Henry James (1) (1843–1916)
Author of The Portrait of a Lady
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Henry James (1) has been aliased into Henry James, Jr..
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Works by Henry James
Works have been aliased into Henry James, Jr..
Autobiographies | A small boy and others | Notes of a son and brother | The middle years | other autobiographical… (2016) 97 copies
Henry James: Daisy Miller * Washington Square * Portrait of a Lady * The Bostonians * The Aspern Papers (2002) 39 copies
The art of travel; scenes and journeys in America, England, France, and Italy from the travel writings (1958) 36 copies
Major stories & essays 14 copies
Daisy Miller, Pandora, The Patagonia, The marriages, The real thing, Brooksmith, The Beldonald Holbein, The story in… (1909) 14 copies
Henry James and H.G. Wells: A record of their friendship, their debate on the art of fiction, and their quarrel (1958) 12 copies
Three novels: The Europeans, The spoils of Poynton, The sacred fount (A Perennial classic, P3077) (1968) 10 copies
[unidentified works] 10 copies
Letters 9 copies
France in mind : an anthology 9 copies
Henry James Novella Collection: The Turn of the Screw, Daisy Miller, The Beast In The Jungle, The Pupil, The Aspern… (2020) 9 copies
Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels: Aspern Papers, Altar of the Dead, Daisy Miller, International Episode, the… (1962) 8 copies
Romanzi brevi 8 copies
The Aspern Papers: The Turn of the Screw; The Spoils of Poynton. Heron Collected Works of Henry James (1968) 8 copies
Volume XVI The New York Edition (The Author of Beltraffio The Middle Years Greville Fane and Other Tales) (1909) 7 copies
Works of Henry James. Including The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, The Ambassadors, The Bostonians, The… (2009) 7 copies
Tales 7 copies
Romanzi 6 copies
The Europeans, Daisy Miller, Washington Square, The Aspern Papers, The Turn of the Screw, The Portrait of a Lady (1981) 6 copies
The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories: The Romance of Certain Old Clothes, The Friends of the Friends and The Jolly… (2010) 6 copies
Selected Works (Daisy Miller, Portrait of a Lady, Aspern Papers, The Turn of the Screw) (1995) 6 copies
Verschijningen uit niemandsland 6 copies
The Reverberator, Madame de Mauves, A Passionate Pilgrim, The Madonna of the Future, and Louisa Pallant. (1922) 6 copies
Henry James Collection: The Complete Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Travel Writings, Essays, Autobiographies (2018) 5 copies
Racconti 5 copies
Tales: Maud-Evelyn - The Death of the Lion / Nouvelles: Maud-Evelyn - La mort du lion (1993) 4 copies
The Aspern Papers and Other Stories by James, Henry ( AUTHOR ) Feb-01-2013 Paperback (2013) 4 copies
The lesson of the master, The marriages, The pupil, Brooksmith, The Solution, Sir Edmund Orme (2004) 4 copies
The Master, the Modern Major General, and His Clever Wife: Henry James's Letters to Field Marshal Lord Wolseley and… (2012) 4 copies
World Classics Library: Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, Washington Square (Arcturus World… (2021) 4 copies
The correspondence of Henry James and the House of Macmillan, 1877-1914 : "all the links in the chain" (1993) 4 copies
Selected Short Works by Henry James: The Aspern Papers: The Beast in the Jungle: The Jolly Corner (2004) 4 copies
Henry James: Representative Selections, with Introduction, Bibliography, and Notes (American Writers Series) (1966) 4 copies
The tale of three cities 3 copies
Complete Works of Henry James: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Essays, Autobiography and Letters: The Portrait of a Lady,… (2015) 3 copies
Voyage en france 3 copies
Le prefazioni 3 copies
Le dernier des ValerII 3 copies
Cousin et cousine 3 copies
Reading & Training : Henry James : The portrait of a lady [book + sound recording] (2005) — Writer — 3 copies
