Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 an…
What Maisie Knew
Read by Elizabeth Klett
When Beale and Ida Farange are divorced, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between…
The Turn of the Screw
Read by Nikolle Doolin
The Turn of the Screw is a novella written by Henry James. It is a ghost story that was originally published in 1898. A nameless governess…
The Golden Bowl
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some cri…
Washington Square
Read by Dawn
Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Ma…
The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 1
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The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 …
Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts
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Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne, a compatr…
The Europeans
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
The Europeans: A sketch is a short novel by Henry James, published in 1878. It is essentially a comedy contrasting the behaviour and attitud…
The Art of Fiction
Read by Julie VW
A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…
The Wheel of Time
Read by David Wales
Fanny Knocker is a very, very plain young woman. She is introduced to the extremely handsome, thoroughly impoverished, younger son of an old…
The Portrait of a Lady Vol 2
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The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 …
Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts (version 2 dramatic reading)
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Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James first appearing in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1879, and in book form the following year. …
The Wings of the Dove
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"The Wings of the Dove," published in 1902, represents to my memory a very old--if I shouldn't perhaps rather say a very young--mo…
The Jolly Corner
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
"The Jolly Corner," published in 1908, is considered by many to be a ghost story ranking second only to "The Turn of the Scre…
The Bostonians, Vol. 1 & 2
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This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chance…
The Liar
Read by Deborah Percy
A successful painter reconnects with the woman he once loved during a visit to an English country house. His surprise is great when he learn…
The Beast in the Jungle
Read by Rob James
'The Beast in the Jungle' is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection, The Better Sort. Almost universally c…
The Real Thing
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
The Real Thing is, on one level, a somewhat ironic tale of an artist and two rather particular models. Yet it also raises questions about th…
The Figure in the Carpet
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
The story ostensibly concerns a young literary critics who greatly admires the writer Hugh Vereker. A meeting with Vereker, however, shows h…
Roderick Hudson
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Published as a serial in 1875, Roderick Hudson is James's first important novel. The theme of Americans in Europe, so important in much of J…
The Princess Casamassima
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Princess Casamassima can be read on several levels: first, as a political and social novel, exploring the anarchistic and revolutionary unde…
In the Cage
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
In the Cage is a novella by Henry James, first published as a book in 1898. This long story centers on an unnamed London telegraphist. She d…
The Awkward Age
Read by Anna Simon
Nanda Brookenham is coming of age, and thus 'coming out' in London society - which leads to complications in her family's social set in Lond…
The Reverberator
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Another Jamesian look at Americans in Paris. What happens when a reporter for an American scandal sheet (The Reverberator) is looking for a …
Sir Dominick Ferrand
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
"Levity" is not a word often applied to Henry James, but this story has about it an attractively lighthearted quality. It tells of…
The Chaperon
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
What on earth is a girl to do when London society has convicted her mother of a dreadful sin and has ostracized her? If blood is thicker tha…
A London Life
Read by Deborah Percy
A devoted sister attempts to check her sibling's scandalous behavior in the world of British high society. A delightful comedy of Anglo-Ame…
Owen Wingrave
Read by David Wales
A young man of good family with a long distinguished military tradition indicates that he will not follow his ancestors' path into the army.…
The Lesson of the Master
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
A promising young writer meets an older man whose works have inspired him, as well as a highly intelligent and attractive young woman, at a …
The Last of the Valerii
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
An unnamed American painter resident in Rome serves as narrator in this story, watching as his god-daughter Martha, becomes the wife of Prin…
The Papers
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Today the world is awash with “celebrities” whose only accomplishment is being celebrated by the media in all its various forms. Henry James…
Sir Edmund Orme
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James wrote a number of ghost stories -- The Turn of the Screw being the most famous. Did he believe in ghosts himself, as did many of…
The Birthplace
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Neither the name of Shakespeare nor that of Stratford appears directly in this short piece by James, and yet both are absolutely central to …
The Altar of the Dead
Read by Dorlene Kaplan
A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores how the protagonist tries to keep the remembrance of his dead friends, …
A Small Boy and Others
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A Small Boy and Others is a book of autobiography by Henry James published in 1913. The book covers James's earliest years and discusses his…
The Sacred Fount
Read by skoval
Published in 1901, The Sacred Fount delves into the interior observations and obsessions of one Englishman during a weekend gathering in the…
Collaboration
Read by David Wales
It is Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War (1870--Germany won--the French Second Republic collapsed--France embittered). A French po…
The Third Person
Read by Anthony Orr
The Third Person is an amusing spoof on spooking. The 'ghostly man about the house' in whom two increasingly competitive maiden ladies come …
The Coxon Fund
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This novella explores the relationship between Frank Saltram, a charismatic speaker who is also a freeloader; Ruth Anvoy, a young American w…