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The Aspern Papers and Other Tales by Henry James; Michael Gorra (Notes by, Introduction by); Philip Horne (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
An impressive new selection of Henry James's short stories, edited by Pulitzer Prize-nominated James biographer Michael Gorra This volume gathers seven of the very best of Henry James's short stories, all exploring the relationship between art and life. In the title story, "The Aspern Papers," a cri ...Show more
The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James
$5.00 AUD
Category: Classics
'Something or other lay in wait for him, amid the twists and turns of the months and the years, like a crouching beast in the jungle.' Henry James' devastating and profoundly moving novella is the story of John Marcher, a man who, for as long as he can remember, has been obsessed by the feeling that som ...Show more
The Bostonians by JAMES HENRY
$24.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Modern Library Classics Ser.
The Bostonians is a novel by the renowned American author, Henry James. It is a story set in Boston in the late 19th century, and it revolves around the lives of a group of people who are involved in the feminist movement. The novel follows the story of Olive Chancellor, a strong-willed feminist who is ...Show more
The Bostonians by Henry James; Richard Lansdown (Introduction by)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
Published in 1886, The Bostonians begins with the arrival in Boston of Basil Ransom, a young Mississippi lawyer in search of a career. Through his cousin, Olive Chancellor, Ransom comes to meet Verena, the beautiful daughter of a charlatan faith-healer and showman. When they hear Verena talk, Olive hope ...Show more
The Europeans by Henry James
$16.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
one of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous short stories and novels.
The Europeans: A Sketch by Henry James
$14.95 AUD
Category: Classics
Eugenia, an American expatriate brought up in Europe, arrives in rural New England with her charming brother Felix, hoping to find a wealthy second husband after the collapse of her marriage to a German prince. Their exotic, sophisticated airs cause quite a stir with their affluent, God-fearing American ...Show more
The Figure in the Carpet : Little Black Classic by Henry James
$1.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 49 | Reading Level: very good
Did she know and if she knew would she speak?'The story of an unsolved literary mystery that explores what James referred to as "troubled artistic consciousness" Introducing Little Black Classics- 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Pengu ...Show more
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
$19.99 AUD
Category: Classics
"James described The Golden Bowl as 'the most done of my productions--the most composed and constructed and completed.' In the novel an American woman, Maggie Verver, marries an Italian prince, while her wealthy father marries Maggie's girlhood friend, Charlotte Stant--neither Verver being aware that th ...Show more
The Golden Bowl by Henry James
$19.95 AUD
Category: Classics
'This story of the alliance between Italian aristocracy and American millionaires is "a work unique among all [James'] novels: it is [his] only novel in which things come out right for his characters ...he had finally resolved the questions, curious and passionate, that had kept him at his desk on his i ...Show more
The Portrait Of A Lady by Henry James
$17.99 AUD
Category: Classics
When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy her freedom, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond. Cha ...Show more
The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
$11.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Evergreens
Having travelled from her native New York to London to meet her relatives, Isabel Archer, a young, independently minded young woman, rejects the marriage proposals of two suitors in her determination to stay in control of her destiny. When she suddenly comes into a large legacy, Isabel believes that thi ...Show more