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  HENRY JAMES
b.1843 d.1916
Highly regarded American (later British) author of early modernist fiction, often producing comedies of manners featuring the American abroad.
 
Novels
The Sense of the Past, Collins, 1917
(An unfinished novel. A man travels back to the early 19th century.)
ditto, Scribner's (U.S.), 1917
 
Short Stories
A Passionate Pilgrim, Osgood (U.S.), 1875
(Includes: The Romance of Certain Old Clothes: Perdita makes her husband swear that when she is dead he will keep her wardrobe for their daughter and he agrees. After her death his new wife insists he breaks this promise, and the new wife is found dead in the clothing chest. The Last of the Valerii: A classical statue is unearthed at an excavation and causes Marco to start pagan worship.)
ditto, Macmillan, 1879 (3 vols)
 
The Lesson of the Master; The Marriages; The Pupil; Brooksmith; The Solution; Sir Edmund Orme, Macmillan (U.S.), 1892
(Includes Sir Edmund Orme: The ghost of a spurned lover is only visible to those who are in love.)
ditto, Macmillan, 1892
 
The Real Thing and Other Tales, Macmillan (U.S.), 1893
(Includes: Nona Vincent: A disastrous leading lady in a play meets the woman who was the inspiration for the heroine she is playing. Sir Dominick Ferrand: A young woman realises by supernatural means that a young author is going to publish a cache of discreditable letters.)
ditto, Macmillan, 1893
 
The Private Life; The Wheel of Time; Lord Beaupre; The Visits; Collaboration Owen Wingrave, Osgood McIlvane, 1893
(Includes: The Private Life: An ambiguous supernatural/psychological tale. Owen Wingrave: A night in a haunted room.)
ditto, Harpers (U.S.), 1893
 
Terminations; The Death of the Lion; The Coxon Fund; The Middle Years; The Altar of the Dead, Heinemann (London), 1895
(Includes The Altar of the Dead: An ambiguous supernatural/psychological tale.)
ditto, Harper (New York), 1895
 
Embarrassments; The Figure in the Carpet; Glasses; The Next Time; The Way it Came, Heinemann, 1896
(Includes: The Way It Came (later entitled The Friend of the Friends): A subtle tale in which a woman could not have visited a young man because she has suddenly died.)
ditto, Macmillan (U.S.), 1896
 
The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw; Covering End, Heinemann, 1898
(Includes: The Turn of the Screw: James's classic, subtle story in which two dead servants appear to be trying to gain control over two children.)
ditto, Macmillan (U.S.), 1898
 
The Soft Side, Methuen, 1900
(Includes: The Real Right Thing: A biographer is haunted by the spirit of his dead subject. The Great Good Place: An author on the verge of a breakdown has his burden assumed by another and he finds himself in an idyllic situation. When he is finally ready to return he finds that he has been away only a few hours. The Third Person: Two old ladies are haunted by a disreputable young man, and both have very different means of putting his spirit to rest. Maud-Evelyn: An ambiguous supernatural/psychological tale. )
ditto, Macmillan (U.S.), 1900
 
The Better Sort, Methuen (London), 1903
(Includes The Beast in the Jungle: An ambiguous supernatural/psychological tale.)
ditto, Scribner's (New York), 1903
 
The Travelling Companions, Boni and Liveright (New York), 1919
(Includes: De Gray: A Romance: A family curse appears to be coming true.)
 
The Ghostly Tales of Henry James, Rutgers Univ. Press (U.S.), 1948 [1949]
(Includes: The Romance of Certain Old Clothes: Perdita makes her husband swear that when she is dead he will keep her wardrobe for their daughter and he agrees. After her death his new wife insists he breaks this promise, and the new wife is found dead in the clothing chest. De Gray: A Romance: A family curse appears to be coming true. The Last of the Valerii: A classical statue is unearthed at an excavation and causes Marco to start pagan worship. Sir Edmund Orme: The ghost of a spurned lover is only visible to those who are in love. Nona Vincent: A disastrous leading lady in a play meets the woman who was the inspiration for the heroine she is playing. Sir Dominick Ferrand: A young woman realises by supernatural means that a young author is going to publish a cache of discreditable letters. Owen Wingrave: A night in a haunted room. The Friend of the Friends: A subtle tale in which a woman could not have visited a young man because she has suddenly died. The Turn of the Screw: James's classic, subtle story in which two dead servants appear to be trying to gain control over two children. The Real Right Thing: A biographer is haunted by the spirit of his dead subject. The Great Good Place: An author on the verge of a breakdown has his burden assumed by another and he finds himself in an idyllic situation. When he is finally ready to return he finds that he has been away only a few hours. The Third Person: Two old ladies are haunted by a disreputable young man, and both have very different means of putting his spirit to rest. The Ghostly Rental: A Captain pays off a ghost, but she is later discovered to be living. The Jolly Corner: Brydon is confronted by a ghost who may be his alter-ego.
The collection also contains the ambiguous supernatural/psychological tales: "The Private Life", "The Altar of the Dead", "Maud-Evelyn" and "The Beast in the Jungle".)
ditto, as Stories of the Supernatural, Barrie & Jenkins, 1971
 
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