Critical essays and excerpts from James' notebooks, letters, and prefaces accompany nine stories that deal with ghosts, tyranny, the impact of Europe on America

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 severa

Henry James’s Daisy Miller was an immediate sensation when it was first published in 1878 and has remained popular ever since. In this novella, the charming b

In this small masterpiece of unrequited love, James, as in his greatest novels, depicts a moral consciousness torn between emotional impulses and the demands of