Henry James: 88 books

Major Rupert Stonely came home after a dubious career selling surplus army equipment. Unfortunately, the army didn’t know that. He had also expected to inherit his late mother’s estate; she, it seemed, had other ideas. Rupert was about to be usurped by a glorified-waiter and he, quite literally,...

Moving from the slums of Tar Pit Terrace to the bungalows of Bay Tree Crescent, was a social wrench for both Edward Monkjack and his wife Janet. Here the roads were lined with trees rather than dead dogs. It had been the awkward and somewhat embarrassing demise of Edward's in-laws, that provided...

It wanted an hour or two of sunset on a lovely evening in the latter part of September, when a single horseman might have been seen making his way to the westward, across the high dry prairie land, which lies between the upper portion of the river Nueces and the Bravo del Norte.