Best Henry James Short Stories - April 2024

7 best short stories: Work (7 best short stories - specials Book 38)

Money - and the social effects of having it or not - is too big a theme in people's daily lives to be ignored by literature. The writers gave the most varied interpretations and looked from the most different angles to the human relationship with money - but the final thought is always up to the reader.The critic August Nemo selected seven classic short stories on this subject:Counterparts by James JoyceThe Romance of a Busy Broker by O. HenrySleepy by Anton ChekhovNeighbour Rosicky by Willa CatherAn Old Maid's Triumph by George GissingThe Egg by Sherwood AndersonA Simple Soul by Gustave Flaub... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07TW65XZ9
• ASIN: B07TW65XZ9
• Manufacturer: Tacet Books

Henry James: The Complete Works

This ebook contains Henry James' complete works.This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work.

• ASIN: B079J3VG4C
• ASIN: B079J3VG4C
• Manufacturer: Pandora's Box

Henry James: Collected Stories Volume 2 (Everyman's Library)

 Encompassing a period of almost fifty years, the stories of Henry James represent the most remarkable feat of sustained literary creation in modern times. For sheer richness, variety and intensity, they have no equal in fiction, enabling us to trace the evolution of a great writer in the finest detail. This collection reprints all the major stories together with many unfamiliar but equally intriguing pieces that illuminate their more celebrated companions.            Volume 2 takes us from “The Private Life” of 1892 to James’s last story, “A Round of Visits,” published i... [Read More]

• ASIN: 037540936X
• ASIN: 037540936X
• ISBN: 9780375409363
• Brand: James, Henry/ Bayley, John (INT)
• Manufacturer: Everyman's Library

Best Gay Stories 2017

The 2017 volume of Best Gay Stories is edited by Joe Okonkwo, winner of the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. This book showcases the many diverse voices writing in gay fiction and creative non-fiction today. In these pages are acclaimed storytellers, including David Barclay Moore and Martin Pousson, as well as new voices in the field. Readers will find an emotional array, from loneliness and loss, to whimsy and mischief, to passionate love--a year's worth of trysts and turns from a gay perspective.

• ASIN: B074WFR4WH
• ASIN: B074WFR4WH
• Manufacturer: Lethe Press

The New York Stories of Henry James (New York Review Books Classics)

Henry James led a wandering life, which took him far from his native shores, but he continued to think of New York City, where his family had settled for several years during his childhood, as his hometown. Here Colm Tóibín, the author of the Man Booker Prize–shortlisted novel The Master, a portrait of Henry James, brings together for the first time all the stories that James set in New York City. Written over the course of James's career and ranging from the deliciously tart comedy of the early "An International Episode" to the surreal and haunted corridors of "The Jolly Corner," and incl... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1590171624
• ASIN: 1590171624
• ISBN: 1590171624
• Manufacturer: NYRB Classics

Henry James: The Complete Collection (Golden Deer Classics)

THE NOVELS Watch and Ward, Roderick Hudson, The American, The Europeans, Confidence, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Reverberator, The Tragic Muse, The Other House, The Spoils of Poynton, What Maisie Knew, The Awkward Age, The Sacred Fount, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, The Golden Bowl, The Outcry, The Whole Family, The Ivory Tower, The Sense of the Past THE TALES A Tragedy of Error, The Story of a Year, A Landscape-Painter, A Day of Days, My Friend Bingham, Poor Richard, The Story of a Masterpiece, The Romance of Certain Old C... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01JFABCSE
• ASIN: B01JFABCSE
• Manufacturer: Henry James

7 best short stories: Weird Fiction (7 best short stories - specials Book 13)

 Weird Fiction fiction utilises elements of horror, science fiction and fantasy to showcase the impotence and insignificance of human beings within a much larger universe populated by often malign powers and forces that greatly exceed the human capacities to understand or control them. The critic August Nemo has selected seven classic tales of the genre, especially for readers who want (and have courage!) to face the abyss:The Dunwich Horror by H.P. LovecraftHell Screen by Ryūnosuke AkutagawaAn Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose BierceThe White People by Arthur MachenNumber 13 by M. R... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07STWRSYD
• ASIN: B07STWRSYD
• Manufacturer: Tacet Books

Henry James : Complete Stories 1884-1891 (Library of America)

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. “Th... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1883011647
• ASIN: 1883011647
• ISBN: 1883011647
• Brand: Brand: Library of America
• Manufacturer: Library of America

Henry James : Novels 1881-1886: Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians (Library of America)

• ASIN: 0940450305
• ASIN: 0940450305
• ISBN: 0940450305
• Brand: Library of America
• Manufacturer: Library of America

Henry James : Novels 1886-1890: The Princess Casamassima, The Reverberator, The Tragic Muse (Library of America)

