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Daisy Miller and Other Stories by Henry James
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Daisy Miller is one of Henry James's most attractive heroines: she represents youth and frivolity. As a tourist in Italy, her American freedom and freshness of spirit come up against the corruption and hypocrisy of European manners. From its first publication, readers on both sides of the Atlantic have ...Show more
Ghost Stories of Henry James by Henry James
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Tales of Mystery & the Supernatural
With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury. Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or straightforwardly marvellous and the darker ...Show more
The Illustrated Children's Bible (Leather Bound) by Henry A. Sherman; Charles Foster Kent; William Ladd Taylor (Illustrator); James Jacques Joseph Tissot (Illustrator)
Category: Children's | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Children's Classics Ser.
The Illustrated Children's Bible features Bible tales from both the Old and the New Testaments, told in simple language that young readers will easily understand. Featuring full-colour artwork by W.L. Taylor and J. James Tissot, this volume brings the Bible vividly to life with a classic elegance approp ...Show more
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories by Henry James
Category: Horror
An unsettling new collection of Henry James's best short stories exploring ghosts and the uncanny, edited by Susie Boyt. In 'The Turn of the Screw', one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, a governess becomes obsessed with the belief that malevolent forces are stalking the children in her care ...Show more
The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
Category: No Category | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction by Nicola Bradbury, University of Reading. The Wings of the Dove is a tale of desire and possession, of love and death. It is in essence a simple story, but one that opens up the great subject of art: life itself. To tackle this, James moves between fairytale storylines and the sta ...Show more
What Maisie Knew by Henry James
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics
The child of parents who divorce, remarry and then embark on adulterous affairs, Maisie Farange survives by her intelligence and spirit. For all its sombre theme of childhood innocence exposed to a corrupted adult world, this novel is one of James's comic masterpieces. The outrageous behaviour of the ch ...Show more
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