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Daisy Miller
Daisy Miller is Henry James' examination of the personality and social bearing of a naive young American girl being exposed for the first time to the ...

Portrait of a Lady
Henry James' study of Isabel Archer and her seduction and betrayal by her false friend and husband is simply the finest psychological fiction ever wri...

The Ambassadors
Chad Newsome, a profligate son of a wealthy American family is having relations with an unacceptable woman in France. Lambert Strethers, a trusted ol...

The American
Christopher Newman, a wealthy American, falls in love with a French aristocrat, Claire de Cintre, while visiting Paris. Her family objects very strong...

The Aspern Papers
Another of the prolific Henry James' many masterpieces, The Aspern Papers is set in Venice and is the story of the struggle of a scholar of a poet nam...

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The Beast in the Jungle
In this short novella, James examines the relationship of a man who believes that he is slated by fate for some horrible disastrous thing to happen to...



The Bostonians
This is one book of Henry james' that has been slighted. It is a study of the conflict between a male and female cousin over the place of first standi...

The Turn of the Screw
The Turn of the Screw is one of the finest ghost stories ever written - but of course, since it is by Henry James, it would be. His steady building of...

The Wings of the Dove
Henry James complained that people don't pay close enough attention when reading his books. He may not have realized what he was asking. Not only does...

Washington Square
Washington Square describes the adult life of Catherine Sloper, daughter of a wealthy, intense, intelligent and sarcastic father and a brilliantly bea...

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