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Henry James
(1843 - 1916)Henry James was born in New York City. In 1865, he began writing reviews and stories for American journals. 1875 found him settled in Paris, then London, where he was very popular in society. He became a British citizen in 1915. He was a highly prolific writer of novels, short stories, and letters.
With almost 40 films based on his novels, recently, The Golden Bowl (2001) The American (1998) and The Wings of the Dove (1997), he heads the list of world-wide television and cinema credits together with Charles Dickens.
With almost 40 films based on his novels, recently, The Golden Bowl (2001) The American (1998) and The Wings of the Dove (1997), he heads the list of world-wide television and cinema credits together with Charles Dickens.
Non fiction series
Henry James' Memoirs
A Small Boy and Others (1913)
Notes of a Son and a Brother (1914)
The Middle Years (1917)
A Small Boy and Others (1913)
Notes of a Son and a Brother (1914)
The Middle Years (1917)
Novels
Watch and Ward (1871)
Eugene Pickering (1874)
Roderick Hudson (1876)
The American (1877)
The Europeans (1878)
Daisy Miller (1879)
The Diary of Man of Fifty (1879)
An International Episode (1879)
Confidence (1880)
The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
Washington Square (1881)
The Bostonians (1886)
The Princess Casamassima (1886)
The Patagonia (1889)
The Lesson of the Master (1892)
The Private Life (1893)
The Other House (1896)
The Spoils of Poynton (1897)
What Maisie Knew (1897)
In the Cage (1898)
The Turn of the Screw (1898)
The Awkward Age (1899)
A Little Tour in France (1900)
The Sacred Fount (1901)
The Wings of the Dove (1902)
The Ambassadors (1903)
The Golden Bowl (1904)
The Aspern Papers (1908)
The Whole Family (1908) (with others)
The Finer Grain (1910)
The Outcry (1911)
The Ivory Tower (1917)
The Sense of the Past (1917)
Eugene Pickering (1874)
Roderick Hudson (1876)
The American (1877)
The Europeans (1878)
Daisy Miller (1879)
The Diary of Man of Fifty (1879)
An International Episode (1879)
Confidence (1880)
The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
Washington Square (1881)
The Bostonians (1886)
The Princess Casamassima (1886)
The Patagonia (1889)
The Lesson of the Master (1892)
The Private Life (1893)
The Other House (1896)
The Spoils of Poynton (1897)
What Maisie Knew (1897)
In the Cage (1898)
The Turn of the Screw (1898)
The Awkward Age (1899)
A Little Tour in France (1900)
The Sacred Fount (1901)
The Wings of the Dove (1902)
The Ambassadors (1903)
The Golden Bowl (1904)
The Aspern Papers (1908)
The Whole Family (1908) (with others)
The Finer Grain (1910)
The Outcry (1911)
The Ivory Tower (1917)
The Sense of the Past (1917)
Collections
A Passionate Pilgrim (1875)
Transatlantic Sketches (1875)
The Lesson of the Master and Other Tales (1892)
The Real Thing (1893)
Terminations (1893)
Embarrassments (1896)
The Two Magics (1898)
The Soft Side (1900)
Collected Works (1917)
The Travelling Companions (1919)
The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (1945)
The Ghostly Tales of Henry James (1948)
The Aspern Papers and Other Stories (1956)
Complete Tales (1962)
The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels (1962)
Selected Tales (1969)
The Jolly Corner (1970)
Complete Stories 1892-1898 (1976)
Tales of Henry James (1984)
The Beast in the Jungle and Other Stories (1993)
Some Short Stories (2001)
Selected Short Stories of Henry James (2004)
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories (2017)
The Turning (2019)
Transatlantic Sketches (1875)
The Lesson of the Master and Other Tales (1892)
The Real Thing (1893)
Terminations (1893)
Embarrassments (1896)
The Two Magics (1898)
The Soft Side (1900)
Collected Works (1917)
The Travelling Companions (1919)
The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (1945)
The Ghostly Tales of Henry James (1948)
The Aspern Papers and Other Stories (1956)
Complete Tales (1962)
The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Novels (1962)
Selected Tales (1969)
The Jolly Corner (1970)
Complete Stories 1892-1898 (1976)
Tales of Henry James (1984)
The Beast in the Jungle and Other Stories (1993)
Some Short Stories (2001)
Selected Short Stories of Henry James (2004)
The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories (2017)
The Turning (2019)
Plays
Novellas and Short Stories
The Romance of Certain Old Clothes (1868)
The Ghostly Rental (1876)
A Bundle of Letters (1879)
Pandora (1884)
A London Life (1888)
The Pupil (1891)
The Altar of the Dead (1895)
The Figure in the Carpet (1896)
Covering End (1898)
