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Sir Dominick Ferrand
Levity is not a word often applied to Henry James, but this story has about it an attractively lighthearted quality. It tells of Peter Baron, a poor, young struggling writer of adequate, if not transcendent, talent, who lives in a dreary London boarding house inhabited also by a mysteriously clairvoyant and beautiful young widow, with […]
The Sacred Fount
The Sacred Fount is a novel by Henry James, first published in 1901. This strange, often baffling book concerns an unnamed narrator who attempts to discover the truth about the love lives of his fellow guests at a weekend party in the English countryside. He spurns the “detective and keyhole” methods as ignoble, and instead […]
A London Life and Other Tales
A London Life is a novella by Henry James, first published in Scribner’s Magazine in 1888. The plot revolves around a crumbling marriage and its impact on many other people, especially Laura Wing, the sister of the soon-to-be-divorced wife. Laura is a classic Jamesian “central consciousness,” whose reflections and emotions color the presentation of the […]
Confidence
Confidence is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in Scribner’s Monthly in 1879 and then as a book later the same year. This light and somewhat awkward comedy centers on artist Bernard Longueville, scientist Gordon Wright, and the sometimes inscrutable heroine, Angela Vivian. The plot rambles through various romantic entanglements before […]
The Marriages
The Marriages by Henry James is about the attitude of Adela who do not like the presence of Mrs. Churcley that will replace her mother positions who had died six months earlier. Adela trying to find ways so Mrs. Churchley can not married to his father. But, Colonel Chart and Mrs. Churchley are looks like […]
What Maisie Knew
What Maisie Knew is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Chap-Book and (revised and abridged) in the New Review in 1897 and then as a book later that year. It tells the story of the sensitive daughter of divorced, irresponsible parents. The book follows the title character from earliest […]
The Woodlanders
The Woodlanders is a tragic novel explores the adultery in the then England while divorce was not legalized. Grace Melbury’s childhood love and romance with Giles Winterborne takes a break as her father felt Giles’ financial status would ruin her life. Edgar Fitzpiers, a doctor persuades Grace’s father to get her married. As their life […]
A Pair of Blue Eyes
Thomas hardy’ s another tragic novel A Pair of Blue Eyes, explores the life of Elfride Swancourt, who was unfortunate to marry an elderly man, in-spite of being loved by Stephen Smith and Henry Knight in her early years. Henry Knight, a relative of Elfride’s step mother wish to marry her. However knowing her early […]
Under the Greenwood Tree
Thomas Hardy’s pastoral novel Under The Greenwood Tree explores the triangle romance between School mistress Fancy Day, Church musician Dick Dewy and the vicar Maybold. While Fancy Day’s beauty made Dick to be longing for her, Maybold loved her skills of playing modern organ music. Initially Fancy falls in love with Dick and gets engaged […]
Satyricon
Satyricon is one of the oldest fiction work of Roman courtier Gaius Petronius Arbiter. While the most of the original manuscript is not intact, this work is narrated by the key character Encolpius and his efforts to retain his servant Giton from his friend Asciltos, who happened to be in intimate relationship with him. Though […]