Henry James

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry....

American Lambert Strether is sent to Paris on behalf of Mrs. Newsome, his fiancée, to collect her son, Chad. When Strether finds Chad, he discovers an altered man....

Following a violent and messy divorce, young Maisie Farange floats back and forth between her parents, Beale and Ida, who use her as a weapon to torment each other in their ongoing, internecine war....

In what Henry James called a 'trap for the unwary', The Turn of the Screw tells of a nameless young governess sent to a country house to take charge of two orphans, Miles and Flora....  

Wealthy Maggie Verver has everything she could ever ask for - except a husband and a title....

The Turn of the Screw has been described by many critics as the most sophisticated and terrifying ghost story in the English language....

The Ambassadors is the story of early 20th century American Puritanism and how such attitudes restrict the joy of living a full life....

The Turn of the Screw creates a terrifyingly believable impression of innocent children so corrupted by evil that they remain deceptive pictures of innocent beauty....

The governess was hired to look after two wonderful little children. The children’s uncle leaves explicit instructions that he is not to be bothered nor questioned in regard to the children; the governess is to have complete control....

This classic Henry James morality tale involves a triangle of friends and lovers doomed by overreaching desire and treachery....