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English Hours

By: England/James, Henry

Price: $7.00

Publisher: GROVE ATLANTIC: April 2014

Seller ID: 112323

ISBN: 1555843751

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Philosophy of Henry James, Sr.

By: James, Henry

Price: $7.50

Seller ID: 411595

ISBN: 81194507

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Turn of the Screw (Norton Critical Edition)

By: James, Henry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: W W NORTON & CO: May 2012

Edition: 2

Seller ID: 437262

ISBN: 039395904X

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Contexts includes twenty-six selections, from James's letters, notebooks, and other writings during the period 1863-1908, centering on the ghost story, the supernatural and, in particular, "my little book," The Turn of the Screw. Also reproduced are four paintings by Charles Demuth. The essays in Criticism span one hundred years, providing a rich array of perspectives on James and his story. Representing contemporary reactions are pieces by Henry Harland, John D. Barry, Oliver Elton, William Lyon Phelps, and Virginia Woolf. The section also includes landmark criticism by Harold Goddard, Edna K...
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Washington Square (Heritage Press)

By: James, Henry

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Heritage Press: January 1971

Seller ID: 480646

ISBN: B07K5KYZKN

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Portrait of A Lady by Henry James, Illustrations by Colleen Browning, Introduction by R. W. Stallman (The Heritage Press) In Slip Case with Sandglass The Heritage Club Brochure Number I:32 - 1967 Edition

By: James, Henry

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The Heritage Press: January 1967

Seller ID: 483106

ISBN: B0049JNZGY

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Portrait of a Lady

By: James, Henry

Price: $2.50

Publisher: SIGNET CLASSICS: June 2011

Seller ID: 483563

ISBN: 0451530527

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Portrait of a Lady is Henry James's classic novel featuring the strong and spirited Isabel Archer, the embodiment of women's independence and strength.

The heroine of this powerful novel, often considered James's greatest work, is the vivacious young American Isabel Archer. Blessed by nature and fortune, she journeys to Europe to seek the full realization of her potential--or in modern terms, "to find herself"--but what awaits her there may prove to be her undoing.

During her journey, wooers vie for her attentions, including an English aristocrat, a perfect Ame...
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Turn of the Screw and In the Cage

By: James, Henry

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Publisher: MODERN LIB: October 2009

Seller ID: 46660

ISBN: 0375757406

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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 something unnamed, of something, perhaps, in ourselves...Henry James...can still make us afraid of the dark.

In his rarely anthologized novella In the Cage, James brings his incomparable powers of observation to the story of a clever, re...
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What Maisie Knew

By: James, Henry

Price: $6.00

Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP: November 2013

Seller ID: 258973

ISBN: 0143124633

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The inspiration for a new film starring Julianne Moore, Alexander Skarsgard, Steve Coogan, and Onata Aprile
After her parents bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each other. Maisie solitary, observant, and wise beyond her years is drawn into an increasingly entangled adult world of intrigue and sexual betrayal until she is finally compelled to choose her own future. Published in 1897 as Henry James was experimenting with narrative technique and fascinated by the idea of the child...
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Washington Square

By: James, Henry

Price: $5.00

Publisher: MODERN LIB: April 2015

Seller ID: 297861

ISBN: 0375761225

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Washington Square follows the coming-of-age of its plain-faced, kindhearted heroine, Catherine Sloper. Much to her father's vexation, a handsome opportunist named Morris Townsend woos the long-suffering heiress, intent on claiming her fortune. When Catherine stubbornly refuses to call off her engagement, Dr. Sloper forces Catherine to choose between her inheritance and the only man she will ever truly love. Cynthia Ozick, in her Introduction to what she calls Henry James's "most American fiction," writes that "every line, every paragraph, every chapter of Washington Square] is a...
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Daisy Miller and Other Stories

By: James, Henry

Price: $3.00

Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR:

