Download or read book The Collected Works of Henry James Vol 29 of 36 written by Henry James and published by Bookland Classics. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Birthplace" is a short story by Henry James, first published in his collection The Better Sort in 1903. A witty satire on the excesses of bardolatry, the story reflects James's skepticism about the authorship of Shakespeare's plays. Beyond the narrow scholarly issue, the story also shows a typically imaginative Jamesian protagonist inventing an alternative reality in his lecture on the Bard's supposed childhood activities. Morris Gedge is a librarian at a dull provincial library in England that is "all granite, fog and female fiction." He gets a welcome offer to become the custodian of the Shakespeare house at Stratford-on-Avon. Although Shakespeare's name is never mentioned in the story (James used the name twice in his Notebooks when he was planning the tale) it's obvious to whom "the supreme Mecca of the English-speaking race" is devoted. Once installed as the custodian, Morris begins to doubt the chatter he is forced to give to tourists who visit the home. He starts to qualify and hesitate in his spiel. This brings anguish to his wife and a warning from the shrine's proprietors. Gedge finally decides that if silliness is what's wanted, he'll supply it abundantly. The last section of the story shows him delivering a hilarious lecture on how the child Shakespeare played around the house. Of course, receipts from tourists increase and Gedge gets a raise.
Download or read book The Collected Works of Henry James Vol 01 of 36 written by Henry James and published by Bookland Classics. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roderick Hudson is a novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1875 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, it is a bildungsroman that traces the development of the title character, a sculptor. The American is a novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly in 1876-77 and then as a book in 1877.
Download or read book The Collected Works of Henry James Vol 04 of 36 written by Henry James and published by Bookland Classics. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Aspern Papers is a novella by American writer Henry James, originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1888, with its first book publication later in the same year. The Ambassadors is a 1903 novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in the North American Review (NAR).
Download or read book The Collected Works of Henry James Vol 15 of 36 written by Henry James and published by Bookland Classics. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picture and Text is a collection of essays by Henry James on the art of illustration, published in 1893. A Small Boy and Others is a book of autobiography by Henry James published in 1913. The book covers James' earliest years and discusses his intellectually active family, his intermittent schooling, and his first trips to Europe.
Download or read book The Collected Works of Henry James Vol 30 of 36 written by Henry James and published by Bookland Classics. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Coxon Fund" is an 1894 short story by Henry James. Frank Saltram is a man who apparently has a towering intellect, but one that manifests itself only in sparkling table-talk. The Death of the Lion is an 1894 short story by Henry James. The narrator suggests writing an article on Neil Paraday an author; his new editor agrees.
Download or read book The Works of Henry James Vol 25 of 36 written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lesson of the Master is a novella written by Henry James, originally published in 1888. The novella tells the story of a young writer, Paul Overt, who meets Henry St. George, a famous novelist Overt admires. During that time, Overt also meets and falls in love with Marian Fancourt, a young woman who admires both St. George's and Overt's work. During their meetings, St. George, who is married, advises Overt against getting married and having children, arguing that a wife and children will be the death of Overt's creativity and career. Overt then takes an extended vacation in which he considers St. George's advice. When he returns, he learns that St. George's wife had died and that St. George and Marian Fancourt had become engaged. Overt feels that St. George had set him up in order to have Miss Fancourt for himself, but St. George insists that by marrying her, he saved Overt and his career.
Download or read book The Selected Works of Henry James Vol 29 of 36 written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Coxon Fund" is an 1894 short story by Henry James. Frank Saltram is a man who apparently has a towering intellect, but one that manifests itself only in sparkling table-talk. He has a real and powerful gift to delight with his conversation, particularly when intoxicated, but other than conversation he produces nothing.
Download or read book The Collected Works of Henry James Vol 20 of 36 Partial Portraits English Hours written by Henry James and published by Throne Classics. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partial Portraits is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1888. The book collected essays that James had written over the preceding decade, mostly on English and American writers. English Hours is a book of travel writing by Henry James published in 1905.
Download or read book The Selected Works of Henry James Vol 04 of 36 written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ambassadors is a 1903 novel by Henry James, originally published as a serial in the North American Review (NAR). "The Real Thing" is a short story by Henry James, first syndicated by S. S. McClure in multiple American newspapers and then published in the British publication Black and White in April 1892.
Download or read book The Selected Works of Henry James Vol 09 of 36 written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bostonians is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Century Magazine in 1885-1886 and then as a book in 1886. Hawthorne is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1879. The book was an insightful study of James' great predecessor Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Download or read book The Complete Letters of Henry James 1878 1880 written by Henry James and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing letters written between September 2, 1879, and May 14, 1880, this second volume of The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1878–1880 documents the full establishment of Henry James as a professional writer and critic on both sides of the Atlantic, as James publishes the novel Confidence and the literary biography Hawthorne and begins work on Washington Square and The Portrait of a Lady. James also visits Paris, Florence, Rome, and Naples; begins his friendship with Constance Fenimore Woolson; and deepens his attachment to London and to his friends and acquaintances there.
Download or read book The Complete Letters of Henry James 1887 1888 written by Henry James and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2023-10 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This seventeenth installment in the complete collection of Henry James's known and extant letters records James's ongoing efforts to care for his sister, develop his work, strengthen his professional status, build friendships, engage timely political and economic issues, and maximize his income.
Download or read book The Works of Henry James Vol 13 of 36 written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partial Portraits is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1888. The book collected essays that James had written over the preceding decade, mostly on English and American writers. Picture and Text is a collection of essays by Henry James on the art of illustration, published in 1893.
Download or read book The Selected Works of Henry James Vol 31 of 36 written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Figure in the Carpet" is a short story (sometimes considered a novella) by American writer Henry James first published in 1896. "The Jolly Corner" is a short story by Henry James published first in the magazine The English Review of December, 1908.
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Download or read book COLLECTED WORKS OF HENRY JAMES THE COMPLETE WORKS PERGAMONMEDIA written by HENRY JAMES; RUPERT BROOKE; MARY RAYMOND; ANDREWS. and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Henry James Complete Stories Vol 3 1884 1891 LOA 107 written by Henry James and published by Library of America. This book was released on 1999-01-11 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes overshadowed by his work as a novelist, Henry James’s short fiction is an astonishing achievement, a triumph of inventiveness and restless curiosity. This Library of America volume (the third of five volumes devoted to his short fiction) includes among its seventeen stories some of James’s greatest masterpieces. “The Aspern Papers” is a stunning novella about emotional ruthlessness in the service of literary scholarship. “The Pupil” is a densely suggestive account of the moral perplexities underlying the relationship between an impoverished tutor and a young invalid. “The Lesson of the Master” is an intricate study of ambition, disappointment, and the demands of a life devoted to art. “Brooksmith” is a moving portrait of a house servant and “Sir Edmund Orme” is an enthralling ghost story. In “The Liar,” a painter attempts to force a former love to admit that her present husband is a pathological liar; in “The Patagonia,” a young man cavalierly flirts with a young woman en route to her wedding in England, with disastrous consequences. More than half the stories within this volume are available in no other edition. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
