Henry James

The greater the windbag the greater the calamity.Henry James examines one of his favorite topicsthe artist's place in societyby profiling a ';genius' who just can't seem to support  himself. A dazzling intellectual and brilliant speaker, Mr. Saltram has become the most sought-after houseguest in England. But, as...

"e;You know as well as you sit there that you'd put a pistol-ball into your brain if you had written my books!"e;Exemplifying Henry James's famous belief that "e;Art makes life,"e; The Lesson of the Master is a piercing study of the life that art makes. When the tale's protagonista gifted young writermeets and...

This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition brings together one of literature's most famous ghost stories and one of Henry James's most unusual novellas. In The Turn of the Screw, a governess is haunted by ghosts from her young charges past; Virginia Woolf said of this masterpiece of psychological ambiguity and suggestion, We are afraid of...

(A Modern Library E-Book)Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all timeNeither Edith Wharton nor E. M. Forster admired it, but Louis Auchincloss calls The Wings of the Dove 'perhaps the greatest of Henry James's novels.' Published in 1902, the novel represented something of a comeback for James, whose only...

Originally published in The Cornhill Magazine in 1878 and in book form in 1879, Daisy Miller brought Henry James his first widespread commercial and critical success. The young Daisy Miller, an American on holiday with her mother on the shores of Switzerlands Lac Leman, is one of Jamess most vivid and tragic characters. Daisys friendship with an...

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