Henry James
The Turn of the Screw (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
Henry James' classic ghost story comprises the written testimony of a young governess, charged with looking after two small children at an i…
The Portrait of a Lady (version 2)
Read by Elizabeth Klett
The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 an…
What Maisie Knew
Read by Elizabeth Klett
When Beale and Ida Farange are divorced, the court decrees that their only child, the very young Maisie, will shuttle back and forth between…
The Turn of the Screw
Read by Nikolle Doolin
The Turn of the Screw is a novella written by Henry James. It is a ghost story that was originally published in 1898. A nameless governess…
The Ambassadors
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James considered The Ambassadors his best, or perhaps his best-wrought, novel. It plays on the great Jamesian theme of the American ab…
The Golden Bowl
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
The Golden Bowl is a 1904 novel by Henry James. Set in England, this complex, intense study of marriage and adultery completes what some cri…
Washington Square
Read by Dawn
Washington Square is a short novel by Henry James. Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Ma…
The Portrait of a Lady, Volume 1
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The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 …
The American
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
One of James’s early novels, The American plunges right in to one of the writer’s most enduring subjects, that of the innocent, or at least …
The Aspern Papers
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, bu…
Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts
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Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne, a compatr…
The Europeans
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
The Europeans: A sketch is a short novel by Henry James, published in 1878. It is essentially a comedy contrasting the behaviour and attitud…
The Art of Fiction
Read by Julie VW
A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American write…
Lady Barbarina
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Rich and beautiful American girls heading to England to find themselves noble titles through marriage, and using their New World wealth to p…
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 022
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A collection of nineteen stories featuring ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggedy beasties and things that go bump in the night. Expect shivers u…
The Wheel of Time
Read by David Wales
Fanny Knocker is a very, very plain young woman. She is introduced to the extremely handsome, thoroughly impoverished, younger son of an old…
The Portrait of a Lady Vol 2
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The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-1881 …
Daisy Miller: A Study in Two Parts (version 2 dramatic reading)
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Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James first appearing in Cornhill Magazine in June–July 1879, and in book form the following year. …
The Wings of the Dove
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"The Wings of the Dove," published in 1902, represents to my memory a very old--if I shouldn't perhaps rather say a very young--mo…
The Jolly Corner
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
"The Jolly Corner," published in 1908, is considered by many to be a ghost story ranking second only to "The Turn of the Scre…
The Bostonians, Vol. 1 & 2
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This bittersweet tragicomedy centers on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political conservative from Mississippi; Olive Chance…
The Liar
Read by Deborah Percy
A successful painter reconnects with the woman he once loved during a visit to an English country house. His surprise is great when he learn…
The Beast in the Jungle
Read by Rob James
'The Beast in the Jungle' is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection, The Better Sort. Almost universally c…
The Real Thing
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
The Real Thing is, on one level, a somewhat ironic tale of an artist and two rather particular models. Yet it also raises questions about th…
The Portrait of a Lady (version 3)
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Our central character is Isabel Archer of Albany, New York, a young woman of no great means, and no great beauty (that is, by her own estima…
The Figure in the Carpet
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
The story ostensibly concerns a young literary critics who greatly admires the writer Hugh Vereker. A meeting with Vereker, however, shows h…
Roderick Hudson
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Published as a serial in 1875, Roderick Hudson is James's first important novel. The theme of Americans in Europe, so important in much of J…
In the Cage
Read by Lee Ann Howlett
In the Cage is a novella by Henry James, first published as a book in 1898. This long story centers on an unnamed London telegraphist. She d…
The Princess Casamassima
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Princess Casamassima can be read on several levels: first, as a political and social novel, exploring the anarchistic and revolutionary unde…
The Pupil
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Pemberton, a young American with an Oxford education and out of money, takes a job tutoring Morgan Moreen, the 12-year old son of an America…
The Awkward Age
Read by Anna Simon
Nanda Brookenham is coming of age, and thus 'coming out' in London society - which leads to complications in her family's social set in Lond…
The Spoils of Poynton
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
The recently widowed Adela Gereth, a lover of beauty and passionate collector of fine objects, strikes up a friendship with the young Fleda …
Short Story Collection Vol. 051
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LibriVox’s Short Story Collection 051: a collection of 20 short works of fiction in the public domain read by a group of LibriVox members.
