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Henry James


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Henry James was born in New York City. In 1865, he began writing reviews and stories for American journals. 1875 found him settled in Paris, then London, where he was very popular in society. He became a British citizen in 1915. He was a highly prolific writer of novels, short stories, and letters.

With almost 40 films based on his novels, recently, The Golden Bowl (2001) The American (1998) and The Wings of the Dove (1997), he heads the list of world-wide television and cinema credits together with Charles Dickens.
 
 
Novels
   Watch and Ward (1871)
   Eugene Pickering (1874)
   Roderick Hudson (1876)
   The American (1877)
   The Europeans (1878)
   Daisy Miller (1879)
   The Diary of Man of Fifty (1879)
   An International Episode (1879)
   Confidence (1880)
   The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
   Washington Square (1881)
   The Bostonians (1886)
   The Princess Casamassima (1886)
   The Patagonia (1889)
   The Lesson of the Master (1892)
   The Private Life (1893)
   The Other House (1896)
   The Spoils of Poynton (1897)
   What Maisie Knew (1897)
   In the Cage (1898)
   The Turn of the Screw (1898)
   The Awkward Age (1899)
   A Little Tour in France (1900)
   The Sacred Fount (1901)
   The Wings of the Dove (1902)
   The Ambassadors (1903)
   The Golden Bowl (1904)
   The Aspern Papers (1908)
   The Whole Family (1908) (with others)
   The Finer Grain (1910)
   The Outcry (1911)
   The Ivory Tower (1917)
   The Sense of the Past (1917)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   The Romance of Certain Old Clothes (1868)
   The Ghostly Rental (1876)
   A Bundle of Letters (1879)
   Pandora (1884)
   A London Life (1888)
   The Pupil (1891)
   The Altar of the Dead (1895)
   The Figure in the Carpet (1896)
   Covering End (1898)
   The Beldonald Holbein (1901)
   The Story in It (1902)
   The Beast in the Jungle (1903)
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Henry James recommends
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Pierre et Jean (1888)
Guy de Maupassant
"Monsieur de Maupassant has never before been so clever."
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Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Harriet Beecher-Stowe
"Much less a book than a state of vision."
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The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"A large and generous production, pervaded with that vague hum, that indefinable echo, of the whole multitudinous life of man, which is the real sign of a great work of fiction."

Anthologies containing stories by Henry James
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Ghost Stories (2019)
Classic Tales of Horror and Suspense
edited by
Leslie S Klinger and Lisa Morton
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Ghost (2015)
100 Stories to Read with the Lights On
edited by
Louise Welsh
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The Phantom Coach (2014)
A Connoisseur's Collection of the Best Victorian Ghost Stories
edited by
Michael Sims

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