Books published by publisher A Henry James Book

"James’s critical genius comes out most tellingly in his mastery over, his baffling escape from, Ideas; a mastery and an escape which are perhaps the last test of a superior intelligence. He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it… He is the most intelligent man of his generation." —T. S. Eliot"Henry James set up his own kind of fiction as a norm for the novel as a whole..." —Robert Scholes“The Ambassadors”, which Henry James considered his best work, is the most exquisite refinement of his favorite theme: the collision of American innocence with European experience. This time, James recounts the continental journey of Louis Lambert Strether--a fiftysomething man of the world who has been dispatched abroad by a rich widow, Mrs. Newsome. His mission: to save her son Chadwick from the clutches of a wicked (i.e., European) woman, and to convince the prodigal to return to Woollett, Massachusetts. Instead, this all-American envoy finds Europe growing on him. Strether also becomes involved in a very Jamesian “relation” with the fascinating Miss Maria Gostrey, a fellow American and informal Sacajawea to her compatriots. Clearly Paris has “improved” Chad beyond recognition, and convincing him to return to the U.S. is going to be a very, very hard sell. Suspense, of course, is hardly James’s stock-in-trade. But there is no more meticulous mapper of tone and atmosphere, nuance and implication. His hyper-refined characters are at their best in dialogue, particularly when they’re exchanging morsels of gossip. Astute, funny, and relentlessly intelligent, James amply fulfills his own description of the novelist as a person upon whom nothing is lost.

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 brilliant, domineering father. The plot of the novel is based upon a true story told to James by his close friend, British actress Fanny Kemble. The book is often compared to Jane Austen's work for the clarity and grace of its prose and its intense focus on family relationships. James was hardly a great admirer of Jane Austen, so he might not have regarded the comparison as flattering. In fact, James was not a great fan of Washington Square itself. He tried to read it over for inclusion in the New York Edition of his fiction (1907-1909) but found that he couldn't, and the novel was not included. Other readers, though, have sufficiently enjoyed the book to make it one of the more popular works of the Jamesian canon.

One of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, “affront her destiny.” James began The Portrait of a Lady without a plot or subject, only the slim but provocative notion of a young woman taking control of her fate. The result is a richly imagined study of an American heiress who turns away her suitors in an effort to first establish—and then protect—her independence. But Isabel’s pursuit of spiritual freedom collapses when she meets the captivating Gilbert Osmond. “James’s formidable powers of observation, his stance as a kind of bachelor recorder of human doings in which he is not involved,” writes Hortense Calisher, “make him a first-class documentarian, joining him to that great body of storytellers who amass what formal history cannot.”

The Author of “Beltraffio”est une nouvelle d'Henry James, parue dans The English Illustrated Magazine en 1884, et reprise en volume l’année suivante chez Osgood, à Boston, et Macmillan, à Londres.Le narrateur, un admirateur américain du romancier britannique Mark Ambient, plus que ravi par la lecture de Beltraffio, son dernier roman, lui rend visite dans sa demeure du Surrey. Outre le grand homme, il rencontre l’épouse de l’écrivain, son fils de sept ans, Dolcino, et son étrange sœur Gwendolyn. Il apprend, non sans surprise, que Madame Ambient déteste les romans de son mari, qu’elle juge immoraux. Peu après, Dolcino, déjà fragile, tombe gravement malade et, cherchant à soustraire l’enfant à la néfaste influence de son père, la mère supprime la médication du petit malade qui en meurt. En proie aux remords, elle décède elle-même après quelques mois de tourments, car elle s’est sur le tard réconcilié avec les œuvres de son mari et a même lu Beltraffio avec contentement peu avant sa mort.This book contain a dynamic table to access the different parts. the layout is perfect pleasant reading

This was the first collection of James’s tales to appear under a title other than that of the first tale in the volume, apart from the full 14 volume Collective edition in London the previous year. Possibly suggested by the title of Charles Dickens’s novel of the French revolution, A tale of two cities (1859), the three cities invoked are the major scenes of action in the three tales: London (Lady Barberina), New York (Lady Barberina and The impressions of a cousin) and Boston (A New England winter). The foreshadowing of James’s working and publishing ideas of the later 1890s, evident in the specific collection title, is not the only such resonance we can find here, utilizing the benefit of hindsight. All the more surprising then that the three tales in this collection were written for the same outlet and editor, the Century magazine under Richard Gilder. After their appearance at different times in the magazine in 1883 and 1884 it was logical that they appear in a book under the Osgood imprint in Boston – he was publisher of the magazine and a long time supporter of James. As usual at this time the volume was contracted to Macmillan in London for British and colonial publication. Tales of Three Cities is a book that consists of three volumes: The Impressions of a Cousin Lady Barberina A New England Winter. This book contains a dynamic table to access the different parts. Here's an excerpt from the book :"New York, April 3, 1873. There are moments when I feel that she has asked too much of me—especially since our arrival in this country. These three months have not done much toward making me happy here. I don't know what the difference is—or rather I do; and I say this only because it 's less trouble. It is no trouble, however, to say that I like New York less than Rome: that, after all, is the difference. And then there 's nothing to sketch! For ten years I have been sketching, and I really believe I do it very well. But how can I sketch Fifty-third Street? There are times when I even say to myself, How can I even endure Fifty-third Street? When I turn into it from the Fifth Avenue the vista seems too hideous: the narrow, impersonal houses, with the dry, hard tone of their brown-stone, a surface as uninteresting as that of sand-paper; their steep, stiff stoops, giving you such a climb to the door; their lumpish balustrades, porticoes, and cornices, turned out by the hundred and adorned with heavy excrescences—such an eruption of ornament and such a poverty of effect! I suppose my superior tone would seem very pretentious if anybody were to read this shameless record of personal emotion; and I should be asked why an expensive uptown residence is not as good as a slimy Italian palazzo...."

