The Altar of the Dead is a short story by Henry James, first published in his collection Terminations in 1895. A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores...

Christopher Newman, an essentially good-hearted but rather gauche American businessman embarks on his first tour of Europe. As he falls in love with a young widow from an...

Wealthy Roger Lawrence adopts twelve-year-old Nora Lambert after her father kills himself in the hotel room next to Lawrence’s. Roger had refused financial assistance to the...

This is Henry James’ first full-length novel.Roderick Hudson, egotistical, beautiful and an exceptionally gifted sculptor, but poor, is taken from New England to Rome by...

When Beale and Ida Farange are divorced, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between them, spending six months of the year...

Confidence, one of Henry James’s early and lesser-known novels, is the charming story of a pair of American expatriates—an artist and a scientist—traveling...

A Volta do Parafuso - The Turn of the Screw, de Henry James enquadra-se bem no gênero novela, em que o autor foi particularmente bem-sucedido, constituindo um paradigma desse...

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is considered among the best ghost stories ever written in English. It was published in serial form in Collier's Magazine in 1898, but written...

Glasses by Henry James. Glasses is story by Henry James. A young woman whose only asset is a supremely beautiful face is about to make a society marriage until her fiance...

A Passionate Pilgrim by Henry James, first published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1871. The story was the earliest fiction that James included in the New York Edition...