James, Henry

Presents the text of the 1908 New York Edition of the novel in which high-spirited American, Isabel Archer, travels to England to find romance, heartbreak, and betrayal, and includes a selection of autobiographical excerpts, reviews, and criticism.

Contains five short fiction stories by nineteenth-century American writer Henry James, including the title work about two children whose new governess believes are being haunted by the ghosts of former servants.

A high-spirited American girl, Isabel Archer, arrives at the English manor, Gardencourt. There she attracts the passions of a British aristocrat, a brash American, and the secret adoration of her invalid cousin.

A reprint of Henry James' "The America" that includes a textual history of the novel, background and source materials, and critical articles by James and others.

Young American Isabel Archer charms European society, but falls prey to the machinations of a calculating older woman.

In the heart of traditional Boston the female abolitionists are demanding an answer to the woman-question. Beautiful Verena Tarrant sometimes acts as an amiable wife and sometimes as an inspirational abolitionist speaker. With introduction, notes, selected criticism, and a chronology of James' life and times.

These nine tales represent the major dimensions of the short fiction James wrote in the course of thirty years.