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The Ambassadors
Henry James and Christopher Butler (ed.)
Lambert 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 ...
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The American
Henry James and Adrian Poole (ed.)
‘You you a nun; you with your beauty defaced and your nature wasted you behind locks and bars! Never, never, if I can prevent it!’ A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe ...
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The Aspern Papers and Other Stories
Henry James and Adrian Poole (ed.)
There's no baseness I wouldn't commit for Jeffrey Aspern's sake.’ The poet Aspern, long since dead, has left behind some private papers. They are jealously guarded by an old lady, once his ...
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The Bostonians
Henry James and R. D. Gooder (ed.)
The 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 ...
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Daisy Miller and An International Episode
Henry James and Adrian Poole (ed.)
An inscrutable combination of audacity and innocence’ ... Young Daisy Miller perplexes, amuses, and charms her stiff but susceptible fellow-American, Frederick Winterbourne. Is she innocent ...
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Daisy Miller and Other Stories
Henry James and Jean Gooder (ed.)
This volume includes “Daisy Miller”, “Pandora”, “The Patagonia”, and “Four Meetings”.
The Europeans: A Sketch
Henry James and Ian Campbell Ross
Eugenia, Baroness Mnster, wife of a German princeling who wishes to be rid of her, crosses the ocean with her brother Felix to seek out their American relatives. Their voyage is prompted, ...
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The Golden Bowl
Henry James and Virginia Llewellyn Smith (ed.)
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A rich American art-collector and his daughter Maggie buy in for themselves and to their greater glory a beautiful young wife and a noble husband. ...
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The Portrait of a Lady
Henry James and Roger Luckhurst (ed.)
‘One ought to choose something very deliberately, and be faithful to that.’ Isabel Archer is a young, intelligent, and spirited American girl, determined to relish her first experience of ...
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The Spoils of Poynton
Henry James and Bernard Richards (ed.)
Mrs Gareth, widowed chatelaine of Poynton, is fighting to keep her house with its priceless objets d’art from her son Owen and his lovely, utterly philistine fiancée. When she discovers ...
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The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
Henry James and T. J. Lustig (ed.)
A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man ...
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Washington Square
Henry James and Adrian Poole (ed.)
‘She will do as I have bidden her.’ Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and the social eminence associated with Washington Square. She attracts the attention of a good-looking but ...
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What Maisie Knew (2 ed.)
Henry James and Adrian Poole (ed.)
What Maisie Knew (1897) represents one of James's finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge, and the question of their finality. The child of violently divorced ...
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The Wings of the Dove
Henry James and Peter Brooks (ed.)
The vivacious Kate Croy seems to face a stark choice; to marry Merton Densher, the impoverished journalist she loves, and thereby break with her family, or to marry lovelessly but well and ...
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