Henry James

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Henry James - Figure in the Carpet

The story ostensibly concerns a young literary critics who greatly admirs the writer Hugh Vereker. A meeting with Vereker, however, shows him that he – and all other critics – have in fact missed the great point of...

Nicholas Clifford 1 hour 39 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Henry James - Jolly Corner

«The Jolly Corner,» published in 1908, is considered by many to be a ghost story ranking second only to «The Turn of the Screw.» James’s protagonist, Spencer Brydon, is an American of 56, returned to New York after...

Nicholas Clifford 1 hour 35 minutes

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Henry James - Altar of the Dead

A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores how the protagonist tries to keep the remembrance of his dead friends, to save them from being forgotten entirely in the rush of everyday events....

Dorlene Kaplan and 1 more 1 hour 32 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Henry James - Way It Came

Best known under the title «The Friends Of The Friends» and chosen under that title for his classic fantasy anthology «Black Water» by Alberto Manguel as one of the best ghost stories ever written, this «ghost» story...

Tony Addison 1 hour 29 minutes

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Gothic Fiction

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Henry James - Owen Wingrave

A young man of good family with a long distinguished military tradition indicates that he will not follow his ancestors' path into the army. Dire results ensue. Benjamin Britten in 1970 wrote an opera based on this...

David Wales 1 hour 29 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Henry James - Last of the Valerii

An unnamed American painter resident in Rome serves as narrator in this story, watching as his god-daughter Martha, becomes the wife of Prince Marco Valerio. The young bride is eager to use some of her American...

Nicholas Clifford 1 hour 15 minutes

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Horror & Supernatural Fiction

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Henry James - Sir Edmund Orme

Henry James wrote a number of ghost stories — The Turn of the Screw being the most famous. Did he believe in ghosts himself, as did many of his contemporaries? It's generally possible to find earthly interpretations,...

Nicholas Clifford 1 hour 8 minutes

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Henry James - Real Thing

The Real Thing is, on one level, a somewhat ironic tale of an artist and two rather particular models. Yet it also raises questions about the relationship between the notion of reality in our humdrum world, and the...

Nicholas Clifford 1 hour 4 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Henry James - Third Person

The Third Person is an amusing spoof on spooking. The 'ghostly man about the house' in whom two increasingly competitive maiden ladies come to take a proprietary interest is as unlikely to inspire terror as the wraith...

Anthony Orr 1 hour 2 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Henry James - Collaboration

It is Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War (1870--Germany won--the French Second Republic collapsed--France embittered). A French poet and a German composer come to admire one another's work and decide to...

David Wales 57 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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