Henry James - Libros y biografía

“The Altar of the Dead” was published by Henry James in 1895 in Usa. It is a fable on life and death significance. This book contains a special note on Henry James by Joseph Conrad (Henry James. An appreciation,...

“Italian Hours” is a travel book written by Henry James trough several years of exploration of Italy. James loved very much Venice, Rome, Ravenna and many other Tuscany cities. This collection of his...

“The Beast in the Jungle” was first published in London by Henry James in 1903 by Methuen Publishing in the collection The Better Sort. It’s one of the most famous novella about by Henry James about the...

One of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, “affront her destiny.” James began The Portrait of a Lady without...

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I remember...

QUESTO LIBRO È A LAYOUT FISSO Giro di vite, opera scritta da Henry James nel 1898, è la storia di una giovane insegnante, incaricata da un gentiluomo di occuparsi dell’istruzione dei suoi nipoti, Miles...

The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedycenters on an odd triangle of characters:...

Regarded as one of Henry James' finest works, the short story The Beast in the Jungle centers around protagonist John Marcher and his seemingly bizarre phobia—a pervasive sense of doom that prevents him...

The Turn of the Screw is s ghostly Gothic tale by Henry James. A masterpiece in ambivalence and the uncanny, The Turn of the Screw tells the story of a young woman who is hired as governess to two seemingly...

The Pupil is a short, emotional story of a precocious young boy growing up in a mendacious and dishonorable family. He befriends his tutor, who is the only adult in his life that he can trust. James presents...

Confidence is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in Scribner's Monthly in 1879 and then as a book later the same year. This light and somewhat awkward comedy centers on artist Bernard...

Often considered to be a classic literary guidebook, "A Little Tour in France" was first published in 1884 and is a first person narrative of Henry James's travels through and thoughts on this country....

This was a little person whom I would have made a high bid for a good chance to paint. The head, the features, the color, the whole facial oval and radiance had a wonderful purity; the deep grey eyes...

A collection of novellas and stories by Henry James, each dealing with a certain type of embarrassment. Henry James (1843-1916), was an American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early...

Short story about a love affair, by the prolific American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Henry James, OM, son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the...

This long story centers on an unnamed London telegrapher. She deciphers clues to her clients' personal lives from the often cryptic telegrams they submit to her as she sits in the "cage" at the post office....

Italian Hours is a book of travel writing by Henry James published in 1909. The book collected essays that James had written over nearly forty years about a country he knew and loved well. James extensively...

Nell’elegante dimora nobiliare di campagna di un’Inghilterra di fine Ottocento, il giovane e promettente romanziere Paul Overt fa nel medesimo giorno due decisivi incontri: quello con il celebre e affermato...

Prima traduzione integrale italiana. All’apice della gloria letteraria per il suo ultimo successo teatrale, lo scrittore americano John Berridge incontra a un ricevimento mondano a Parigi una bellissima...

The Pupil is a short, emotional story of a precocious young boy growing up in a mendacious and dishonorable family. He befriends his tutor, who is the only adult in his life that he can trust. James presents...

The Portrait of a Lady is perhaps Henry James' greatest novel. It tells the story of Isabel Archer, a young American heiress who "affronts her destiny". Dealing with one of James' recurrent themes, the...

Publiée en 1898, "Le tour d'écrou" ("The Turn of the Screw") est une longue nouvelle écrite par Henry James, un auteur américain du XIXe siècle.  "Le tour d'écrou" est considèré comme un chef-d'oeuvre...

THE NOVELS Watch and Ward, Roderick Hudson, The American, The Europeans, Confidence, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Reverberator, The Tragic Muse,...

Contents: Pyramus And Thisbe Still Waters A Change of Heart Daisy Miller Tenants Disengaged The Album The Reprobate Guy Domville Summersoft The High Bid The Outcry

Contents: Watch and Ward Roderick Hudson The American The Europeans Confidence Washington Square The Portrait of a Lady The Bostonians The Princess Casamassima The Reverberator The Tragic Muse The Other...

Widely recognized as one of literature's most gripping ghost stories, this classic tale of moral degradation concerns the sinister transformation of two innocent children into flagrant liars and hypocrites....

Prima traduzione italiana. Un piccolo, sottile capolavoro di snobismo e di ambiguità. Nel panorama della narrativa breve di Henry James, il racconto qui proposto ha un posto particolare, essendo uno dei...

The Birthplace written by Henry James who was an American author. This book was published in 1922. And now republish in ebook format. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival...

Roderick Hudson is a novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1875 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, it is a bildungsroman that traces the development of the title character, a sculptor. Henry...

This book is a horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine (January 27 – April 16, 1898). In the century following its publication, The Turn of the...