Henry James

The Ambassadors

By: Henry James

One of Henry James's three late masterpieces, The Ambassadors is a bittersweet paean to the life not lived and one of the most achingly beautiful and moving novels ever written.

What Maisie Knew

By: Henry James

[Read by Lorna Raver] In this classic tale of the death of childhood, there is a savage comedy that owes much to Dickens. But for his portrayal of the child's capacity for intelligent wonder, James summons all the subtlety he devotes...

Daisy Miller

By: Henry James

[Audio CD Library Edition in vinyl case]''What the European male fails to understand is that the American Girl is innocent by definition, mythically innocent; and that her purity depends upon nothing she says or does . . . '' --Leslie...

A Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady' tells the compelling and ultimately tragic tale of a beautiful young American woman's encounter with European sophistication. Set principally in England and Italy, we follow Isabel Archer's fortunes as a variety of admirers...

Wings of the Dove

By: Henry James

Kate Croy's mother was born to wealth and privilege, but she threw it all away to marry Kate's father, a penniless opium addict who admits to having stolen from his wife. After her mother's death, Kate is offered an opportunity to return to the life...

The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

Spirited, beautiful young American Isabel Archer journeys to Europe to, in modern terms, 'find herself.' But what she finds there may prove to be her undoing, especially when an infinitely sophisticated lady plots against her.

The Europeans the Europeans

By: Henry James

Eugenia, a baroness divorced from a German prince, and her bohemian brother, Felix, are coming back to America. Raised and cultured in Europe, they are returning destitute to New England to seek out their rich and innocent cousins. ...

The Turn of the Screw: Classics Read by Celebrities Series (Classics Read By Celebrities)

By: Henry James

Miles and Flora are two children who see ghostly apparitions. Their governess, a neurotic spinster, believes the specters morally dominate the children.

Portrait of a Lady, The

By: Henry James

The heroine of this powerful novel is the spirited young American Isabel Archer. Blessed by nature and fortune, she journeys to Europe to seek her future, but what she finds may prove to be her undoing. She is courted by three men: an English...

Best of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians and The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

The works collected here span the early and late periods of Henry James' career. Widely considered the finest of his early novels, The Portrait of a Lady exemplifies a familiar theme in James' writing: the meeting of Europe and America. Here, the...

The Bostonians

By: Henry James

Dealing heavily with the then very timely political issue of feminism and the changing role of women in society, Henry James's The Bostonians is the story of Civil War veteran Basil Ransom's conflict with his cousin Olive Chancellor for the...

The Ambassadors

By: Henry James

One of Henry James's three late masterpieces, The Ambassadors is a bittersweet paean to the life not lived and one of the most achingly beautiful and moving novels ever written.

The Bostonians

By: Henry James

Dealing heavily with the then very timely political issue of feminism and the changing role of women in society, Henry James's The Bostonians is the story of Civil War veteran Basil Ransom's conflict with his cousin Olive Chancellor for the...

The Europeans the Europeans

By: Henry James

Eugenia, a baroness divorced from a German prince, and her bohemian brother, Felix, are coming back to America. Raised and cultured in Europe, they are returning destitute to New England to seek out their rich and innocent cousins. ...

The Other House

By: Henry James

In three beautifully crafted, dramatic acts, James's little-known novel unravels the painfully complicated emotional bonds which exist within a group of friends and lovers connected by two neighboring homes as they fight publicly for...

The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

Spirited, beautiful young American Isabel Archer journeys to Europe to, in modern terms, 'find herself.' But what she finds there may prove to be her undoing, especially when an infinitely sophisticated lady plots against her.

The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

What seems to start out as a Christmas Eve ghost story quickly becomes a tale of psychological horror as a young governess struggles---and ultimately fails---to protect her charges from the 'corruption' that only she can conceive of.

Daisy Miller

By: Henry James

[MP3CD format in vinyl case]''What the European male fails to understand is that the American Girl is innocent by definition, mythically innocent; and that her purity depends upon nothing she says or does . . . '' --Leslie Fiedler...

The American

By: Henry James

[This is the MP3CD audiobook format.] During a trip to Europe, wealthy American businessman Christopher Newman proposes marriage to the scintillating and beautiful aristocrat Claire de Cintré. To his dismay, he comes up against the...

The Other House

By: Henry James

In three beautifully crafted, dramatic acts, James's little-known novel unravels the painfully complicated emotional bonds which exist within a group of friends and lovers connected by two neighboring homes as they fight publicly for...

The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James

What seems to start out as a Christmas Eve ghost story quickly becomes a tale of psychological horror as a young governess struggles---and ultimately fails---to protect her charges from the 'corruption' that only she can conceive of.

The Wings of the Dove

By: Henry James

When Milly Theale travels to London she meets Kate Croy, and is introduced to her love, Merton Densher. Kate is facing an impossible choice - either marry the man she loves, or give him up in order to take her rightful place in society.

Washington Square

By: Henry James

A wealthy spinster receives a proposal from a dashing suitor, and her father threatens her with disinheritance if she accepts, in Henry James's masterful exploration of the moral consequences of a tender heart's ruthless manipulation.

What Maisie Knew

By: Henry James

[This is the MP3CD audiobook format.] [Read by Lorna Raver] In this classic tale of the death of childhood, there is a savage comedy that owes much to Dickens. But for his portrayal of the child's capacity for intelligent wonder,...

The Turn of the Screw

By: Henry James