luminosidad inicial a la oscuridad final, que mucho nos recuerda los finales de dos grandes novelas del autor, Washigton Square y Retrato de una dama.

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  • Siruela Otra vuelta de tuerca

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  • Cambridge University Press The Portrait of a Lady

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  • Cambridge University Press The Sacred Fount

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  • Cambridge University Press The Prefaces

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

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    Book SynopsisHenry James was a leading commentator on the art of his time. Readers of this complete collection of his nonfictional writing on art will gain fresh insights not only into British, American and French art, but also into James's fiction and critical thinking.Trade Review'Collister's thoughtful and thorough editions bring that intelligence back into focus, and remind us again that James' fiction is grounded in a deep understanding of human culture in all its forms.' Hazel Hutchison, Modern Language ReviewTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Acknowledgments; A note on James's texts; Chronology: Henry James's life and writings; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Henry James's writings on art; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Textual variants; Biographical notes on artists; Select bibliography.

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  • The Portrait of a Lady Penguin Vitae

    Penguin Putnam Inc The Portrait of a Lady Penguin Vitae

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    Book SynopsisHenry James's beloved masterpiece, now in a beautiful hardcover edition featuring James's groundbreaking essay The Art of Fiction, with a foreword by acclaimed novelist Brandon Taylor A Penguin Vitae EditionThe Portrait of a Lady is regarded by many as Henry James's finest work, and a lucid tragedy exploring the distance between money and happiness. When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond. Charming and cultivated, Osmond sees Isabel as a rich prize waiting to be taken. Beneath his veneer of civilized behavior, Isabel discovers cruelty and a stifling darkness. In this portrait of a young woman affronting her destiny, Henry James create

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  • Collected Stories of Henry James

    Random House USA Inc Collected Stories of Henry James

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  • Tales of Henry James

    WW Norton & Co Tales of Henry James

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    Book SynopsisNine of James’s most important tales, including (new to the second edition) "In the Cage," a tale that engages James’s complicated attitudes toward gender, class, and the rise of information technology.

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  • The Turn Of The Screw

    Penguin Putnam Inc The Turn Of The Screw

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  • The Portrait of a Lady

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Portrait of a Lady

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  • The Golden Bowl Everymans Library Classics

    Random House USA Inc The Golden Bowl Everymans Library Classics

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    Book SynopsisThe wealthy American widower Adam Verver and his shy daughter, Maggie, live in Europe, closely tied through their love of art and their mutual admiration.  Maggie's future seems assured when she becomes the wife of a charming, though impoverished, Italian prince. But when Adam marries his daughter's friend Charlotte Stant, unaware that she is the prince's mistress, the stage is set for a complex and indirect battle between the two wives. The brilliant Charlotte is determined to keep her lover, while Maggie is determined to protect her beloved father from any knoweldge of their shared betrayal.  The acuity with which Henry James calibrates the four characters' delicately shifting alliances and documents the maturation of a naïve young woman marks this as a magnificent achievement. The Golden Bowl was not only James's last major work but also the novel in which his unparalleled gift for psychological drama reached its height.Introduction by Deni

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  • The Awkward Age Everymans Library Classics

    Random House USA Inc The Awkward Age Everymans Library Classics

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    Book SynopsisHenry James had arrived at such mastery of the forms and uses of fiction by the time he published The Awkward Age in 1899 that this story of a young girl introduced into a casually corrupt circle of sophisticates is at once a universal drama of innocence confronting evil, a detailed examination of a social order, and a stunning picture of a civilization in crisis. On the verge of what was to be his greatest period of creativity, James produced, in The Awkward Age, one of the finest, most rounded, and, in some ways, most intimate and revealing of his long string of masterpieces.Introduction by Cynthia Ozick

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  • The Wings of the Dove

    Random House USA Inc The Wings of the Dove

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    Book SynopsisOf the three late masterpieces that crown the extraordinary literary achievement of Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902) is at once the most personal and the most elemental. James drew on the memory of a beloved cousin who died young to create one of the three central characters, Milly Theale, an heiress with a short time to live and a passion for experiencing life to its fullest. To the creation of the other two, Merton Densher and the magnificent, predatory Kate Croy, who conspire in an act of deceit and betrayal, he brought a lifetime's distilled wisdom about the frailty of the human soul when it is trapped in the depths of need and desire. And he brought to the drama that unites these three characters, in the drawing rooms of London and on the storm-lit piazzas of Venice, a starkness and classical purity almost unprecedented in his work.Under its brilliant, coruscating surfaces, beyond the scrim of its marvelous rhetorical and psychological devices, <

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  • The Wings of the Dove

    Random House USA Inc The Wings of the Dove

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    Book SynopsisSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeSet amid the splendor of London drawing rooms and gilded Venetian palazzos, The Wings of the Dove is the story of Milly Theale, a naïve, doomed American heiress, and a pair of lovers, Kate Croy and Merton Densher, who conspire to obtain her fortune. In this witty tragedy of treachery, self-deception, and betrayal, Henry James weaves together three ill-fated and wholly human destinies unexpectedly linked by desire, greed, and salvation. As Amy Bloom writes in her Introduction, “The Wings of the Dove is a novel of intimacy. . . . [James] gives us passion, he gives us love in its terrible and enchanting forms.”

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  • The Other House 12 New York Review Books

    The New York Review of Books, Inc The Other House 12 New York Review Books

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    Book SynopsisThis terse and startling novel, written just before The Spoils of Poynton and What Maisie Knew,is the story of a struggle for possession—and of its devastating consequences. Three women seek to secure the affections of one man, while he, in turn, tries to satisfy them all. But in the middle of this contest of wills stands his unwitting and vulnerable young daughter. The savage conclusion of The Other House makes it one of the most disturbing and memorable of Henry James's depictions of the uncontrollable passions that lie beneath the polished veneer of civilized life.Oh blest Other House, which gives me thus at every step a precedent, a divine little light to walk by... —Henry James

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