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  • Daisy Miller

    A Study

    by Henry James ...
    Series series Literary Classics
    The novella that made Henry James famous and offended half of Boston. Daisy Miller, a fresh and pretty American abroad, strolls out unchaperoned with a handsome Italian and cannot understand why the expatriate ladies of Rome close their doors to her. James poses a single, unanswerable question — is she innocent or merely careless, and does the distinction matter to a society that has already ... Read more

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  • Glasses

    by Henry James ...
    Series series Literary Classics
    One of Henry James's most pitiless tales. A young woman of extraordinary beauty is slowly going blind and refuses the spectacles that would preserve what sight remains — because they would spoil the face that is her only capital in the marriage market. Narrated by a portrait painter who is complicit in the vanity he records, this 1896 story cuts to the bone of what beauty is worth as currency. ... Read more

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  • The Pupil

    by Henry James ...
    Series series Literary Classics
    Henry James counted The Pupil among his finest tales. A poor young tutor is engaged by a shabby-genteel family perpetually drifting through the hotels of Europe, and discovers that his pupil — a frail, precocious boy — is the cleverest person in the household and the only one ashamed of what the others are. The boy's education is learning exactly what his parents are; the tutor's is discovering ... Read more

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  • Roderick Hudson

    by Henry James ...
    Series series Literary Classics
    Roderick Hudson is Henry James's first true novel, written at thirty-two, and already the great theme of his life is here: the gifted American set loose in Europe with no notion of the price. A wealthy patron carries the brilliant young sculptor Roderick Hudson to Rome to make him great — and watches him discover instead women, idleness, and the limits of his own genius. This edition presents the ... Read more

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  • The Beast in the Jungle

    by Henry James ...
    Series series Literary Classics
    Perhaps the most quietly terrifying story Henry James ever wrote — and nothing happens in it. John Marcher is certain he has been singled out for some rare and dreadful fate, and can do nothing but wait; May Bartram agrees to wait beside him, and the years drain away in drawing rooms. The beast has been crouching in the jungle the whole time, and the reader sees it long before Marcher does. This ... Read more

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  • The Turn of the Screw

    by Henry James ...
    Series series Gothic & Horror
    Henry James's The Turn of the Screw is the most argued-over ghost story in the language. A young governess, alone with two strange and beautiful children in a remote country house, becomes convinced that two dead servants are still present — and mean to possess her charges. James leaves no way to decide whether the horror is real or the product of her own mind, and that unresolved dread is the ... Read more

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  • Confidence

    by Henry James ...
    Series series Literary Classics
    A lighter, quicker Henry James, written in 1879 between the early tales and the great novels. At the spa town of Baden-Baden, one young man asks his friend to inspect the woman he is courting and report whether she will do as a wife — and the report he receives changes the course of both their lives. It is James's most playful treatment of the subject he never abandoned: what happens when a man ... Read more

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  • The Portrait of a Lady

    by Henry James ...
    Series series Literary Classics
    Henry James considered The Portrait of a Lady his most perfect design, and it remains one of the supreme novels in English. Isabel Archer, a spirited young American, inherits a fortune she never sought and is thereby set free to choose her own life — and chooses, for the noblest of reasons and the worst of judgment, a marriage that closes around her like a trap. Among three suitors and an ... Read more

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  • The Turn of the Screw

    by Henry James ...
    Step into one of the greatest Gothic ghost stories ever written with The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. When a young governess arrives at a remote English estate to care for two children, she becomes convinced that supernatural forces are at work. Blending psychological suspense with haunting ambiguity, this literary masterpiece continues to intrigue and captivate readers. Explore This Gothic ... Read more

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  • The Turn of the Screw

    A Governess, Two Children, and Ghosts No One Else Can See

    by Henry James ...
    She was hired to protect two children. She becomes convinced something dead is trying to reach them.A young governess arrives at a remote English estate to care for two strangely composed orphans — and soon becomes certain that the ghosts of two former servants are stalking the grounds, intent on corrupting the children in her care. As her certainty hardens into obsession, Henry James never lets ... Read more

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  • The Turn of the Screw

    by Henry James ...
    A young governess arrives at Bly, a country home in Essex, England, to care for Miles and Flora, two precocious and pure children. But as ghostly visions take shape, the obsessively protective governess soon fears for the safety of her wards—only to wonder if these hauntings are a conjuring of her own imagination. In challenging what we see—and what we believe we see—in the dark of the night, The ... Read more

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  • 30 Occult and Supernatural masterpieces in one book

    by Washington Irving, Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Louisa May Alcott, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Nesbit, John Meade Falkner, Henry James, H. G. Wells, Montague Rhodes James, Arnold Bennett, Henry Rider Haggard, William Hope Hodgson, Virginia Woolf, Master Hendrick Hudson. Certain, Pastor Tappau's, Lefebvre, De Lacy ...
    Enter a world of mystery, haunted places, ancient legends, and supernatural suspense in this extraordinary collection of classic tales. Discover "30 Occult and Supernatural Masterpieces in One Book," a captivating anthology that brings together thirty timeless works of Gothic fiction, supernatural horror, occult mysteries, and eerie storytelling. Featuring some of the most influential voices in ... Read more

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