Seller ID: 343359

ISBN: 0192835432

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The tale of Daisy's irruption into staid European society enjoyed, as did Daisy herself, a succes de scandale; and it has remained one of Jamess most popular short stories. Like the others collected here--'Pandora, ' 'The Patagonia, ' and 'Four Meetings'-- it describes a confrontation between different values in a changing world. Is the new independent American girl enchanting in her spontaneity, alarming in her unpredictability, or merely vulnerable in her ignorance of social codes? Hung about with make admirers who seek, uncertainly, to grasp the new phenomenon, Daisy marches on undiscourage...
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Ambassadors

By: James, Henry

Price: $6.00

Publisher: W W NORTON & CO: August 2011

Edition: 2

Seller ID: 380289

ISBN: 0393963144

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

As often as possible, the annotations to the text have been made by referring to James's other writings.

A map of Strether's Paris and a virtually unknown photograph of James, which originally appeared with the serial of The Ambassadors, have been added to this Second Edition, and the original frontispieces to the New York Edition of the novel have been reproduced in their proper sequence for the first time.

"The Author on the Novel" contains James's notebook entries on the inspiration for The Ambassadors as well as the long, remarkable preliminary...
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What Maisie Knew

By: James, Henry

Price: $6.00

Publisher: PENGUIN GROUP:

Seller ID: 410528

ISBN: 0141441372

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A new edition of the innovative, emotionally complex novel.

After her parents' bitter divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled between her selfish mother and vain father, who value her only as a means for provoking each other. Maisie--solitary, observant, and wise beyond her years--is drawn into an increasingly entangled adult world of intrigue and sexual betrayal until she is finally compelled to choose her own future. Published in 1897 as Henry James was experimenting with narrative technique and fascinated by the idea of the child's-eye view, What Maisie Knew i...
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Spoils of Poynton

By: James, Henry

Price: $2.50

Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR:

Seller ID: 411143

ISBN: 0192816055

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Daisy Miller (Penguin Classics)

By: James, Henry

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics: March 1987

Seller ID: 431569

ISBN: 0140432620

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Daisy Miller travels to Europe with her wealthy, commonplace mother and in her innocence and audacity offends convention and seems to compromise her reputation.
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Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels

By: James, Henry

Price: $2.00

Publisher: SIGNET CLASSICS: June 2013

Seller ID: 436184

ISBN: 0451526066

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Daisy Miller

By: James, Henry

Price: $3.00

Publisher: MODERN LIB: November 2014

Seller ID: 443980

ISBN: 0375759662

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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 Switzerland's Lac Leman, is one of James's most vivid and tragic characters. Daisy's friendship with an American gentleman, Mr. Winterbourne, and her subsequent infatuation with a passionate but impoverished Italian bring to life the great Jamesian themes of Americans abroad, innocence versus experience, and the grip of fate. As Elizabet...
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The short stories of Henry James; (The Modern library of the world's best books. Modern library giants)

By: James, Henry

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Modern Library: January 1948

Seller ID: 446020

ISBN: B0006ARNFO

Binding: Hardcover

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The Wings of the Dove (Modern Library)

By: James, Henry

Price: $6.50

Publisher: The Modern Library: January 1946

Seller ID: 446028

ISBN: B00RM3TI7O

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Washington Square

By: James, Henry

Price: $4.50

Publisher: MODERN LIB: April 2015

Seller ID: 446747

ISBN: 0375761225

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Aspern Papers and Other Stories (Oxford World's Classics)

By: James, Henry

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: March 2009

Seller ID: 458284

ISBN: 0199538557

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An American editor with an enthusiasm for the works of Jeffrey Aspern, a romantic poet of the early 19th century, goes to Venice to acquire the letters that Aspern wrote to his mistress, a Miss Bordereau, whom he called "Juliana." Under an assumed name he rents a suite in the ancient palace where she lives in poverty and seclusion with her niece, Miss Tina. He finds that the old lady is shrewd and haughty and accepts him as a lodger only to put aside money for the future of Miss Tina, a timid, unattractive spinster much in awe of her aunt. During his residence with them, the editor wins the fr...
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Author:James, Henry