Henry James

A wealthy spinster receives a proposal from a dashing suitor, and her father threatens her with disinheritance if she accepts....

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....

Daisy Miller is a young American girl travelling Europe with her mother and younger brother. While in Vevey, Switzerland, she becomes acquainted with Frederick Winterbourne, an idle expatriate, of well-to-do Americans....

Taking place in Boston, Massachusetts, a decade after the Civil War, The Bostonians tells the story of two cousins who battle for the affections of and control over an enchanting prophetess....

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....

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

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

A young governess arrives at Bly, a country home in Essex, England, to care for Miles and Flora, two precocious and pure children....

Published in 1904, The Golden Bowl is the last completed novel of Henry James. In it, the widowed American Adam Verver is in Europe with his daughter Maggie....

This ghost story is about a governess who, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted...