Henry James

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Henry James - Portrait of a Lady (version 3)

Our central character is Isabel Archer of Albany, New York, a young woman of no great means, and no great beauty (that is, by her own estimation; others disagree) yet of rich imagination, high ideals and a thirst for...

Nicholas Clifford 25 hours 5 minutes

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Henry James - Tragic Muse

Art or politics, this is the question Nick Dormer dealls with in the course of this novel. Mirian Ruth, an aspiring actress, is the «tragic muse» of the title. Her concerns are a bit different: would proper society...

shihping and 5 more 23 hours 15 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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Henry James - Golden Bowl

The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the «major phase» of James' career. The Golden Bowl...

Lee Ann Howlett 22 hours 5 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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General Fiction

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Henry James - Wings of the Dove

«The Wings of the Dove,» published in 1902, represents to my memory a very old--if I shouldn't perhaps rather say a very young--motive; I can scarce remember the time when the situation on which this long-drawn...

Aaron Elliott and 12 more 20 hours 11 minutes

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990

Henry James - Bostonians, Vol. 1 & 2

This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chancellor, Ransom's cousin and a Boston feminist; and Verena Tarrant, a pretty,...

Isabelle Brasme and 9 more 16 hours 48 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Henry James - Ambassadors

Henry James considered The Ambassadors his best, or perhaps his best-wrought, novel. It plays on the great Jamesian theme of the American abroad, who finds himself in an older, and some would say richer, culture that...

Nicholas Clifford 16 hours 46 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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General Fiction

833

Henry James - American

One of James’s early novels, The American plunges right in to one of the writer’s most enduring subjects, that of the innocent, or at least inexperienced, American abroad, seeking to come to terms with the social...

Nicholas Clifford 14 hours 1 minute

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General Fiction

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Henry James - Roderick Hudson

Published as a serial in 1875, Roderick Hudson is James's first important novel. The theme of Americans in Europe, so important in much of James's work, is already central to the story. Hudson is a young law student...

Nicholas Clifford 13 hours 21 minutes

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General Fiction

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Henry James - Portrait of a Lady Vol 1

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 1880-1881 and then as a book in 1881. It is the story of a spirited young American...

Clarica and 12 more 12 hours 44 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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