Henry James Books In Order
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Watch and Ward | (1871) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Roderick Hudson | (1875) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The American | (1877) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Europeans | (1878) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Washington Square | (1880) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Confidence | (1880) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Portrait of a Lady | (1881) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bostonians | (1886) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Princess Casamassima | (1886) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Reverberator | (1888) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tragic Muse | (1890) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Spoils of Poynton | (1896) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Other House | (1896) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
What Maisie Knew | (1897) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Awkward Age | (1899) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sacred Fount | (1901) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Wings of the Dove | (1902) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ambassadors | (1903) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Golden Bowl | (1904) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Outcry | (1911) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Ivory Tower | (1917) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sense of the Past | (1917) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
My Friend Bingham | (1867) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Romance of Certain Old Clothes | (1868) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Story of a Masterpiece | (1868) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Passionate Pilgrim | (1871) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
At Isella | (1871) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sweetheart of M. Briseux | (1873) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Madonna of the Future | (1873) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Madame de Mauves | (1874) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Last of the Valerii | (1874) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Adina | (1874) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Osborne's Revenge | (1874) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Professor Fargo | (1874) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Eugene Pickering | (1874) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Benvolio | (1875) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crawfords Consistency | (1876) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
An International Episode | (1876) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Four Meetings | (1877) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Daisy Miller | (1878) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Longstaff's Marriage | (1878) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Diary of a Man of Fifty | (1879) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pension Beaurepas | (1879) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Bundle of Letters | (1879) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Point of View | (1882) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pandora | (1884) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Georgina's Reasons | (1884) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Path of Duty | (1884) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Author of Beltraffio | (1884) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lesson of the Master | (1888) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Patagonia | (1888) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Aspern Papers | (1888) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Pupil | (1891) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sir Edmund Orme | (1891) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Real Thing | (1892) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Greville Fane | (1892) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Owen Wingrave | (1892) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sir Dominick Ferrand | (1892) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Private Life | (1892) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Death of the Lion | (1894) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Coxon Fund | (1894) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Altar of the Dead | (1895) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Figure in the Carpet | (1896) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
John Delavoy | (1898) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
In the Cage | (1898) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Turn of the Screw | (1898) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Paste | (1899) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Great Condition | (1899) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Maud-Evelyn | (1900) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Great Good Place | (1900) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Third Person | (1900) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Broken Wings | (1900) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Tone of Time | (1900) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Beldonald Holbein | (1901) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mrs. Medwin | (1901) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Beast in the Jungle | (1903) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Birthplace | (1903) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Marriages | (1908) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Jolly Corner | (1908) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Bench of Desolation | (1909) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Crapy Cornelia | (1909) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Velvet Glove | (1909) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Modern Warning / The Two Countries | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
Selected Tales | (1866) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Complete Stories, 1864–1874 | (1874) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Complete Stories, 1874–1884 | (1884) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Complete Stories, 1884–1891 | (1891) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghost Stories of Henry James | (1898) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Complete Stories, 1892–1898 | (1898) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Finer Grain | (1910) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Complete Stories, 1898–1910 | (1910) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected Poems of Henry James | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Plays
Publication Order of' Memoirs Non-Fiction Books
A Small Boy and Others | (1913) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Notes of a Son and Brother | (1914) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Middle Years | (1917) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
The Novels of George Eliot | (1866) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
How to Play Golf | (1869) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Guest's Confession | (1872) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855–1872: Volume 1 | (1872) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Parisian Sketches: Letters to the New York Tribune, 1875-1876 | (1875) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872–1876: Volume 2 | (1876) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872–1876: Volume 3 | (1876) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Suburbs of London | (1877) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hawthorne | (1879) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
French Poets and Novelists | (1883) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Letters of Henry James, Volume II | (1883) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Little Tour in France | (1884) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Partial Portraits | (1888) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Terminations | (1895) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Painter's Eye | (1897) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Better Sort | (1903) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
English Hours | (1905) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Traveling in Italy with Henry James | (1907) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Italian Hours | (1909) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Art of the Novel | (1909) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner | (1914) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Notes on Novelists with Some Other Notes by Henry James | (1914) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Correspondence of Henry James and Henry Adams, 1877-1914 | (1914) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected Letters of Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 1882 1915 | (1915) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Henry James on Culture | (1917) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Letters to A.C. Benson and Auguste Monod | (1930) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
William and Henry James: Selected Letters | (1955) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Selected Literary Criticism | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Collected Travel Writings | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The American Scene | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On Provence | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Within the Rim and Other Essays | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Anthologies
The Whole Family | (1908) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
50 Great Short Stories | (1952) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Short Story Masterpieces: 35 Classic American and British Stories from the First Half of the 20th Century | (1954) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Points of View | (1956) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
50 Great American Short Stories | (1963) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Magical Realist Fiction | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Writing New York | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
50 Classic Novellas | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Phantom Coach | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best Short Stories Volume III: Chosen in 1914 by the Most Prominent Authors of the Day | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
That Glimpse of Truth | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Writers: Their Lives and Works | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories | (2021) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages | (2022) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Henry James was an American writer who was the second child of Henry James, Sr. and Mary Walsh Robertson. His father Henry James Sr. was a son of an Irish immigrant who was very wealthy and to him education was the most important thing. Henry James was born on April 15, 1843, New York, U.S and died in London, England February 28, 1916. He had four siblings among them was the firstborn William James who was a psychologist and a pragmatist philosopher.
