Henry James

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. It had occurred to her early that in her position- that of a young person spending, in framed and wired confinement, the life of a guinea-pig or a magpie- she should know a great many persons without their recognising the acquaintance. That made it an emotion...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. It has long been the custom of the North German Lloyd steamers, which convey passengers from Bremen to New York, to anchor for several hours in the pleasant port of Southampton, where their human cargo receives many additions. An intelligent young German,...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The poor young man hesitated and procrastinated: it cost him such an effort to broach the subject of terms, to speak of money to a person who spoke only of feelings and, as it were, of the aristocracy. Yet he was unwilling to take leave, treating his...

"e;The Portrait of a Lady"e; was, like "e;Roderick Hudson,"e; begun in Florence,   during three months spent there in the spring of 1879. Like "e;Roderick"e;   and like "e;The American,"e; it had been designed for publication in "e;The   Atlantic Monthly,"e; where it began to appear in 1880. It differed...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. It was at Homburg, several years ago, before the gaming had been suppressed. The evening was very warm, and all the world was gathered on the terrace of the Kursaal and the esplanade below it to listen to the excellent orchestra; or half the world, rather,...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. I HAD simply, I suppose, a change of heart, and it must have begun when I received my manuscript back from Mr. Pinhorn. Mr. Pinhorn was my chief, as he was called in the office: he had the high mission of bringing the paper up. This was a weekly periodical,...