The Princess Casamassima - Vol. II (The Novels and Tales of Henry James, New York Edition, Volume VI) (1922) 3 copies
Visites de fantômes - Le conte des vieilles robes ; Sir Edmund Orme ; Nona Vincent ; Owen Wingrave ; La tierce… (1998) 3 copies
O mentiroso 3 copies
The Henry James Collection I: 24 Novellas and Short Stories (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (2009) 3 copies
The Awkward Age by Henry James - Delphi Classics (Illustrated) (Delphi Parts Edition (Henry James) Book 15) (2019) 2 copies
Henry James: The Complete Supernatural Stories (20 tales of ghosts and mystery: The Turn of the Screw, The Real Right… (2018) 2 copies
The Aspern Papers and Other Tales, 1884–1888 (The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James, Series… (2022) 2 copies
Novels and stories of Henry James 2 copies
Daisy Miller (Macmillan Reader) 2 copies
Henry James: Five Novels- The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, The Wings of the Dove, What Maisie Knew, The… (2015) 2 copies
The Turn of the Screw and Other Horrors: The Best Ghost Stories of Henry James: Annotated and Illustrated (Oldstyle… (2016) 2 copies
William Wetmore Story and His Friends, Vol. 2 of 2: From Letters, Diaries, and Recollections (Classic Reprint) (2015) 2 copies
Obras Escogidas 2 copies
The Question of Speech 2 copies
The Golden Bowl Vol I & II 2 copies
What Maisie Knew: 2 2 copies
Reading & Training : Henry James : The turn of the screw [book + sound recording] (2008) — Writer — 2 copies
Die Freunde der Freunde. Der Geier (Die Meisterwerke der Phantastischen Weltliteratur ; Bd. 6) (1983) 2 copies
Racconti scelti (racconti) 2 copies
Lo real y otros cuentos 2 copies
Os Manuscritos de Jeffrey Aspern 2 copies
Henry James THE TURN OF THE SCREW The Lesson of the Master Modern Library (1777) — Author — 2 copies
Drzewo wiadomości 2 copies
I grandi romanzi: L'americano-Washington Square-Le bostoniane-Ritratto di signora-Le ali della colomba-Giro di… (2016) 2 copies
The author of Beltraffio, Pandora, Georgina's reasons. The path of duty, Four meetings (2010) 2 copies
Henry James Essays, American &English Writers, European Writers& the prefaces, Collected Travel Writings:the Continent… (2001) 2 copies
Retrato de una dama (DVD) 2 copies
Turn of the Screw 3RD EDITION 2 copies
The Golden Bowl, The Portrait of a Lady, The Spoils of Poynton and other Stories (Three Volume Set) (1971) 2 copies
Nathaniel Hawthorne 2 copies
Città e paesaggi di Toscana 2 copies
The Henry James Collection II: 24 Novellas and Short Stories (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) (2009) 2 copies
Drzewo wiadomości i inne opowiadania 2 copies
Foreign parts 2 copies
The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Henry James: Volume 1-Including Two Novellas 'The Turn of the… (2009) 2 copies
Great Works of Henry James 2 copies
Noveller 2 copies
The Madonna of the Future Volume 1; The Madonna of the Future. Longstaff's Marriage. Madame de Mauves (2010) 2 copies
Henry James: Complete Collection of 158 Works with analysis and historical background. Including Henry James's letters… (2013) 2 copies
L'INQUILINO FANTASMA 1 copy
American Critical Essays, XIX-XX Century (The World's Classics) — Contributor — 1 copy
The Portrait of a Lady (Cambridge World Classics) Critical Edition With Complete Unabridged Novel 1 copy
Son Derece Tuhaf bir Durum 1 copy
Fire and the Hammer, Barabbas, Helen Gould Was My Mother in Law, the Glass of Fashion, the Overloaded Ark, Washington… (1954) 1 copy
The TURN Of The SCREW. The LESSON Of The MASTER. Introduction by Heywood Broun. Modern Library #169. 1 copy
WASHINGTON SQUARE Level 3 1 copy
Henry James Short Stories 1 copy
The Wings of thee Dove 1 copy
Œuvres 1 copy
L'Art de la Fiction : The art of fiction, Gustave Flaubert, Julia Bride / Henry James, et neuf ťudes [par] M.… (1978) 1 copy
