Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The ambassador	Henry James	An American ambassador in Vietnam faces a moral and political crisis when he is placed in the position of having to decide the fate of the country and the life or death of its rulers.	OL10424520W
The complete notebooks of Henry James	Henry James	"This book includes the nine scribbler-notebooks that were published by Oxford in 1947 ; these have been considerably updated and annotated to correct the identification of stories developed by James…	OL14860893W
The Velvet Glove	Henry James	John Berridge, celebrated American author and playwright, is attending a social gathering at the studio of an artistic sponsor, Madame Gloriani. Berridge had traveled to Paris to attend a production …	OL14914654W
Great American Short Stories [34 stories]	Bret Harte,Richard Connell,Heywood Broun,Ernest Hemingway,Marc Connelly,Mark Twain,Edith Wharton,Henry James,O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,William Faulkner,Jesse Stuart,John O'Hara,John Cheever,Ray Bradbury,Stephen Crane,John Steinbeck,Stephen Vincent Benét,John Updike,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Edgar Allan Poe,Herman Melville,Eudora Welty,Richard Wright,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,The Editors of The Reader's Digest,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Pearl S. Buck,Jack London,Shirley Ann Grau,Ring Lardner,Shirley Jackson,Kay Boyle,Walter Van Tilburg Clark,Susan Glaspell,Damon Runyon,Readers Digest Editors	Contains: Winter Dreams What Stumped the Bluejays To Build a Fire A Jury of Her Peers The Storm The Pioneer Hep-Cat The Furnished Room I Can’t Breathe The Short Happy Life of Francis Macombe…	OL16481148W
Voyage en France	Henry James	Journal d'un "voyageur sentimental", guidé par ses seuls sentiments et sensations. Un bon aperçu de la France en 1877 : de Tours à Dijon, en passant par Nantes et Arles. Introduction, p. 9-19.	OL24157741W
L'Élève	Henry James	Trois nouvelles, précédées d'un bon article du traducteur. Nous intéressent ici particulièrement ##L'image dans le tapis## (1896), récit obsédant autant pour le lecteur que pour le personnage, et ##L…	OL24426013W
The American	Henry James,Peter Collister	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.	OL276314W
The awkward age	Henry James	Nanda Brookenham is 'coming out' in London society. Thrust suddenly into the vicious, immoral circle that has gathered round her mother, she even finds herself in competition with Mrs Brookenham for …	OL276317W
The Beldonald Holbein	Henry James	Mrs. Munden had not yet been to my studio on so good a pretext as when she first intimated that it would be quite open to me - should I only care, as she called it, to throw the handkerchief - to pai…	OL276318W
The Patagonia	Henry James	The houses were dark in the August night and the perspective of Beacon Street, with its double chain of lamps, was a foreshortened desert. The club on the hill alone, from its semi-cylindrical front…	OL276363W
The Reverberator	Henry James	"I guess my daughter's in here," the old man said leading the way into the little salon de lecture. He was not of the most advanced age, but that is the way George Flack considered him, and indeed he…	OL276467W
What Maisie knew	Henry James	In the aftermath of an acrimonious divorce, young Maisie Farange finds herself shuttled back and forth between her father and mother, both of them amoral and monstrously self-involved. After her pare…	OL276469W
Classic American Short Stories	Bret Harte,Mark Twain,Washington Irving,Henry James,O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Vincent Foster Hopper	Rip Van Winkle / Washington Irving -- The ambitious guest ; [Minister's Black Veil](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455342W) ; Ethan Brand ; Endicott and the Red Cross / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [The…	OL3360282W
The Best Ghost Stories Ever	Christopher Krovatin,W. W. Jacobs,Washington Irving,Henry James,Jerome Klapka Jerome,Anonymous,Edgar Allan Poe,Bram Stoker,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Algernon Blackwell	The empty house / by Algernon Blackwell The monkey's paw / by W.W. Jacobs The legend of Sleepy Hollow / by Washington Irving [Masque of the Red Death](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41050W) / …	OL5719075W
The Situation of the Story	Ellen Wilbur,Ernest Hemingway,Katherine Anne Porter,Mark Twain,Virginia Woolf,Антон Павлович Чехов,David Herbert Lawrence,Edith Wharton,Charles Johnson,Henry James,William Faulkner,John Edgar Wideman,Gloria Naylor,Amy Tan,Raymond Carver,Willa Cather,Zora Neale Hurston,George P. Garrett,Toni Cade Bambara,Bernard Malamud,John Cheever,Truman Capote,William Goyen,Stephen Crane,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Updike,Diana Young,Doris Lessing,Edgar Allan Poe,Sarah Orne Jewett,Herman Melville,Louise Erdrich,James Joyce,Eudora Welty,Joyce Carol Oates,Franz Kafka,Flannery O'Connor,Elizabeth Spencer,Lee K. Abbott,Ann Beattie,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Maria Cruz Viramontes de Marin,Shirley Jackson,Anna Lee Walters,Tillie Olsen,Conrad Aiken,Alice Munro,Bharati Mukherjee,Estela Portillo Trambley,Allen Barnett,REGINALD McKNlGHT	FLANNERY O'CONNOR, The Comforts of Home 3 ANN BEATTIE, It's Just Another Day in Big Bear City, California 22 MARK TWAIN, The $30,000 Bequest 37 EUDORA WELTY, Why I Live at the P.O. 62 WILLIAM GOY…	OL8138361W