Delphi Complete Works of Henry James

by Henry James

Regarded as one of the key figures of nineteenth century realism, Henry James has become famous for his novels and tales that explore the clash between the Old World Europeans and New World Americans. Using an innovative method of writing from a character’s point of view within a tale, James’ intellectual works explore issues related to consciousness and perception, producing his own inimitable ‘impressionist’ style. Delphi Classics is proud to present the complete works of this important master for the first time in publishing history, providing every novel, tale, non-fiction work and a wealth of bonus material.

Product Description:
* concise introductions to the novels and other texts
* all 23 novels – even the rare work THE OTHER HOUSE, often missed out of collections
* the unfinished novels THE IVORY TOWER and THE SENSE OF THE PAST
* the first rare novel WATCH AND WARD, which James chose to later ignore
* the novel THE WHOLE FAMILY, which James collaborated on with 11 other authors
* All 112 of the novellas and short stories with BOTH chronological and alphabetical contents tables
* includes James’ rare plays
* EVEN includes the very RARE play GUY DOMVILLE – available nowhere else as a digital book. This is the famous play that James was booed at – now you can read it yourself and judge whether he was harshly criticised!
* the complete Travel Writing
* special contents tables for each novel and literary collection – you won’t get lost in this eBook!
* rare Non-Fiction collections and essays
* features James’ three autobiographies, available nowhere else – explore the Great Master’s literary life!
* special BONUS texts of criticism – discover how writers such as Conrad, Woolf and Stevenson viewed James’ works
* many images relating to James and his work
* UPDATED with improved texts, additional images and many corrections
* UPDATED with rare James’ biography on his sculptor friend: WILLIAM WETMORE STORY AND HIS FRIENDS
* scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres



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 Unfinished Novels
THE IVORY TOWER
THE SENSE OF THE PAST

The Tales
LIST OF TALES IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF TALES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The Plays
PYRAMUS AND THISBE
STILL WATERS
A CHANGE OF HEART
DAISY MILLER
TENANTS
DISENGAGED
THE ALBUM
THE REPROBATE
GUY DOMVILLE
SUMMERSOFT
THE HIGH BID
THE OUTCRY

The Travel Writing
TRANSATLANTIC SKETCHES
A LITTLE TOUR IN FRANCE
ENGLISH HOURS
THE AMERICAN SCENE
ITALIAN HOURS

The Non-Fiction
FRENCH NOVELISTS AND POETS
HAWTHORNE
PORTRAITS OF PLACES
PARTIAL PORTRAITS
ESSAYS IN LONDON AND ELSEWHERE
PICTURE AND TEXT
WILLIAM WETMORE STORY AND HIS FRIENDS
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
NOTES ON NOVELISTS
WITHIN THE RIM AND OTHER ESSAYS
NOTES AND REVIEWS
THE ART OF THE NOVEL
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Genres: Classics, Fiction, Collections, Travel, Plays, Short Stories, Literature

25451 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 12, 2009

About the author

Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
He is best known for his novels dealing with the social and marital interplay between émigré Americans, the English, and continental Europeans, such as The Portrait of a Lady. His later works, such as The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl were increasingly experimental. In describing the internal states of mind and social dynamics of his characters, James often wrote in a style in which ambiguous or contradictory motives and impressions were overlaid or juxtaposed in the discussion of a character's psyche. For their unique ambiguity, as well as for other aspects of their composition, his late works have been compared to Impressionist painting.
His novella The Turn of the Screw has garnered a reputation as the most analysed and ambiguous ghost story in the English language and remains his most widely adapted work in other media. He wrote other highly regarded ghost stories, such as "The Jolly Corner".
James published articles and books of criticism, travel, biography, autobiography, and plays. Born in the United States, James largely relocated to Europe as a young man, and eventually settled in England, becoming a British citizen in 1915, a year before his death. James was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912, and 1916. Jorge Luis Borges said "I have visited some literatures of East and West; I have compiled an encyclopedic compendium of fantastic literature; I have translated Kafka, Melville, and Bloy; I know of no stranger work than that of Henry James."

Reviews

[Ronald Wendling · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a review of the second major James novel in the the Complete Works, The American:

In this novel James continues his exploration of the American versus the European character. His hero, Christopher Newman, has had so much success making money in the wide open spaces of later nineteenth-century America that he has pretty much had his fill of that enterprise. Like Rowland Mallet in James’ previous novel, Roderick Hudson, Newman is content to lounge around Europe in search of something more substantial in his life, though just what he is not quite sure. He buys bad copies of paintings in the Louvre and surveys the art objects in the houses of the Parisian aristocracy, but he brings to this search more of a market mentality than anything like aesthetic taste. Even his pursuit of Claire de Cintre, the daughter of an age old Parisian family, is less that of a gallant lover than of a determined shopper.

James’ experiment in merging the moral practicality of the American with the aesthetic sensibility of the European succeeds no better here than in Roderick Hudson. The painfully civilized family Newman longs to marry into clutters up its stifling rooms with beautiful possessions serving no particular purpose and its conversation with merely clever witticisms. Whatever his limits, Newman has at least been useful to the world, and may be so again, and he talks openly and candidly. By comparison the world weary Parisian aristocrats he courts are mostly tiresome, even corrupt, and the less well off are either morally ineffectual or merely on the make.

[Sean]

Reading The Bostonians.

[keereads · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Liza]

Finally reading (all?) the tales!