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La malheureuse héroïne de cette histoire, Catherine Sloper, est une jeune héritière, ni très jolie, ni très intelligente, mais possédant un coeur généreux et aimant, qui vit dans une grande demeure bourgeoise à New-York, avec son père, un médecin réputé, riche et mondain, et une tante...

Confidence, one of Henry James’s early and lesser-known novels, is the charming story of a pair of American expatriates—an artist and a scientist—traveling through the great cities of Europe. Romantic complications ensue when the two old friends encounter two very different women on their travels, proposals and rejections follow, but all ends happily for everyone.

This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. "The American" is Henry James novel about American businessman and civil war veteran Christopher Newman, a man who has found early fortune in business and having retired decides to take a tour of Europe. There he meets...

Dig into this meaty novella from the master of nineteenth-century literary realism, Henry James. In The Lesson of the Master, a tension-filled love triangle between a famous writer, a writer who is just beginning his career, and a woman who fancies them both ends in either tragedy or triumph -- depending on one's perspective.

Sharing a title with one of his own short stories, The Middle Years is the uncompleted third volume of memoirs from the American master of literary realism Henry James. He had previously published A Small Boy, about his childhood, and Notes of a Son and Brother, about his youth and young adulthood, but ultimately was unable to finish The Middle Years before his death in 1916.

Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne, a compatriot of hers with much more sophistication. His pursuit of her is hampered by her own flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates they meet...

An abiding interest in the differences and similarities between American and European culture underlies much of Henry James' fiction, and that theme is also present throughout this collection of essays, many of which address various battles of World War I.

Henry James was born on 15 April 1843 and is regarded as one of the great literary figures of 19th Century writing. Born in New York, he moved between there and Europe, being tutored in Geneva, London, Paris, Bologna, and Bonn. At the age of 19 he briefly attended Harvard Law School, but preferred reading...

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The Tragic Muse is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1889-1890 and then as a book in 1890. This wide, cheerful panorama of English life follows the fortunes of two would-be artists: Nick Dormer, who throws over a political career in his efforts to become...

A collection of writings about Italy by the great American author, Henry James, first published in 1909.

A short novel by Henry James about a newspaper called the Reverberator, and the scandals that ensue following its publication of stories about a French Family.

The stories in this collection were written mostly between 1888 and 1897, a time when Henry James’s writing was concerned with the art of fiction and the position of the artist in society. The motif and title story, ‘The Figure in the Carpet’, is an inspired joke, a masterpiece of double-entendre...

one of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous short stories and novels.