The three novels in this Library of America volume from Henry James’s middle period explore some historical and social dilemmas that belong as much to our time as to his own. The Princess Casamassima was published in 1886, a year that saw riots of the unemployed in London. It is a political novel in which anarchists and terrorists conspire within a fin de siècle world of opulence and glamour. The action ranges from palaces to slums, from London to Paris to Venice and back again. The novel’s hero, Hyacinth Robinson, is torn between his loyalty to revolutionary causes—for which he is ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0940450569
• ASIN: 0940450569
• ISBN: 0940450569
• Manufacturer: Library of America

THE BEST SHORT STORIES OF ALL TIME Volume 3

- Including a short biographies of authors This outstanding collection features short stories by a variety of great authors. Ranging from the 19th to the 20th centuries, writers include HERMAN MELVILLE, F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, HENRY JAMES, MARK TWAIN, E. M. FORSTER, ANTON CHEKHOV, JOSEPH CONRAD, D. H. LAWRENCE, AMBROSE BIERCE.

• ASIN: B00BRMYT84
• ASIN: B00BRMYT84

Bill O'Reilly's Legends and Lies: The Real West

The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historic series Legends and Lies: The Real West, a fascinating, eye-opening look at the truth behind the western legends we all think we knowHow did Davy Crockett save President Jackson's life only to end up dying at the Alamo? Was the Lone Ranger based on a real lawman-and was he an African American? What amazing detective work led to the capture of Black Bart, the "gentleman bandit" and one of the west's most famous stagecoach robbers? Did Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid really die in a hail of bullets in South America? Generations of Americans h... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00SEO84VQ
• ASIN: B00SEO84VQ
• Brand: Unknown
• Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.

Selected Tales (Penguin Classics)

Throughout his life, Henry James was drawn to the short story form for the freedom and variety it offered. The nineteen stories in this selection span James's career, from brief tales to longer works, all exploring his concerns with the old world and the new, money, fame and art. 'Daisy Miller', the work that first brought him fame, depicts a bold, unsophisticated American girl abroad, and 'In the Cage' portrays a young telegraphist's romantic fantasies about customers who send telegrams from her post office. In 'The Birthplace' a Stratford tour guide embellishes the Shakespeare legend, while ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0140436944
• ASIN: 0140436944
• ISBN: 0140436944
• Manufacturer: Penguin Classics

The Complete Works of O. Henry: Short Stories, Poems and Letters

• ASIN: B00ZI8M7AK
• ASIN: B00ZI8M7AK
• Manufacturer: e-artnow ebooks

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

Seven superb short stories from the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG! Meet the boy who can talk to animals and the man who can see with his eyes closed. And find out about the treasure buried deep underground. A cleaver mix of fact and fiction, this collection also includes how master storyteller Roald Dahl became a writer. With Roald Dahl, you can never be sure where reality ends and fantasy begins."All the tales are entrancing inventions." —Publishers Weekly

• ASIN: B0093XANZM
• ASIN: B0093XANZM
• Manufacturer: Puffin Books

The Best Short Stories and Novellas of Henry James - eBook

This collection of Henry James's shorter works brings together some of his most famous works including "The Turn of the Screw", "Daisy Miller", and "The Aspern Papers". In addition to these works you will find

• UPC: 277310182

Some Short Stories [by Henry James] - eBook

We are scattered now, the friends of the late Mr. Oliver Offord; but whenever we chance to meet I think we are conscious of a certain esoteric respect for each other. “Yes, you too have

• UPC: 984619581
• Rating: 2.0

Henry James Short Stories Volume 11 - eBook

Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses

• UPC: 873830448
• Rating: 4.0

Henry James Short Stories Volume 6 - eBook

Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses

• UPC: 464369217
• Rating: 4.0

Henry James Short Stories Volume 3 - eBook

Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses

• UPC: 647676573
• Rating: 4.0

Henry James Short Stories Volume 7 - eBook

Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses

• UPC: 998243110
• Rating: 4.0

Henry James Short Stories Volume 8 - eBook

Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses

• UPC: 890189884
• Rating: 4.0

Henry James Short Stories Volume 4 - eBook

Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses

• UPC: 667980047
• Rating: 4.0

Henry James Short Stories Volume 1 - eBook

Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses

• UPC: 990168121
• Rating: 4.0

Henry James Short Stories Volume 14 - eBook

Renowned author and Anglophile Henry James brings the class and elegance of Victorian and Edwardian literature throughout this short story series. Each volume contains a mixture of well known favourites and forgotten gems. James refuses

• UPC: 132939973
• Rating: 4.0

The short stories of Henry James; (The Modern library of the world's best...

• UPC: 143149694562
• Category: Antiquarian & Collectible
• Price: 23 USD

The Best Short Stories Volume III: Chosen in 1914 by the Most Prominent Authors

• UPC: 361269559940
• Category: Fiction & Literature
• Price: 24 USD