The Beldonald Holbein (1901)
The Story in It (1902)
The Beast in the Jungle (1903)
The Ghostly Rental (1876)
A Bundle of Letters (1879)
Pandora (1884)
A London Life (1888)
The Pupil (1891)
The Altar of the Dead (1895)
The Figure in the Carpet (1896)
Covering End (1898)
The Beldonald Holbein (1901)
The Story in It (1902)
The Beast in the Jungle (1903)
Non fiction
French Poets and Novelists (1875)
English Hours (1905)
The American Scene (1907)
Italian Hours (1909)
Within the Rim and Other Essays (1918)
Henry James Letters to A. C. Benson and Auguste Monod (1969)
A Collection of Critical Essays (1983)
Collected Travel Writings Vol. 2 (1993)
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880-1883: Volume 1 (2016)
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880-1883: Volume 2 (2017)
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1883-1884: Volume 1 (2018)
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1883-1884: Volume 2 (2019)
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1884-1886: Volume 1 (2020)
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1884-1886: Volume 2 (2021)
English Hours (1905)
The American Scene (1907)
Italian Hours (1909)
Within the Rim and Other Essays (1918)
Henry James Letters to A. C. Benson and Auguste Monod (1969)
A Collection of Critical Essays (1983)
Collected Travel Writings Vol. 2 (1993)
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880-1883: Volume 1 (2016)
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1880-1883: Volume 2 (2017)
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1883-1884: Volume 1 (2018)
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1883-1884: Volume 2 (2019)
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1884-1886: Volume 1 (2020)
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1884-1886: Volume 2 (2021)
Omnibus editions
The Turn of the Screw / The Aspern Papers (1935)
The Map of Time / The Turn of the Screw (2011) (with Félix J Palma)
The Sacred Fount / The Wings of the Dove (2018)
The Turn of the Screw / Owen Wingrave (2018)
Daisy Miller / Washington Square (2020)
The Map of Time / The Turn of the Screw (2011) (with Félix J Palma)
The Sacred Fount / The Wings of the Dove (2018)
The Turn of the Screw / Owen Wingrave (2018)
Daisy Miller / Washington Square (2020)
Anthologies containing stories by Henry James
A Second Century of Creepy Stories (1930)
The Mystery Book (1934)
Points of View (1966)
The Premature Burial and Other Tales of Horror (1966)
The 3rd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1968)
Hauntings (1968)
The Other Dimension (1972)
Classic Tales of Horror (1976)
The Giant Book of Horror Stories (1981)
Black Water (1983)
Dark Company (1984)
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984)
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984)
Great Short Stories of the World (1986)
Classic Ghost Stories II (1990)
The Open Door (1990)
Fantastic Tales (1993)
Nursery Crimes (1993)
Angels of Darkness (1995)
Doubles, Dummies and Dolls (1995)
The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories (1995)
American Gothic Tales (1996)
The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998)
Nightshade (2000)
The Mystery Book (1934)
Points of View (1966)
The Premature Burial and Other Tales of Horror (1966)
The 3rd Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1968)
Hauntings (1968)
The Other Dimension (1972)
Classic Tales of Horror (1976)
The Giant Book of Horror Stories (1981)
Black Water (1983)
Dark Company (1984)
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984)
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984)
Great Short Stories of the World (1986)
Classic Ghost Stories II (1990)
The Open Door (1990)
Fantastic Tales (1993)
Nursery Crimes (1993)
Angels of Darkness (1995)
Doubles, Dummies and Dolls (1995)
The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories (1995)
American Gothic Tales (1996)
The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998)
Nightshade (2000)
Short stories
| The Pupil [short story] (1891) | |||
| Sir Edmund Orme (1891) | |||
| Owen Wingrave (1892) | |||
| The Friends of the Friends (1896) | |||
| The Turn of the Screw [short story] (1898) | |||
| The Third Person (1900) | |||
| The Jolly Corner [short story] (1905) |
Henry James recommends
The House of the Seven Gables (1851)
Nathaniel Hawthorne
"A large and generous production, pervaded with that vague hum, that indefinable echo, of the whole multitudinous life of man, which is the real sign of a great work of fiction."
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