Stories of Successful Marriages
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A collection of short stories by celebrated authors on the subject of successful marriages. Pieces originally appeared in other publications…
Lord Beaupre
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
What is a young man to do, when because of his pleasant disposition, and (of course) his considerable wealth, he finds himself besieged by b…
The Reverberator
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Another Jamesian look at Americans in Paris. What happens when a reporter for an American scandal sheet (The Reverberator) is looking for a …
Sir Dominick Ferrand
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
"Levity" is not a word often applied to Henry James, but this story has about it an attractively lighthearted quality. It tells of…
The Turn of the Screw (Version 3)
Read by Sandra Cullum
A gothic, ghost story, you are a jury of one. Is the Governess correct in her assumptions that her charges, two adorable and exemplary child…
Short Story Collection Vol. 062
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LibriVox readers bring you 20 short works of fiction in the public domain. This collection includes stories by a variety of authors, includi…
A Little Tour in France
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
A splendid example of travel writing at its best, in this description of six week tour in France -- from Touraine, down to Provence, then ba…
A London Life
Read by Deborah Percy
A devoted sister attempts to check her sibling's scandalous behavior in the world of British high society. A delightful comedy of Anglo-Ame…
The Chaperon
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
What on earth is a girl to do when London society has convicted her mother of a dreadful sin and has ostracized her? If blood is thicker tha…
Owen Wingrave
Read by David Wales
A young man of good family with a long distinguished military tradition indicates that he will not follow his ancestors' path into the army.…
The Lesson of the Master
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
A promising young writer meets an older man whose works have inspired him, as well as a highly intelligent and attractive young woman, at a …
The Siege of London
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
In this work, first published in 1883, James once again writes of an American trying to settle in England. The woman at the center, however,…
The Last of the Valerii
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
An unnamed American painter resident in Rome serves as narrator in this story, watching as his god-daughter Martha, becomes the wife of Prin…
The Papers
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Today the world is awash with “celebrities” whose only accomplishment is being celebrated by the media in all its various forms. Henry James…
Sir Edmund Orme
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James wrote a number of ghost stories -- The Turn of the Screw being the most famous. Did he believe in ghosts himself, as did many of…
The Birthplace
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Neither the name of Shakespeare nor that of Stratford appears directly in this short piece by James, and yet both are absolutely central to …
The Other House
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A dramatic tale of passion and unrequited love, involving a deathbed promise, murder and a cover-up, all of which takes place in a tight-kni…
The Altar of the Dead
Read by Dorlene Kaplan
A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores how the protagonist tries to keep the remembrance of his dead friends, …
The Death of the Lion
Read by Jacquerie
This short novel is a black comedy about fame, manipulation, pretension, and surviving it all. The narrator, a reprehensible and seedy journ…
Confidence
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This light and somewhat awkward comedy centers on artist Bernard Longueville, scientist Gordon Wright, and the sometimes inscrutable heroine…
A Small Boy and Others
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A Small Boy and Others is a book of autobiography by Henry James published in 1913. The book covers James's earliest years and discusses his…
The Sacred Fount
Read by skoval
Published in 1901, The Sacred Fount delves into the interior observations and obsessions of one Englishman during a weekend gathering in the…
The Way It Came
Read by Tony Addison
Best known under the title "The Friends Of The Friends" and chosen under that title for his classic fantasy anthology "Black …
An International Episode
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Two men visiting the US from London meet a pair of charming women who return the visit the following year in London. Romantic intrigues, mis…
First Chapter Collection 001
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"Are you wishing sometimes that you had a good book which you don't know, that you might just read and enjoy? The goal of this collecti…
Short Nonfiction Collection Vol. 032
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Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include the history of aeroplanes, politica…
Collaboration
Read by David Wales
It is Paris sometime after the Franco-Prussian War (1870--Germany won--the French Second Republic collapsed--France embittered). A French po…
Benjamin Britten: Source Stories of Twelve Operas
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Britten's operas are firmly established in the international repertoire: according to Operabase, they are performed worldwide more than thos…
The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors
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A 1908 NaNoWriMo forerunner, told in twelve chapters, each with a different author. The basic plot was to show how an engagement or marriage…
Lavender Lit 101 - International LGB Literature up to 1923
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International LGB Literature up to 1923This is a collection of 30 American and European gay, lesbian, & bisexual writers from the 16th t…
The Tragic Muse
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Art or politics, this is the question Nick Dormer dealls with in the course of this novel. Mirian Ruth, an aspiring actress, is the "tr…
Italian Hours
Read by Barbara Baker
A loving recollection of the writer’s experiences, over many decades, of Italian places, people and art. - Summary by barbara2
The Third Person
Read by Anthony Orr
The Third Person is an amusing spoof on spooking. The 'ghostly man about the house' in whom two increasingly competitive maiden ladies come …
The Jolly Corner (Version 2)
Read by Tony Addison
"A miraculous masterpiece" it seemed to Henry James, who wrote it. What actually happens in this most remarkable story (though at…
The Beast in the Jungle (version 2)
Read by Tony Addison
One of James's last great stories, it is not actually a ghost story but has every claim to be considered such with its mysterious spectral e…
Wheels - The First Cycle
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A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family, the first in 1916. Apart from Edith, Osbert and…
Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 062
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Fifteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Volume 62 features several introspective essays: b…
Wheels - The Second Cycle
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A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family between 1916 and 1922. The second volume, publis…
The Coxon Fund
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This novella explores the relationship between Frank Saltram, a charismatic speaker who is also a freeloader; Ruth Anvoy, a young American w…
Partial Portraits
Read by Rita Boutros
In this book, writer Henry James gives wonderful and probing insights into the lives and works of many famous and interesting writers, some …
The Outcry
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The story concerns the contemplated sale of a famous painting by a proud but relatively cash-strapped British aristocrat to a wealthy Americ…
Wheels - The Fourth Cycle
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A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family between 1916 and 1922. The fourth volume, publis…
Wheels - A Third Cycle
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A series of six volumes of Wheels anthologies was produced by members of the Sitwell family between 1916 and 1922. The third volume, publish…
Madame de Mauves
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Considered an early masterpiece, "Madame de Mauves" is the first of Henry James's 'international contrasts'. It recounts the story…
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 18
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The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
The Soft Side
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Lauded author Henry James, best known for his seminal and highly influential novella The Turn of the Screw and his highly literate trans-con…
Short Story Collection 111
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Here is our 111th Short Story Collection. Once again, our readers have selected a range of stories, touching on a variety of emotions. Sit b…
The Ivory Tower
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An unfinished manuscript written in ponderous, convoluted language making possible subterfuge and frankness in wealthy American society of J…
Hawthorne
Read by James Hutchisson
A brief biographical sketch and critical analysis of the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, one of the preeminent writers of the nineteenth-centu…