In the The Turn of the Screw a governess is sent to take charge of two orphans. Unsettled by a sense of evil, she thinks that something malevolent is stalking the children. The Aspern Papers tells the tale of a literary historian determined to get his hands on the letters of a great poet.

A young, inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles and Flora, two small children abandoned by their uncles at his grand country house. She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower and his face at the window. It is Peter Quint, the master's dissolute valet, and he has come for little Miles. But Peter Quint is dead. Like the other tales collected here - 'Sir Edmund Orme', 'Owen

Considered by many as one of the finest novels in the English language, The Portrait of a Lady is both a dramatic Victorian tale of betrayal and a wholly modern psychological study of a woman caught in machinations she only comes to understand too late. This new edition usefully tracks the major textual changes James made for his New York Edition.

The narrator is a young governess, sent off to a country house to take charge of two orphaned children. She finds a pleasant house and a comfortable housekeeper, while the children are beautiful and charming. But she soon begins to feel the presence of intense evil.

Henry James's often overlooked but hugely enjoyable wicked humour.

Surrounded by artists, and musicians who constituted her court in Boston as in Venice, Isabella Stewart Gardner was a passionate art collector. Henry James and Palazzo Barbaro had a real affection for her. This title presents letters that add another dimension to what we know of Henry James' relationship with Venice and the Palazzo Barbaro.

When timid and plain Catherine Sloper acquires a dashing and determined suitor, her father, convinced that the young man is nothing more than a fortune-hunter, decides to put a stop to their romance. This novel interweaves the public and private faces of nineteenth-century New York society; it is also a moving study of innocence destroyed.

Includes ten of Henry James' ghost stories. This collection includes stories such as: The Jolly Corner , a story of psychological doubling and Owen Wingrave , which is also a parable of military tradition. It also includes James' novella The Turn of the Screw .

Mrs Gareth, widowed chatelaine of Poynton, is fighting to keep her house with its priceless objets d'art from her son Owen and his lovely, utterly philistine fiancee. When she discovers that her young friend and sympathizer Fleda Vetch is secretly in love with Owen, she thrusts her into the battle-line. The power struggle that ensues between the three women leaves Owen vacillating. What is at ...

Returning to Florence after 25 years of military service, a man of fifty finds himself haunted by memories of a thwarted love affair which took place on the banks of the Arno during his youth. On enquiring after the erstwhile object of his affections, he encounters a young man in amorous pursuit of her daughter.

The plot of this novel revolves around the feminist movement in Boston in the 1870s. F.R. Leavis called it one of the two most brilliant novels in the language. The novel's many allusions to the historical and social background of Boston society are explained in the editorial material.

When Isabel Archer, a young American woman, arrives in Europe, she sees the world as a place of brightness . She turns aside from suitors who offer her their wealth and devotion to follow her own path. But that way leads to disillusionment and Isabel has to make her final choice.

Presents a tale taken from the diary of a governess, who describes her mounting sense of paranoia at the relationship between her two wards and the ghostly figures that haunt the estate. This book offers a reading of a story in which nothing is certain, and madness lurks around every corner.

This is the story of Maisie, who is the six-year-old child of a divorced couple. The Courthas arranged that she shall live with each of her parents for alternate six-month periods. This serves the parents' purpose of spite and they earnestly indoctrinate Maisie with hateful notions of each other.

'You you a nun; you with your beauty defaced and your nature wasted you behind locks and bars! Never, never, if I can prevent it!' A wealthy American man of business descends on Europe in search of a wife to make his fortune complete. In Paris Christopher Newman is introduced to Claire de Cintre, daughter of the ancient House of Bellegarde, and to Valentin, her charming young brother. His bid

A rich American art-collector and his daughter Maggie buy in for themselves and to their greater glory a beautiful young wife and a noble husband. They do not know that Charlotte and Prince Amerigo were formerly lovers, nor that on the eve of the Prince's marriage they had discovered, in a Bloomsbury antique shop, a golden bowl with a secret flaw. When the golden bowl is broken, Maggie must ...

Mrs Gereth is convinced that Fleda Vetch would make the perfect daughter-in-law. Owen Gereth, however, has inconveniently become engaged to the uncultured Mona Brigstock. As a family quarrel unfolds, Fleda is drawn in, yet she remains reluctant to captivate Owen, who seems as attracted to her as she is to him. Is she motivated by scruple or fear?

This volume includes Daisy Miller , Pandora , The Patagonia , and Four Meetings .