Henry James
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Major-General Sir Henry James FRS MRIA (1803–1877) was a Royal Engineers officer who served as the director-general of the Ordnance Survey, the British Government mapping agency, from 1854 to 1875.
Books
The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1
I. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SHORT-STORY II. THE APPARITION OF MRS. VEAL. By Daniel Defoe (1661-1731) III. THE MYSTERIOUS BRIDE. By James Hogg (1770-1835) IV. THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER. By Washington Irving (1783-1859) V. [DR. HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENT]( By Nathaniel Hawthorne (1807-1864) VI. [THE PURLOINED LETTER]( By Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) VII. RAB AND HIS FRIENDS. By Dr. John Brown (1810-1882) VIII. THE BOOTS AT THE HOLLY-TREE INN. By Charles Dickens (1812-1870) IX. A STORY OF SEVEN DEVILS. By Frank R. Stockton. (1834-1902) X. A DOG'S TALE. By Mark Twain (1835) XI. THE OUTCASTS OF POKER FLAT. By Bret Harte (1839-1902) XII. THE THREE STRANGERS. By Thomas Hardy (1840) XIII. JULIA BRIDE. By Henry James (1843) XIV. A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT. By Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
The American
The New York stories of Henry James
"Henry James led a wandering life, which took him far from his native shores, but he continued to think of New York City, where his family had settled for several years during his childhood, as his hometown. Here Colm Toibin brings together for the first time all the stories that James set in New York City. Written over the course of James's career and ranging from the deliciously tart comedy of the early "An International Episode" to the surreal and haunted corridors of "The Jolly Corner," and including Washington Square, the poignant novella considered by many (though not, as it happens, by the author himself) to be one of James's finest achievements, the nine fictions gathered here reflect James's varied talents and interests as well as the deep and abiding preoccupations of his imagination."--Jacket.