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Dodo Classics brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘Confidence’.   Confidence is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in Scribner's Monthly in 1879 and then as a book later the same year. This light and somewhat awkward comedy centers on artist Bernie Longueville,...

The Adelphi was an English literary journal founded by John Middleton Murry and published between 1922 and 1955. Noted contributors included Katherine Mansfield, D. H. Lawrence, H. E Bates, and Henry Williamson. For a brief period – three issues only, beginning with the October-December 1948 issue...

Dodo Classics brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘Glasses.’   This was a little person whom I would have made a high bid for a good chance to paint. The head, the features, the color, the whole facial oval and radiance had a wonderful purity; the deep grey eyes -- the...

Dodo Classics brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘The Real Thing and Other Tales.’   This story, often read as a parable, plays with the reality-illusion dichotomy that fascinated James, especially in the later stages of his career. For the illustrator who narrates the...

Nobody knows mystery like April Henry. For the first time, the New York Times-bestselling author's mysteries for young adults are all in one place. Included in this collection: Girl, Stolen: Cheyenne, a blind sixteen year-old, is kidnapped and held for ransom; she must outwit her captors...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘The Middle Years’.   It may be the most affecting and profound of James's stories about writers. The novelist in the tale speculates that he has spent his whole life learning how to write, so a second life would make...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from James Henry, ‘The Madonna of the Future.’   We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece -- the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched the high level...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘In the Cage’.   This long story centers on an unnamed London telegrapher. She deciphers clues to her clients' personal lives from the often cryptic telegrams they submit to her as she sits in the "cage" at...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from James Henry, ‘Pandora.’   James explored consciousness and perception from the point of view of a character within a tale. Pandora begins, "The process of inquiry had already begun for him, in spite of his having as yet spoken...

Dodo Classics brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘Views and Reviews.’ “When you lay down a proposition which is forthwith controverted, it is of course optional with you to take up the cudgels in its defence. If you are deeply convinced of its truth, you will perhaps be content...

Dodo Collections brings you another classic from James Henry, ‘The Chaperon.’   “An old lady, in a high drawing-room, had had her chair moved close to the fire, where she sat knitting and warming her knees.  She was dressed in deep mourning; her face had a faded nobleness, tempered,...

Dodo Classics brings you another classic from Henry James, ‘Four Meetings.’ My relative, as it proved, was not sufficiently restored to leave the place by the afternoon train; so that as the autumn dusk began to fall I found myself at liberty to call at the establishment named to me by...

The president who served the shortest term—just a single month—but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking America's highest office William Henry Harrison died just thirty-one days after taking the oath of office in 1841. Today he is a curiosity in American...

In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war....