By Henry James
Overview
Henry James used to be one of many maximum and so much prolific American authors ever to have lived.
Henry James believed that the quick novel was once definitely the right literary shape, and his achievements right here brilliantly demonstrate his mastery of it.
Noted literary critic Philip Rahv has accrued ten of James’s most vital brief novels to make one wonderful quantity. observed by way of Rahv’s informative statement and willing insights, this assortment includes the subsequent classics:
MADAME DE MAUVES
DAISY MILLER
AN overseas EPISODE
THE SIEGE OF LONDON
LADY BARBERINA
THE writer OF BELTRAFFIO
THE ASPERN PAPERS
THE PUPIL
THE flip OF THE SCREW
THE BEAST within the JUNGLE
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