Henry James

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Literary Fiction

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Henry James - London Life

A devoted sister attempts to check her sibling's scandalous behavior in the world of British high society. A delightful comedy of Anglo-American manners and a fascinating glimpse of late Victorian London. Summary by...

Deborah Percy 5 hours 22 minutes

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Published 1800 -1900

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Henry James - Liar

A successful painter reconnects with the woman he once loved during a visit to an English country house. His surprise is great when he learns that her husband is susceptible to a very peculiar habit. — Summary by...

Deborah Percy 2 hours 29 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 - Princess Casamassima

Princess Casamassima can be read on several levels: first, as a political and social novel, exploring the anarchistic and revolutionary underground of London in the 1880s; secondly as a psychological study of such a...

Nicholas Clifford 21 hours 34 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Henry James - Lord Beaupre

What is a young man to do, when because of his pleasant disposition, and (of course) his considerable wealth, he finds himself besieged by bevies of eligible young women, some beautiful, some less so (some, even, his...

Nicholas Clifford 2 hours 13 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Henry James - Awkward Age

Nanda Brookenham is coming of age, and thus 'coming out' in London society — which leads to complications in her family's social set in London's fin de siècle life. James presents the novel almost entirely in...

Anna Simon 15 hours 16 minutes

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Literary Fiction

Henry James - Portrait of a Lady (version 2)

The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 and then as a book in 1881. It is one of James's most popular long novels, and...

Elizabeth Klett 23 hours 6 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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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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General Fiction

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Henry James - Wheel Of Time

Fanny Knocker is a very, very plain young woman. She is introduced to the extremely handsome, thoroughly impoverished, younger son of an old family. What will transpire? (David Wales)

David Wales 1 hour 56 minutes

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Literary Fiction

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Henry James - Lady Barbarina

Rich and beautiful American girls heading to England to find themselves noble titles through marriage, and using their New World wealth to prop up the waning strength of the aristocracy, was almost a staple of late...

Nicholas Clifford 3 hours 53 minutes

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Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts (version 2 dramatic reading)

Dramatic Readings

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Henry James - Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts (version 2 dramatic reading)

Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James first appearing in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1879, and in book form the following year. It portrays the courtship of the beautiful American girl Daisy Miller by...

2 hours 15 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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