Representative selections 1 copy
Great of Henry James 1 copy
Henry James Collection: Novels 1880-1886: Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians 1 copy
The Turn of the Screw [Nightmare Classics, Episode 1] — Author — 1 copy
Henry James Classics: The Private Life: Includes the Wheel of Time, Lord Beaupré, The Visits, Collaboration, and Owen… (2021) 1 copy
מיזבח המתים : שלוש נובלות 1 copy
Otra vuelta de la tureca 1 copy
O Aperto do Parafuso 1 copy
Los Papeles de Aspern 1 copy
Nouvelles françaises (Minos) 1 copy
La venganza de Osborne 1 copy
The Turn of the Screw 1 copy
"A Light Man" 1 copy
Racconti di fantasmi 1 copy
La lezione dei maestri 1 copy
Infidelidades 1 copy
“Guest’s Confession” 1 copy
La Madone De l'Avenir 1 copy
“The Story of a Year” 1 copy
Due donne 1 copy
The Greatest Literary Classics Of All Time: 150 Books: Romeo and Juliet, Emma, Vanity Fair, Middlemarch, Tom Sawyer,… (2020) 1 copy
“A Day of Days” 1 copy
Stories Revived ...: The Author of "Beltraffio!-Pandora.-The Path of Duty.-A Day of Days.-A Light Man.-V. 2. Georgina's… (2015) 1 copy
The turn off the screw 1 copy
The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady The Wings of the Dove What Maisie Knew The American The… (2015) 1 copy
Echo 1 copy
The Portrait of a Lady + The Bostonians + The Tragic Muse + Daisy Miller (4 Unabridged Classics) 1 copy
Πλατεία Ουάσινγκτον 1 copy
Os quatro encontros 1 copy
The Collected Works of Henry James: The Complete Works PergamonMedia (Highlights of World Literature) (2015) 1 copy
Le Ali della Colomba Vol.II 1 copy
Giro di vite : romanzo 1 copy
Maisie tudja 1 copy
ヘンリー・ジェイムズ傑作選 (講談社文芸文庫) 1 copy
LA CREATION LITTERAIRE: PREFACES DE L'EDITION DE NEW YORK (BIBLIOTHEQUE MEDIATIONS) (French Edition) (1980) 1 copy
Little Tour in France, A 1 copy
Memories and Studies 1 copy
garz. opowiadania 1 copy
Collection 1 copy
Letters, volumes 1 -4 1 copy
Henry James 1 copy
Italian Tales 1 copy
THE GHOST KINGS 1 copy
THE MADONNA OF THE FUTURE / A BUNDLE OF LETTERS / THE DIARY OF A MAN OF FIFTY / EUGENE PICKERING 1 copy
Ghost Stories of Olde Vol. 3 1 copy
Great American Short Stories 1 copy
oeuvres romanesques 1 copy
Frames in James: The Tragic Muse, The Turn of the Screw, What Maisie Knew, and The Ambassadors (E L S Monograph Series) (1993) 1 copy
The Spoils of Poynton [1970 TV series] — Original book — 1 copy
Romanzi e racconti 1 copy
Six Stories 1 copy
Até o último fantasma 1 copy
Henry James Omnibus 1 copy
TRES NOVELAS SELECTAS: -DIARIO DE UN HOMBRE DE CINCUENTA AÑOS - EL MENTIROSO POBRE RICHARD (2012) 1 copy
Tre ritratti 1 copy
Dietro la vetrina 1 copy
The American [Box Set] 1 copy
THE MAJOR PHASE 1 copy
The Works of Henry James 1 copy
William Wetmore Story and His Friends, Vol. 1 of 2: From Letters, Diaries, and Recollections (Classic Reprint) (2015) 1 copy
Nine Tales, C3 1 copy
Future of the Novel 1 copy
Henry James 1884-1891 1 copy
CUENTOS CON FANTASMAS 1 copy
The letters 1 copy
4 volume Complete Stories of Henry James: 1864-1874, 1874-1884, 1884-1891, 1892-1898 (Library of America) (1999) 1 copy
Skruen strammes 1 copy
Tuscan places, as seen by Henry James: with 32 coloured plates and original extracts from Henry James (1970) 1 copy
Thalia petasata iterum; or, A foot journey from Dresden to Venice, described on the way in verse (2012) 1 copy
James' The Turn of the Screw 1 copy
Obras escogidas, vol. II 1 copy
Four short novels 1 copy
36 Ghost Stories: Anthology 1 copy
The Innocent Voyage 1 copy
Notebooks of Henry James 1 copy
Romans 1 copy
Roderick Hudson (vol.I) 1 copy
L'ultimo dei Valeri 1 copy
Henry James' The Death Of The Lion: “Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you,… (2013) 1 copy
Kruvi keere 1 copy
Romanzi brevi (vol.I) 1 copy
Roderick Hudson (vol.II) 1 copy
Romanzi 1 copy
Lo scolaro 1 copy
the novel and tales 1 copy
Associated Works
Works have been aliased into Henry James, Jr..
