A young governess is employed to look after two orphaned siblings in a grand country house. Isolated and inexperienced, she’s at first charmed by the children but gradually she suspects that they may
For himself, beyond doubt, the thing we were all so blank about was vividly there. It was something, I guessed, in the primal plan, something like a complex figure in a Persian carpet. He highly appro
Henry James was a renowned observer of European culture, in both his fiction and in his life. In particular, he loved Italy, visiting it 14 times during his lifetime and setting several of his novels
Henry James left America for England in 1876 and remained in his adopted country for the next three decades. Arriving in Liverpool, he made his way first to London, the “dreadful, delightful city” tha
This volume contains two acclaimed short works by the great American writer Henry James (1843-1916). His famous novella The Turn of the Screw, concerning the governess of two small children, brilliant
One of Henry James’s most mesmerizing and unusual novels, The Sacred Fount (1901) has for its scene a weekend party at the great English country house Newmarch. Here James leads the reader down a biza
Henry James conceived the character of Hyacinth Robinson?his 'little presumptuous adventurer with his combination of intrinsic fineness and fortuitous adversity'?while walking the streets of London.
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