A Bundle of Letters
A short comic story by Henry James, set in 1879 and written in epistolary form. Several witnesses recount the same event, and we see how perspectives differ. The work is part of the collection El último de...
JAMES, Henry
The Lesson of the Master
Paul Overt is a young writer who wishes to meet a famous author, Saint George. A mutual friend, whom Paul appreciates for her beauty and grace in conversation, makes the introduction at a party they both...
Washington Square
Novel set in New York, at the end of the 19th century. Dr. Sloper is a prestigious doctor, married to a young woman of high society. He has his clientele among that public. They had a son who died at the...
The american
Published in parts, between 1876 and 1877, the text was revised in 1883. It is one of Henry James' best and most famous novels. Its protagonist, Christopher Newman, is the prototype of the citizen of the...
The Turn of the Screw
A short story about haunting told by a young governess sent to a country house called Bly. She is engaged by the uncle of two orphaned children. She becomes embroiled in the presence of evil, meeting the...
The Aspern Papers
Henry James is one of America’s greatest novelists, a master of psychological realism. This novella relates the efforts of a biographer to obtain the letters of a dead American poet from his former...
The Papers
Maud Blandy and Howard Bight are two young journalists trying to break into the profession; Maud is shy and reserved; Howard is brave, and gives more value to the news that will be succesfull than to the...
The Portrait of a Lady
Isabel Archer is a young woman with a strong desire for freedom and independence. She doesn't have many suitors or close friends. At one point, an unexpected inheritance will give wings to her spirit....