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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
Dearly beloved friends	Henry James	"While the novelist Henry James never formed a permanent relationship with a single individual, in the last decades of his life he increasingly formed passionate attachments to younger men of diverse…	OL14860901W
The Figure in the Carpet and Other Stories	Henry James	The stories in this collection were written mostly between 1888 and 1897, a time when Henry James's writing was concerned with the art of fiction and the position of the artist in society. The motif …	OL14860910W
Words of Ages	Steffens, Lincoln,O'Sullivan, John L.,Bret Harte,Carl Sandburg,John Dos Passos,Sloan Wilson,Jonathan Edwards,William Bradford,Anne Moody,Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,John Greenleaf Whittier,Taggard, Genevieve,John Woolman,Mark Twain,Ralph Waldo Emerson,Upton Sinclair,Dorothy Parker,Leon Uris,Denise Levertov,Henry David Thoreau,Washington Irving,Anne Bradstreet,Edith Wharton,Elie Wiesel,Annie Dillard,George Fitzhugh,Henry James,Robert Beverley,Jack Kerouac,Arthur Miller,Hamlin Garland,E. E. Cummings,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Abraham Cahan,Willa Cather,Meridel Le Sueur,Zora Neale Hurston,Tom Wolfe,Walt Whitman,Martin Luther King Jr.,John Hershey,Philip A. Roth,Rudyard Kipling,Stephen Crane,Tim O'Brien,John Steinbeck,Benjamin Franklin,John Jay,Frederick Douglass,John Smith,Langston Hughes,W. E. B. Du Bois,Harriet A. Jacobs,Bob Dylan,Louisa May Alcott,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Adams,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Mary Crow Dog,Herman Melville,Close Up Foundation,William Tecumseh Sherman,Philip Morin Freneau,David Halberstam,E. B. White,Robert Olen Butler,Toni Morrison,Thomas Paine,Jose De Diego,Ralph Ellison,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,James D. Houston,Meriwether Lewis,Margaret Fuller,James Fenimore Cooper,Abigail Adams,Countee Cullen,Nat Love,Winthrop, John,Thomas Jefferson,Black Elk,Ernest Howard Crosby,Sandra Cisneros,Hart Crane,Rebecca Harding Davis,Martha Gellhorn,Olaudah Equiano,Clifford Odets,Malcolm X,Juan Nepomuceno Seguín,Francis E. Watkins Harper,Judy Brady,Booker T. Washington,Angelina Weld Grimké,William Clark	Explorers and early settlers -- The general history of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles / John Smith -- The history and present state of Virginia / Robert Beverley -- Of Plymouth Planta…	OL14876177W
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
The United States in Literature [with three long stories] -- Seventh Edition	Edward Rowe Snow,Phyllis McGinley,John N. Morris,Sarah Kemble Knight,J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur,James Russell Lowell,Robert Frost,Edwin Arlington Robinson,T. S. Eliot,Carl Sandburg,Margaret Walker,Elinor Wylie,Sidney Lanier,Jonathan Edwards,Richard Eberhart,William Bradford,William Cullen Bryant,Oliver Wendell Holmes,Ernest Hemingway,Archibald MacLeish,Teresa Palomo Acosta,Katherine Anne Porter,Elizabeth Cady Stanton,Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer,John Greenleaf Whittier,Sara Teasdale,Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson,Mark Twain,Ralph Waldo Emerson,Cotton Mather,Gary Soto,Dorothy Parker,Emily Dickinson,Denise Levertov,Ezra Pound,Henry David Thoreau,Washington Irving,Abraham Lincoln,Anne Bradstreet,Mollie Dorsey Sanford,Kurt Vonnegut,Edith Wharton,Lewis Thomas,James Thurber,Annie Dillard,Henry James,Ambrose Bierce,Paul Laurence Dunbar,William Faulkner,William Carlos Williams,E. E. Cummings,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Carson McCullers,Adrienne Rich,Willa Cather,Maxine Kumin,Walt Whitman,Bernard Malamud,Arna Wendell Bontemps,Ray Bradbury,Leslie Silko,Gwendolyn Brooks,Randall Jarrell,David Wagoner,Claude McKay,Stephen Crane,Amiri Baraka,Sherwood Anderson,Richard Wilbur,John Steinbeck,N. Scott Momaday,Benjamin Franklin,Frederick Douglass,Langston Hughes,W. E. B. Du Bois,William Least Heat Moon,Robert E. Lee,Louisa May Alcott,Nathaniel Hawthorne,John Updike,Wallace Stevens,William Stafford,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Chief Joseph,Tennessee Williams,James E. Miller, Jr.,Edgar Allan Poe,Howard Nemerov,Elizabeth Bishop,Amy Lowell,Francis Wright,Philip Morin Freneau,Jean Toomer,Thomas Paine,Galway Kinnell,Eudora Welty,Robert Hayden,Ralph Ellison,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Richard Wright,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,James Weldon Johnson,Isaac Asimov,Flannery O'Connor,Kate Chopin,James Masao Mitsui,James Baldwin,Margaret Fuller,James Fenimore Cooper,Karl Jay Shapiro,Patrick F. McManus,May Swenson,Edgar Lee Masters,Jim Wayne Miller,Robert Anderson,Countee Cullen,Sylvia Plath,Seattle Chief,Lorraine Hansberry,Louise Bogan,Edna St. Vincent Millay,Thomas Jefferson,Robert Lowell,Sabine R. Ulibarrí,Marianne Moore,Lawson Fusao Inada,Phillis Wheatley,Vern Rutsala,Kerry M. Wood,Eugenia Collier,John Smith,William Byrd II,James W. C. Pennington,Satanta,Lillian Hellman,Mona Van Duyn,Richard Rodriguez,Mari Evans,Theodore Roethke,John Crowe Ransom,Taylor, Edward,Robinson Jeffers	Selections include: ... - [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) by Nathaniel Hawthorne ... - [An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://openlibra…	OL15164554W
