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...Henry James considered The Ambassadors his best, or perhaps his best-wrought, novel. It plays on the great Jamesian theme of the American abroad, who finds himself in an older, and some would say richer, culture that that of ...

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... are seen largely from the point of view of Fleda Vetch, the young woman who, her moral and aesthetic sensibilities tuned perhaps as finely as any of James's protagonists, finds herself caught in the middle. (Summary by Nicholas Clifford)...

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Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an American couple living in Europe in a style not quite matched by their income. Mr. and Mrs. Moreen's main purpose in life, it appears, is to win acceptance in the higher circles of French and Italian society, partly in the hope that Morgan's two elder sisters will be taken off their hands. Morgan, who is highly intelligent, is also precocious and perceptive enough to come to understand his parents' ambitious aimlessness. Something of a crisis develops when the Moreens fail to make good on the salary they've promised Pemberton, and he leaves, needing a steady income. By then, however, the tutor has become sufficiently interested in and attached to his charge to be unwilling to leave Morgan for long, and comes back to join the family when when Morgan's mother tells him the boy has fallen ill. There, however, he finds the family shipwreck that he has feared is now taking place, and he is in time to witness it.(Summary by Nicholas Clifford)...

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...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 u...

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...The Turn of the Screw is a novella written by Henry James. It is a ghost story that was originally published in 1898. A nameless governess reports the events of two ghosts who stalk the young children she has charge over. Is she reliable, or an imaginative neurotic? (Sum...

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...The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some critics have called the major phase of James' career. The Golden Bowl explores the tangle of interrelationships between a f...

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...One of James’s early novels, The American plunges right in to one of the writer’s most enduring subjects, that of the innocent, or at least inexperienced, American abroad, seeking to come to terms with the social customs and convent...

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...Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, it is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet daughter and her brilli...

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When Beale and Ida Farange are divorced, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between them, spending six months of the year with each. The parents are immoral and frivolous, and they use Maisie to intensify their hatred of each other. (Summary by Wikipedia.)...

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. He had a mortal dislike, poor Stransom, to lean anniversaries, and loved them still less when they made a pretence of a figure. Celebrations and suppressions were equally painful to him, and but one of the former found a place in his life. He had kept each year in his own fashion the date of Mary Antrim?s death. It would be more to the point perhaps to say that this occasion kept him: it kept him at least effectually from doing anything else. It took hold of him again and again with a hand of which time had softened but never loosened the touch. He waked to his feast of memory as consciously as he would have waked to his marriage-morn. Marriage had had of old but too little to say to the matter: for the girl who was to have been his bride there had been no bridal embrace. She had died of a malignant fever after the wedding-day had been fixed, and he had lost before fairly tasting it an affection that promised to fill his life to the brim....

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...The Altar of the Dead by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Alter of the... ...ENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Alter of the Dead by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por... ...ATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Alter of the Dead by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Alter of the Dead by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Se- rie... ... as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Alter of the Dead by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Se- ries, Jim... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James The Altar of the Dead by Henry James CHAPTER I H e had a mortal... ...Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James The Altar of the Dead by Henry James CHAPTER I H e had a mortal disli... ...lways called in his thoughts the Others. He spared them the moments, he 5 Henry James organised the charity. Quite how it had risen he probably never... ...called in his thoughts the Others. He spared them the moments, he 5 Henry James organised the charity. Quite how it had risen he probably never could...

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Excerpt: My dear mother--I have kept you posted as far as Tuesday week last, and, although my letter will not have reached you yet, I will begin another before my news accumulates too much. I am glad you show my letters round in the family, for I like them all to know what I am doing, and I can?t write to every one, though I try to answer all reasonable expectations. But there are a great many unreasonable ones, as I suppose you know--not yours, dear mother, for I am bound to say that you never required of me more than was natural. You see you are reaping your reward: I write to you before I write to any one else....

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...A Bundle of Letters by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Bundle of Lett... ... PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Bundle of Letters by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por... ...STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Bundle of Letters by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Bundle of Letters by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series,... ...le as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Bundle of Letters by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim M... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James A Bundle of Letters by Henry James CHAPTER I From Miss Mireanda... ...Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James A Bundle of Letters by Henry James CHAPTER I From Miss Mireanda Mope,... ...erienced no draw- backs whatever. I have made a great many pleasant ac- 5 Henry James quaintances in travelling round (both ladies and gentle- men), ... ...ed no draw- backs whatever. I have made a great many pleasant ac- 5 Henry James quaintances in travelling round (both ladies and gentle- men), and ha...

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. It was in the early days of April; Bernard Longueville had been spending the winter in Rome. He had travelled northward with the consciousness of several social duties that appealed to him from the further side of the Alps, but he was under the charm of the Italian spring, and he made a pretext for lingering....

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...y James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Confidence by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por... ...s A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Confidence by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable ... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Confidence by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series,... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Confidence by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim M... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James Confidence by Henry James CHAPTER I I t was in the early days o... ...Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James Confidence by Henry James CHAPTER I I t was in the early days of Apri... ...she might gather up the crumbs of the feast. Longueville, every morning 5 Henry James after breakfast, took a turn in the great square of Siena— the ... ...ght gather up the crumbs of the feast. Longueville, every morning 5 Henry James after breakfast, took a turn in the great square of Siena— the vast p... ...other, pre- sumably—was in the church. The two ladies had been in 7 Henry James the church when he arrived; women liked to sit in churches; they had ...