Henry James spent his childhood days living in New York before moving to abroad, where they were schooled by governesses and tutors who tutored them literature and languages. They traveled most of their years in Italy, England, Switzerland, Germany and France.
As a teenager, Henry James was a shy boy and addicted to reading books. He briefly enrolled to Harvard Law School at the age of 19 and by the time he was 20years he published his first story called A Tragedy of Error in 1864, it was about a wife who plotted to murder her husband but that resulted to the death of her secret lover.
Some of his other short stories and novels include The American (1877), The Europeans (1878), The Pension Beaurepas (1881) etc. In his mid-20s he was recognized as one of the most creative skillful short story writer in America. Henry James dedicated himself in writing book reviews, stories and articles for some years before he decided to attempt to write a novel.
His first novel was watch and ward (1871) which is about Roger Lawrence who decides to adopt 12year old Nora Lambert, after his father commits suicide in his hotel room. Roger adapts her since he feels remorse for refusing to give financial assistance to her father. Nora is not that pretty as a child but she grows up to be a beautiful lady. This is a generally touching story of lost love and unfulfilled lives, which is seen as you continue to read the ventures that Nora takes till she ends up in clutches. The novel was the start of Henry James success as a writer and went on till 28 February 1916 where he died of pneumonia after suffering from stroke a few months before his death. Henry James died as a bachelor and as a British citizen. He had lived in England for almost 40years and during his last years he became a British citizen in 1915, because he was very disappointed and unhappy with America when World War 1 broke out and America was reluctant to join the world war 1.
Henry James is mostly known for his famous works like The Portrait of a Lady (1881) and The Turn of the Screw (1898), Daisy Miller (1878), The Bostonians (1886) and The Ambassadors (1903).
The following are some famous books that Henry James wrote, that remain to be popular up to date.
The Portrait of a Lady (1881).
This novel is about a story of a young beautiful American woman called Isabel Archer. As the novel begins we see Isabel has two worthy suitors who are willing to marry her. Lord Warburton who is an aristocrat and he fascinates Isabel though she does not love him and does not feel inclined to him romantically. Then there is Caspar Goodwood whom Isabel is sought of drawn to but she fears that if she got married to him, she would not get her personal freedom. Therefore, she rejects these marriage proposals and decides to travel abroad to her extended family by the help of her rich Aunt called Touchett who takes her to Europe. She seeks to learn to be independent.
While in abroad she meets with Gilbert Osmond who is very charming. She finds herself so irresistibly drawn to him. Gilbert Osmond is an American art collector who lives in Florence. Isabel ends up getting married to him. Unfortunately, it is not a happy ever after marriage. You later on come to learn that Gilbert Osmond only married Isabel because of her inherited wealth left to her by her uncle. Gilbert Osmond and Madame Merle who lived in her uncle’s house, had plotted to steal her wealth which she inherited from her uncle. After their marriage Gilbert Osmond starts to treat her like she is nothing to him.
The book features decisions and challenges that Isabel has to face. The book is so catchy since it makes the reader to feel Isabel’s pain and makes us relate to some of the life experiences of love and betrayal that a reader may have faced at some point. Henry James realistically captures people’s lives with this book. Henry James concluded the first phase of his successful career with this novel The Portrait of a lady which till now is the most popular long fiction.
Daisy Miller (1878).
This is a classic story that is about a young wealthy confident American woman, who is likes having fun and does whatever pleases her. She travels to Europe with her young brother and her mother. She meets with Frederick Winterbourne who has been living in Geneva. Frederick Winterbourne finds her to be very attractive and is smitten by her beauty. Daisy Miller is always determined to do what she wants, whenever she wants to do it since she comes from a wealthy family. Daisy Miller is totally everything any woman from that time should not be; she loves attention, flirting and lots of entertainment. She is attracted to Mr. Giovanelli who is a singer/musician with no social standing. The story is set in Europe. Daisy miller’s life unfolds as the story goes on and everything ends up so badly for her.
Henry James brings in cultural differences, difference in the society class, and shows money cannot be able to buy everything. This makes the story even more interesting to read since you can automatically relate it to your life because it brings out various themes of innocence versus experience, cultural intersection, social relationships, Americans abroad and fate. This book made Henry James internationally famous and contributed to his success.
In conclusion, Henry James is mostly known for his themes of consciousness. He wrote a total of 22 novels including two which he died before finishing and 112 tales etc. His writing mostly mix characters that are from different worlds. Henry James novels are mostly about passionate plea for freedom, freedom of development and different cultures. Many of Henry James novels have been filmed in the 20th century by the team of James Ivory and Ismail Merchant.
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