James Henry: 1258 books

James’ plays The Album and The Reprobate were never produced, so he published them in book form in 1895 as the second volume of his Theatricals (1894-5). The Album, which turns on the inheritance of a country house outside London, includes an heir, a long-missing potential rival, and three women...

First published in 1903 as part of the collection called The Better Sort, The Beast in the Jungle is a short novella about John Marcher who has a strong foreboding that his life will be defined by one single spectacular event. He meets May Bartram, a woman he knew earlier in his life and they decide...

One of James’s forays into the supernatural, The Sense of the Past revolves around Ralph Pendrel, a young American who meets one of his ancestors and namesake from the 18th century in an otherworldly encounter. He ultimately travels back in time to trade places with his predecessor. James began work...

The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited American young girl named Isabel Archer, who "affronts her destiny" and finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. The story was...

Considerada una de las mejores obras de James, Lo que Maisie sabía cuenta la historia de Maisie, una niña que a causa del divorcio de sus padres se ve inmersa en el mundo de los adultos, en el que la ambigüedad, la hipocresía, el engaño y la culpa constituyen el complejo entramado de las relaciones...

Con Principessa Casamassima James risponde alle critiche di indifferenza ai problemi sociali e scarsa coscienza politica che gli furono rivolte. Protagonista del romanzo, pubblicato nel 1886, è Hyacinth Robinson, figlio bastardo di un lord inglese e di una prostituta parigina. Entrato a far parte...

This book is intended to be read with your authorized Bible. The information contained in this book and the other two in this Born on the Battlefield series are designed to open your thought processes and make you see how truly unique and magnificent the Bible truly is and can be in your life. These...

This book is intended to be read with your authorized Bible. The information contained in this book and the other two in this Born on the Battlefield series are designed to open your thought processes and make you see how truly unique and magnificent the Bible truly is and can be in your life. These...

The Beast in the Jungle is one of James' finest short novels touching upon such universal themes as loneliness, fate, love and death. The story can be interpreted as a confession or parable about James' own life. He never married and possibly never experienced a consummated sexual relationship. Although...

 A witty satire on the excesses of bardolatry, the story reflects James's skepticism about the authorship of Shakespeare's plays. Beyond the narrow scholarly issue, the story also shows a typically imaginative Jamesian protagonist inventing an alternative reality in his lecture on the Bard's supposed...

First serialised in Scribners magazine in 1879 and published in full during the same year, Confidence is a light romantic comedy of marriage declined and accepted. The plot centres upon three characters, Bernie Longueville, an artist, Gordy Wright, a scientist, and Angie Vivien without occupation but...

Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection, designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. The Castle of Otranto Vathek The Castle of Wolfenbach Caleb Williams The Mysteries of Udolpho The Italian The Monk Wieland Northanger Abbey Frankenstein...

Around the world, SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems and other real-time process control networks run mission-critical infrastructure--everything from the power grid to water treatment, chemical manufacturing to transportation. These networks are at increasing risk due to the...

In view of the necessary limitations as to the volume's size, I could not hope to represent all periods of American literature adequately, nor was this necessary in order to give examples of the best that has been done in the short story in a humorous vein in American literature. Probably all types of...