books by Henry James

books by Henry James

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Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)

Henry James

Penguin Classics, 2003

Classic
Isabel Archer is a young, spirited American who travels to England stay for a bit with her aunt's family. Hungry for adventure and fiercely independent, she figures she'll marry at some point but only when it suits her and only to satisfy herself rather than any ...

Spraycan Art (Street Graphics / Street Art)

Henry Chalfant, James Prigoff

Thames & Hudson, 1987

A work of major significance
As a public art historian, I recently revisited Spraycan Art. I am told that the sales on this book are approaching 200,000 copies. In 1987 it was the first look at the art form as it traveled out of the NYC subways and around the world and although writers today are ...

The Turn of the Screw - Literary Touchstone Classic

Henry James

Prestwick House, Inc., 2006

Turn of the Screw Keeps Turning
This edition provides provacative notes to assist the reader who is not accustomed to the gothic romance genre. Various critical theories are proposed which stimulate attentive reading. My own reading would lean towards the notion that James is satirizing popular ...

Henry Ford Today and Tomorrow - Special Edition of Ford's 1926 Classic

Henry Ford

Productivity Press, 1988

The book that inspired Taiichi Ohno
This is an outstanding book for those folks in manufacturing who are starting out on their "Lean" journey. The book teaches the uninitiated an original thinker's way of recognizing "waste" in manufacturing, and often, how to deal with that waste. Taiichi Ohno took a ...

The Turn of The Screw and Other Short Novels (Signet Classics)

Henry James

Signet Classics, 2007

wow.
Too bad people today are too stupid to read. It appears that if it takes longer than 30 minutes to tell a story from start to finish that it's not interesting.This book is brilliant; it's classic. If you're smart, read it. If you're a moron, watch Sponge Bob.

Great American Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, ...

Dover Publications, 2002

Title
This is actually a very good book to have. It was bought for a class in English Literature, but it has some good stories in it. I would be willing to read some of the non-assigned stories from this book. Best part- its a small book.

Three Books of Occult Philosophy (Llewellyn's Sourcebook)

Henry Cornelius Agrippa, James Freake, ...

Llewellyn Publications, 1992

Grand
This is an amazing work of scholarship, and a mighty and substantial read. Prior to this undertaking, the only available copies of the three books were hard to read, difficult and expensive to obtain facsimiles which cost almost 5x the amount of this more easily ...

Washington Square (Penguin Classics)

Henry James

Penguin Classics, 2007

The Heiress, the Father and the Fortune-hunter.
Very accessible short novel of manners set in Manhattan, New York. Quiet Catherine Sloper is an Heiress. She is not beautiful, intelligent or charming. She is steadfast. Her widowed father is a respected Physician, who had married a rich woman. He is disappointed ...

The Portrait of A Lady (Signet Classics)

Henry James

Signet Classics, 2007

"An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue."
When Isabel Archer, a bright and independent young American, makes her first trip to Europe in the company of her aunt, Mrs. Touchett, who lives outside of London in a 400-year-old estate, she discovers a totally different world, one which does not encourage her ...

The Ambassadors (Penguin Classics)

Henry James

Penguin Classics, 1987

The failure to enjoy
A wealthy US family sends its `ambassadors' to Paris in order to convince an heir to abandon the `life of a pagan' and return home to run the family business. The theme of Henry James's impeccably written and extremely polished prose is what Nietzsche called the ...

Psychology, Seventh Edition

Henry Gleitman, Dan Reisberg, ...

W. W. Norton, 2007

Text for Honors Introductory Psychology
I've used the text for my honors section of Psych 101 and as a source for lecture material in my other sections. IMHO, this the the best textbook for Intro Psych that I have ever come across in terms of the depth of material presented. It is, however, probably too ...

The Golden Bowl (Oxford World's Classics)

Henry James

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

The Golden Bowl: The Meaning of "Value"
Reading THE GOLDEN BOWL by Henry James can be either an exercise in frustration or of exhiliration. If after reading a few pages one deduces the former, then one has allowed an excessively convoluted and ornate prose style to interpose itself between a writer with a ...

The Essential Henry James Collection, 2008

The essential collection for Henry James fans (With an active table of contents): The Turn of the Screw, Portrait of a Lady, Vol. I and II, The Ambassadors, Daisy Miller, Washington Square, What Maisie Knew

The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction (Bantam Classics)

Henry James

Bantam Classics, 1981

Five Excellent Tales from a Master Craftsman
The Turn of the Screw and Washington Square are novellas. Daisy Miller is intermediate in length while The Beast in the Jungle and The Jolly Corner are short stories. All five are among the best short fiction of Henry James. In the introduction Professor R. W. B. ...

Daisy Miller (Penguin Classics)

Henry James

Penguin Classics, 2007

"They are very common...They are the sort of Americans that one does one's duty by not - not accepting."
One of Henry James's earliest novellas, Daisy Miller (1878) follows the activities of a wealthy, and brashly confident, young American woman as she audaciously challenges European society in Vevey, Switzerland, and in Rome, having fun, doing what pleases her, leaving ...