Short novel e-books (2h to read) of Henry James

IN TWO PARTS The text is that of the first American appearance in book form, 1879.

CHAPTER I It had occurred to her early that in her position--that of a young person spending, in framed and wired confinement, the life of a guinea-pig or a magpie--she should know a great many p...

[Picture: Decorative graphic] * * * * * LONDON: MARTIN SECKER NUMBER FIVE JOHN STREET ADELPHI ...

NOTES ON NOVELISTS WITH SOME OTHER NOTES EDITOR'S NOTE _The following pages represent all that Henry James lived to write of a volume of autobiographical reminiscences to which he had given t...

PART I Four years ago--in 1874--two young Englishmen had occasion to go to the United States.

I Intending to sail for America in the early part of June, I determined to spend the interval of six weeks in England, to which country my mind's eye only had as yet been introduced.

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was the most complete presentation that had yet been made of the gospel of art; it was a kind of æsthetic war-cry.

Byhenry James I The view from the terrace at Saint-Germain-en-Laye is immense and famous.

Henry James 1922 I It seemed to them at first, the offer, too good to be true, and their friend's letter, addressed to them to feel, as he said, the ground, to sound them as to inclinations and...

Harper And Brothers - MDCCCXCIII NOTE Two of the following papers were originally published, with illustrations, in Harper's Magazine and the title of one of them--the first of titles has been...

1885 PART I. I. She was certainly a singular girl, and if he felt at the end that he did n't know her nor understand her, it is not surprising that he should have felt it at the beginning.

CHAPTER I The houses were dark in the August night and the perspective of Beacon Street, with its double chain of lamps, was a foreshortened desert.

I IT has long been the custom of the North German Lloyd steamers, which convey passengers from Bremen to New York, to anchor for several hours in the pleasant port of Southampton, where their hum...

Transcribed from 1893 Macmillan and Co.