Henry James

Le Tour d'écrou est une nouvelle fantastique d'Henry James. Le narrateur assiste à la lecture du journal d'une gouvernante. La jeune femme...

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

Beautiful Kate Croy may have been left penniless by her relatives, but her bold, ambitious nature ensures she will not succumb meekly to a life of poverty....

This classic Henry James morality tale involves a triangle of friends and lovers doomed by overreaching desire and treachery....

Kate Croy is in love with Merton Densher; a poor writer. Her rich aunt Maud disapproves. Maud has offered Kate a wealthy existence but if Kate chooses to marry Merton she risks losing it all....

Lambert Strether goes to Paris to bring back Chad, son of the New England widow he plans to marry. But he gradually comes to feel that life in Paris may hold more for himself....

Maisie is an innocent six year-old, torn between her divorced parents, pathetically isolated yet tragically involved....

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

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....