This was the first collection of James’s tales to appear under a title other than that of the first tale in the volume, apart from the full 14 volume Collective edition in London the previous year. Possibly suggested by the title of Charles Dickens’s novel of the French revolution, A tale of two cities (1859), the three cities invoked are the major scenes of action in the three tales: London (Lady Barberina), New York (Lady Barberina and The impressions of a cousin) and Boston (A New England winter). The foreshadowing of James’s working and publishing ideas of the later 1890s, evident in the specific collection title, is not the only such resonance we can find here, utilizing the benefit of hindsight. All the more surprising then that the three tales in this collection were written for the same outlet and editor, the Century magazine under Richard Gilder. After their appearance at different times in the magazine in 1883 and 1884 it was logical that they appear in a book under the Osgood imprint in Boston – he was publisher of the magazine and a long time supporter of James. As usual at this time the volume was contracted to Macmillan in London for British and colonial publication. Tales of Three Cities is a book that has three volumes, A New England Winter is the third and last part. This book contains a dynamic table to access the different parts. Here's an excerpt from the book:"Mrs. Daintry stood on her steps a moment, to address a parting injunction to her little domestic, whom she had induced a few days before, by earnest and friendly argument,—the only coercion or persuasion this enlightened mistress was ever known to use,—to crown her ruffled tresses with a cap; and then, slowly and with deliberation, she descended to the street. As soon as her back was turned, her maidservant closed the door, not with violence, but inaudibly, quickly, and firmly; so that when she reached the bottom of the steps and looked up again at the front,—as she always did before leaving it, to assure herself that everything was well,—the folded wings of her portal were presented to her, smooth and shining, as wings should be, and ornamented with the large silver plate on which the name of her late husband was inscribed,—which she had brought with her when, taking the inevitable course of good Bostonians, she had transferred her household goods from the "hill" to the "new land," and the exhibition of which, as an act of conjugal fidelity, she preferred—how much, those who knew her could easily understand—to the more distinguished modern fashion of suppressing the domiciliary label. She stood still for a minute on the pavement, looking at the closed aperture of her dwelling and asking herself a question; not that there was anything extraordinary in that, for she never spared herself in this respect...''

Can Roger who helps his dad hike kids to a zip line find love and not just deep like? His dad has told him little of his mother and siblings who died when her plane crashed when he was a baby. Was his dad the cause of the crash? An athletic girl he likes and can talk to seems on a different career path. She stays close as she knows they are safe for each other. Safe is not a romantic word. Can love grow as they mature and he learns his past?

What determined the speech that startled him in the course of their encounter scarcely matters, being probably but some words spoken by himself quite without intention-spoken as they lingered and slowly moved together after their renewal of acquaintance. He had been conveyed by friends an hour or two before to the house at which she was staying; the party of visitors at the other house, of whom he was one, and thanks to whom it was his theory, as always, that he was lost in the crowd, had been invited over to luncheon. There had been after luncheon much dispersal, all in the interest of the original motive, a view of Weatherend itself and the fine things, intrinsic features, pictures, heirlooms, treasures of all the arts, that made the place almost famous; and the great rooms were so numerous that guests could wander at their will, hang back from the principal group and in cases where they took such matters with the last seriousness give themselves up to mysterious appreciations and measurements.

The Beast in the Jungle is a novella by Henry James, published in the collection The Better Sort in 1903 in Methuen, London and Scribner's, New York.One of the famous texts of the author, The Beast in the Jungle evokes the crucial decision of any man that will affect his life decisions.John and May Bartram Walk formerly emotional bond that had settled for a rather futile cause. Timid man, Walking refused to engage in marriage, convinced that his life was only suspended because a tragic and painful event, lurking like a "beast in the jungle," was to wipe his happiness and that of all that which should be attached.Ten years later, Mary Bartram, became the owner of a house in London thanks to the legacy of an inheritance, crosses again John Walk. The man has not changed, but she convinces him, not without difficulty, to resume their relationship, this time on a strictly friendly basis. Thus, they see regularly, attend all theaters, sometimes dine tete-a-tete or receive friends. John Walking and password, it must recognize the best years of his life, but the relationship with May takes more importance because their tacit agreement never challenged them not to make "the beast "to pounce and destroy everything. It is only at the tomb of Mary, died suddenly, John Walking realizes how his egocentrism and indecisive fears it will lose the happiness that was intended for him.This book contain a dynamic table to access the different parts. the layout is perfect pleasant reading