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Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. This edition includes all ten of his ghost With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or straightforwardly marvellous and the darker areas of the human psyche.

Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught.With an Introduction and Notes by Martin Scofield, University of Kent at Canterbury.

Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind the second is to be kind and the third is to be kind.

If you haven't had that, what have you had? It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

Live all you can - it's a mistake not to.

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. James's most famous short stories include The Turn of the Screw, a ghost story in which the question of childhood corruption obsesses a governess.

Among his masterpieces are Daisy Miller (1879), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Bostonians (1886), The Wings of The Dove (1902), and The Ambassadors (1903). His main themes were the innocence of the New World in conflict with corruption and wisdom of the Old. The novels of Henry James are remarkable for their understanding and sensitively drawn female characters. Before his death in 1916, he also completed his autobiography, which included A Small Boy and Others (1913), Notes of a Son Aand Brother (1914) and The Middle Years, which was published posthumously. During his years in Europe James wrote several novels portraying Americans living abroad.īetween 19 James revised many of his tales and novels for the New York edition of his complete works. His first novel, Watch and Ward (1871), was written on a voyage through Venice and Paris. He published his first short story, A Tragedy of Errors, two years later, and began writing full-time.

The affluence the family inherited from his Irish grandfather allowed James to live in comfort he never made much money from his writing.Īs a young man, James traveled between Europe and America, and studied law at Harvard briefly at the age of nineteen. His father, Henry James Sr, was a wealthy man and a well-known intellectual, whose friends included Thoreau, Emerson and Hawthorne. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843.