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The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as, on Christmas Eve in an old house, a strange tale should essentially be, I rem...

IN TWO PARTS The text is that of the first American appearance in book form, 1879.

PREFACE "_The Portrait of a Lady_" was, like "_Roderick Hudson_," begun in Florence, during three months spent there in the spring of 1879.

CHAPTER I What determined the speech that startled him in the course of their encounter scarcely matters, being probably but some words spoken by himself quite without intention--spoken as they l...

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New York Edition (1909).

First American book edition, Macmillan and Co., 1888.

CHAPTER XXVIII On the morrow, in the evening, Lord Warburton went again to see his friends at their hotel, and at this establishment he learned that they had gone to the opera.

CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI ...

CHAPTER I "Every one asks me what I 'think' of everything," said Spencer Brydon; "and I make answer as I can--begging or dodging the question, putting them off with any nonsense.

1904 BOOK FIRST: THE PRINCE PART FIRST I The Prince had always liked his London, when it had come to him; he was one of the modern Romans who find by the Tha...

Published November 1909 PREFACE The chapters of which this volume is composed have with few exceptions already been collected, and were then associated with others commemorative of other impre...

The litigation seemed interminable and had in fact been complicated; but by the decision on the appeal the judgement of the divorce-court was confirmed as to the assignment of the child.

I MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON 1921 _First Published in_ 1886 BOOK FIRST I "Olive will come down in about ten minutes; she told me to tell you that.

CHAPTER I It had occurred to her early that in her position--that of a young person spending, in framed and wired confinement, the life of a guinea-pig or a magpie--she should know a great many p...

VOLUME I NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1902 Copyright, 1902, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS ---- Published, August, 1902 TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK BO...

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CHAPTER I. Rowland Mallet had made his arrangements to sail for Europe on the first of September, and having in the interval a fortnight to spare, he determined to spend it with his cousin Cecilia...

September 5th, 1879.

Contents: Brooksmith The Real Thing The Story of It Flickerbridge Mrs. Medwin BROOKSMITH We are scattered now, the friends of the late Mr. Oliver Offord; but whenever we chance to meet I...

CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER I A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a ...

It will be necessary, for several reasons, to give this short sketch the form rather of a critical essay than of a biography.

PREFACE I recall with perfect ease the idea in which "The Awkward Age" had its origin, but re-perusal gives me pause in respect to naming it.

ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1914 COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Published March, 1914 ILLUSTRATIONS Pencil-drawn portrait of William James by himself, about...

produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) [Illustration: _Henry James._ _1912._] /* THE LETTERS OF HENRY JAMES SELECTED AND EDITED BY PERCY LUBBOCK VOL...

We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece--the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched the high level of perfec...

VOLUME II NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1909 Copyright, 1902 and 1909 by Charles Scribner's Sons BOOK SIXTH THE WINGS OF THE DOVE I "I say, you know, Kate--you _did_ stay!"

1885 I saw her only four times, but I remember them vividly; she made an impression upon me.

I Mrs. Gereth had said she would go with the rest to church, but suddenly it seemed to her that she should not be able to wait even till church-time for relief: breakfast, at Waterbath, was a pun...

CHAPTER I It was in the early days of April; Bernard Longueville had been spending the winter in Rome.

II MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON 1921 _First published in 1886_ BOOK SECOND (_Continued_) XXIV A little more than an hour after this he stood in the parlour o...

I In the attempt to place together some particulars of the early life of William James and present him in his setting, his immediate native and domestic air, so that any future gathered memorials...

MacMillan and Co., Limited St. Martin's Street, London 1921 PREFACE I profess a certain vagueness of remembrance in respect to the origin and growth of _The Tragic Muse_, which appeared in ...

1896 Contents The Figure in the Carpet Glasses The Next Time The Way it Came THE FIGURE IN THE CARPET I I had done a few things and earned a few pence--I had perhaps even had time ...

NOTES ON NOVELISTS WITH SOME OTHER NOTES EDITOR'S NOTE _The following pages represent all that Henry James lived to write of a volume of autobiographical reminiscences to which he had given t...

PART I Four years ago--in 1874--two young Englishmen had occasion to go to the United States.

NOW FIRST COLLECTED INTRODUCTION BY LE ROY PHILLIPS COMPILER OF "A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE WRITINGS OF HENRY JAMES" BOSTON THE BALL PUBLISHING COMPANY 1908 _Copyright, 1908_ BY THE BALL PUBLISHING CO.

London MACMILLAN AND CO.

I Intending to sail for America in the early part of June, I determined to spend the interval of six weeks in England, to which country my mind's eye only had as yet been introduced.

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1910 [Transcriber's Note: After posting it was discovered that there were several missing pages from the section titled "Mora Montravers".

I It was an occasion, I felt--the prospect of a large party--to look out at the station for others, possible friends and even possible enemies, who might be going.

Florence, _April 5th_, 1874.--They told me I should find Italy greatly changed; and in seven-and-twenty years there is room for changes.

CHAPTER I Yes indeed, I say to myself, pen in hand, I can keep hold of the thread and let it lead me back to the first impression.

was the most complete presentation that had yet been made of the gospel of art; it was a kind of æsthetic war-cry.

Byhenry James I The view from the terrace at Saint-Germain-en-Laye is immense and famous.

Transcribed from 1893 Macmillan and Co.

1911 BOOK FIRST I "NO, my lord," Banks had replied, "no stranger has yet arrived.

Henry James 1922 I It seemed to them at first, the offer, too good to be true, and their friend's letter, addressed to them to feel, as he said, the ground, to sound them as to inclinations and...