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 929 copies
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (2009) — Contributor — 265 copies
Pages Passed from Hand to Hand: The Hidden Tradition of Homosexual Literature in English from 1748 to 1914 (1998) — Contributor — 171 copies
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories: From Elizabeth Gaskell to Ambrose Bierce (2010) — Contributor — 149 copies
An American Album: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Harper's Magazine (2000) — Contributor — 133 copies
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Contributor — 93 copies
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contributor — 83 copies
Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated) (2011) — Contributor, some editions — 78 copies
The Phantom Coach: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Ghost Stories (The Connoisseur's Collections) (1900) — Contributor — 57 copies
Doré's London: All 180 Images from the Original London Series with Selected Writings (2008) — Contributor — 55 copies
The world of law; a treasury of great writing about and in the law, short stories, plays, essays, accounts, letters,… (1960) — Contributor — 54 copies
Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves and Ghosts: 25 Classic Stories of the Supernatural (2011) — Contributor — 39 copies
Published and Perished: Memoria, Eulogies, and Remembrances of American Writers (2002) — Contributor — 37 copies
Civil War Memories: Nineteen Stories of Battle, Bravery, Love, and Tragedy (2000) — Contributor — 33 copies
The Tavern Lamps Are Burning: Literary Journeys through Six Regions and Four Centuries of New York State (1964) — Contributor — 20 copies
The Romantic Friendship Reader: Love Stories Between Men in Victorian America (2003) — Contributor — 16 copies
Selected English Short Stories: XIX and XX Centuries (Second Series) (1924) — Contributor — 14 copies
The Henry James Collection: The American / The Portrait of a Lady / The Wings of the Dove / The Golden Bowl / The… (2009) — Original book — 12 copies
Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others (2008) — Contributor — 10 copies
Penny Dreadful Multipack Volume 7 – The Americans: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Mosses… (2015) — Contributor — 7 copies
Het neusje van de zalm een feestelijke bloemlezing uit Querido's 'vlaggetjesreeks' (1986) — Contributor — 5 copies
Representative American Short Stories — Contributor — 5 copies
The American [1998 film] — Original book — 4 copies
Modern Short Stories — Contributor — 2 copies
Ode to Boy: Vol. 2: An Anthology of Same-Sex Attraction in Literature from the 19th Century Through the First World War (2014) — Contributor — 2 copies
The Uncertain Element: An Anthology of Fantastic Conceptions — Contributor — 1 copy
90 Masterpieces You Must Read (Vol.1): Novels, Poetry, Plays, Short Stories, Essays, Psychology & Philosophy (2020) — Contributor — 1 copy
Fantastyczne Opowieści — Contributor — 1 copy
Duchy Zimowej Nocy 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1843-04-15
- Date of death
- 1916-02-28
- Burial location
- Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA (ashes interred)
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA (birth)
UK (naturalised 1915) - Country (for map)
- United States of America
- Birthplace
- Washington Place, New York, New York, USA
- Place of death
- Chelsea, London, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Newport, Rhode Island, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
London, England, UK
Lamb House, Rye, East Sussex, England, UK
Florence, Italy
Venice, Italy (show all 7)
Paris, France - Education
- privately educated
Harvard Law School - Occupations
- novelist
literary critic
playwright
travel writer
short-story writer
essayist (show all 9)
biographer
art critic
war volunteer - Relationships
