Author
Henry James (1843–1916) is represented here by 25 public-domain titles, including A London Life, and Other Tales, A Passionate Pilgrim, and A Small Boy and Others. This page is a shelf list: the books are read on Open Library, not stored here.
by Henry James
The American is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman, an essentially good-hearted but rather gauche American businessman on his first tour of Europe.
by Henry James
The Europeans is a comedy contrasting the behaviour and attitudes of two visitors from Europe with those of their relatives living in the "New" World of New England. The Europeans first appeared as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly for July–October.
by Henry James
One of James's best-known and most acclaimed longer tales, The Aspern Papers is based on the letters Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote to Mary Shelley's stepsister, Claire Clairmont, who saved them until she died. Set in Venice, The Aspern Papers demonstrates James's ability to generate suspense while never neglecting the development of his characters.
by Henry James
The Ambassadors is a dark comedy which follows the trip of protagonist Lewis Lambert Strether to Paris, France to bring Chad Newsome, the son of his widowed fiancée, Mrs Newsome, back to the family business. The Ambassadors is written in the third-person, from Strether's point of view.
by Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady is one of James's most popular novels and is regarded by critics as one of his finest. The Portrait of a Lady recounts a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who, "affronting her destiny," finds it overwhelming.
by Henry James
Italian Hours collected essays that James had written over nearly forty years about a country he knew and loved well. James extensively revised and sometimes expanded the essays to create a more consistent whole.
by Henry James
What Maisie Knew recounts Maisie Farange, the sensitive daughter of divorced, irresponsible, narcissistic, vindictive, and vile parents, Beale and Ida Farange. What Maisie Knew stays with the title character from earliest childhood to precocious maturity.
by Henry James
A Passionate Pilgrim was the earliest fiction that James included in the New York Edition of his works. Set in England, the tale shows James' strong interest in the contrast between the Old World and the New.
by Henry James
A Small Boy and Others covers James' earliest years and discusses his intellectually active family, his intermittent schooling, and his first trips to Europe.
by Henry James
The Wings of the Dove recounts Milly Theale, an American heiress stricken with a serious disease, and her effect on the people around her. Some of these people befriend Milly with honourable motives, while others are more self-interested.
by Henry James
English Hours collected various essays James had written on England over a period of more than thirty years, beginning in the 1870s. The essays had originally appeared in such periodicals as The Nation, The Century Magazine, Scribner's Magazine, The Galaxy and Lippincott's Magazine.