James Henry: 1258 books

James' most celebrated short work in which his excellent craftsmanship is apparent through his skilful employment of irony and humour. This poignant book deals with the innate desires and leanings of the central character and the complexity of relationships stemming from conflicting human emotions. Touching!

«Washington Square spiega Franco Cordelli nella sua introduzione è un bellissimo romanzo, un romanzo che precede di alcuni anni i più celebri racconti di Anton ?echov. Un nome sorprendente da accostare a quello di uno scrittore tanto arido come era James, eppure non casuale. In Washington Square...

Roma, Firenze, Venezia – città conosciute e amate da James, e mirabilmente ritratte nel suo Ore italiane – fanno da sfondo alle passioni-ossessioni dei protagonisti di questi racconti, offrendo la forza simbolica dei loro monumenti e delle loro suggestioni. La condanna di Daisy Miller si consuma...

A London Life is one of James’s longest tales, in fact it falls into the category which he labelled the nouvelle. It seems that in writing it the author’s attitude to his heroine gradually became more critical and in the finished text a number of the other characters try to make Laura Wing realize...

Italian Hours ends with the phrase, "the luxury of loving Italy," and everything in the book indicates that James enjoyed this luxury to the fullest. But he was by no means a blind lover. His opening essay on Venice, for instance, doesn't gloss over the sad conditions of life for the city's...

Originally published by Scribners in 1901, The Sacred Fount was a product of James' most productive period and continues with the author's concentration of character over plot. The essence of the novel is an unnamed narrator who is not omniscient – he is involved in the actions of the other characters...

This brilliant satire of the women’s rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter struggle between two distant cousins who seek to control her. Will the privileged Boston feminist Olive Chancellor succeed in turning her beloved ward...

Published in book form in 1876, Roderick Hudson was said by James to be his “first attempt at a complex and full-length narrative.” The story follows the complicated relationship between Roderick Hudson, a talented but poor American sculptor, and his patron, the repressed Rowland Mallet, who takes Roderick to Italy to further his art.  It is a revealing portrayal of the demise of an artist.

Unfinished at the time of James’s death in 1916, the Ivory Tower utilizes a classic Jamesian theme—American innocence transformed by European experience. Here, however, there’s a twist: the hero was raised abroad and returns to America with its immense Gilded Age fortunes to discover the corrupting effects of wealth and possessions.

Mark Monteith ha recibido la peor de las noticias: Phil Bloodgood, el hombre que administra sus bienes, un amigo de toda la vida, con el que compartió estudios y placeres, se ha fugado con el dinero y le deja en situación comprometida. Monteith coincide en lugares públicos,...

Gli ambasciatori sono persone fidate che la signora Newsome, ricca possidente di Woollett, cittadina industriale del New England, spedisce a Parigi perché riportino a casa il figlio Chad, sospettato di sprecare il suo tempo in bagordi. Il primo di questi “ambasciatori” è Lambert Strether, cinquantenne...

The Ambassadors is a dark comedy, one of the masterpieces of James's final period. It follows the trip of protagonist Lewis Lambert Strether to Europe in pursuit of Chad, his widowed fiancee's supposedly wayward son; he is to bring the young man back to the family business, but he encounters unexpected complications.

Originally serialised in MacMillan Magazine in 1888 and published in book form later that year, The Reverberator is a short novel about how a piece of scandal published in a popular news sheet reduces a Parisian family to infighting. When Francie Dosson, a kind American girl who possesses little or no...

Considered one of James’s most difficult works, The Sacred Fount centers on a nameless narrator and his obsessive attempts to discern the love relationships between various guests at a weekend getaway in the country, using only their looks and behavior. While readers and critics were equally baffled...