The Golden Bowl Vol. 1 & 2	Henry James	The reader witnesses in "The Golden Bowl", one of Henry James greatest novels, the pattern of searing loneliness and unendurable punishment and illicit love interwoven to produce a fabric of treacher…	OL15169970W
Great American Short Stories	Bret Harte,Ernest Hemingway,Mark Twain,Charles Waddell Chesnutt,Henry James,Ambrose Bierce,Willa Cather,Stephen Crane,Sherwood Anderson,Nathaniel Hawthorne,F. Scott Fitzgerald,Paul Negri,Edgar Allan Poe,Sarah Orne Jewett,Herman Melville,Theodore Dreiser,Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman,Kate Chopin,Charlotte Perkins Gilman,Jack London	Contents: Nathaniel Hawthorne: [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W) (1835) -- Edgar Allan Poe: [The tell-tale heart](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL41059W) (1843) -- H…	OL15430879W
The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural	Robert Phillips,H. G. Wells,Robert Bloch,Charles L. Grant,Henry James,Ambrose Bierce,Stephen King,Thomas M. Disch,Jack Dann,William Faulkner,Winston S. Churchill,Ramsey Campbell,Cornell Woolrich,H.P. Lovecraft,William F. Nolan,Henry Slesar,Elizabeth Morton,Fredric Brown,John Lutz,Robert Silverberg,Truman Capote,Theodore Sturgeon,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Barry Malzberg,Theodore Cogswell,Robert Scheckley,Edgar Allan Poe,Fritz Leiber,Arthur Porges,Bill Pronzini,Bram Stoker,Theodore Dreiser,Joyce Carol Oates,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Cyril M. Kornbluth,Ray Russell,Barry N. Malzberg,Edward D. Hoch,Karl Edward Wagner,Evan Hunter,Arthur L. Samuels,Adobe James	Contains: Hop frog / Edgar Allan Poe -- [Rappaccini's Daughter](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455378W) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Squire Toby's will / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The squaw / Bram Stok…	OL15705711W
Great American Short Stories	Bret Harte,Ernest Hemingway,Mark Twain,Washington Irving,Edith Wharton,Henry James,O. Henry,Ambrose Bierce,William Faulkner,Harriet Beecher Stowe,Willa Cather,Stephen Crane,John Steinbeck,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Sarah Orne Jewett,Herman Melville,Flannery O'Connor,Jack London	Washington Irving -- The legend of sleepy hollow -- The spectre bridegroom -- Nathaniel Hawthorne -- [Young Goodman Brown](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL455569W/Young_Goodman_Brown) [Rappaccin…	OL16045961W
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
The portrait of a lady	Henry James	Young American Isabel Archer charms European society, but falls prey to the machinations of a calculating older woman.	OL17740064W
The mammoth book of Victorian and Edwardian ghost stories	Fitz-James O'Brien,Henry James,Charles Dickens,Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu,Dinah Maria Mulock,Richard Dalby	Ghosts / Anon. -- Schalken the painter / Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu -- M. Anastasius / Dinah Maria Mulock -- The lost room / Fitz-James O'Brien -- No. 1 branch line: The signalman / Charles Dickens …	OL19047976W
The turn of the screw	Henry James	The governess of two enigmatic children fears their souls are in danger from the ghosts of the previous governess and her sinister lover.	OL19668710W
Portrait of a Lady	Henry James,Liz Foley	ci, 974 pages ; 24 cm	OL21012436W
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
Daisy Miller	Henry James	Daisy Miller, a naive young American woman traveling in Europe with her family, finds it difficult to understand European society.	OL24258915W
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 Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1	Bret Harte,John Brown,Thomas Hardy,Daniel Defoe,Mark Twain,Washington Irving,Henry James,Charles Dickens,James Hogg,Robert Louis Stevenson,Nathaniel Hawthorne,Edgar Allan Poe,Frank R. Stockton	I. THE EVOLUTION OF THE SHORT-STORY II. THE APPARITION OF MRS. VEAL. By Daniel Defoe (1661-1731) III. THE MYSTERIOUS BRIDE. By James Hogg (1770-1835) IV. THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER. By Washington Ir…	OL264002W