- James Snr., Henry (father)
James, William (brother)
James, Alice (sister) - Organizations
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1898)
The Atlantic
The New York Tribune - Awards and honors
- L.H.D., Harvard University (1911)
L.H.D., Oxford University (1912)
Order of Merit (1915)
James Memorial Stone, Poet's Corner, Westminster Abbey, London - Short biography
- Henry James (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American author, who became a British subject in the last year of his life, regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of renowned philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
He is best known for a number of novels dealing with the social and marital interplay between émigré Americans, English people, and continental Europeans. Examples of such novels include The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, and The Wings of the Dove. His later works were increasingly experimental. In describing the internal states of mind and social dynamics of his characters, James often made use of a style in which ambiguous or contradictory motives and impressions were overlaid or juxtaposed in the discussion of a character's psyche. For their unique ambiguity, as well as for other aspects of their composition, his late works have been compared to impressionist painting.
His novella The Turn of the Screw has garnered a reputation as the most analysed and ambiguous ghost story in the English language and remains his most widely adapted work in other media. He also wrote a number of other highly regarded ghost stories and is considered one of the greatest masters of the field.
James published articles and books of criticism, travel, biography, autobiography, and plays. Born in the United States, James largely relocated to Europe as a young man and eventually settled in England, becoming a British citizen in 1915, one year before his death. James was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912 and 1916.
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Group Read, June 2023: The Wings of the Dove in 1001 Books to read before you die (June 2023)
Victorian Era Abroad: Q1: The Bostonians by Henry James in Club Read 2023 (February 2023)
THE DEEP ONES: "The Friends of the Friends" by Henry James in The Weird Tradition (April 2022)
Henry James: American Author Challenge in 75 Books Challenge for 2015 (March 2015)
February Group Read: Portrait of a Lady by Henry James in 2015 Category Challenge (February 2015)
Group Read: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James in 2013 Category Challenge (August 2013)
Which Henry James novel should i try? in Book talk (March 2012)
June 2011: What are you reading? in 1001 Books to read before you die (July 2011)
***Group Read: The Portrait of a Lady, Chapters 45-55 in 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (April 2011)
***Group Read: The Portrait of a Lady, Chapters 34-44 in 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (March 2011)
***Group Read: The Portrait of a Lady, Chapters 13-33 in 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (March 2011)
***Group Read: The Portrait of a Lady, Chapters 12-22 in 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (March 2011)
***Group Read: The Portrait of a Lady, Chapters 1-11 in 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (March 2011)
***Group Read: The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James in 75 Books Challenge for 2011 (March 2011)
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'Washington Square' was much more substantial: I liked the portrayal of Mrs Penniman, with her desire to facilitate, dramatize and be involved in Catherine's love affair with the unpleasant Morris. Catherine's father was hard to understand - he was so dismissive of his daughter and enjoyed being proved right even when her heart was broken.… (more)