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Henry James's story Julia Bride appeared in Harper's magazine in 1908. Julia Bride is being courted by Basil French, the son of a wealthy but very traditional New York family. He wants to know more about her background, but she is reluctant to let him know that she has been engaged six times, and that her mother has been divorced twice and is likely heading for a third one. Julia is caught between America’s class mobility, social fluidity and personal freedoms, and the rigid ethics, snobbery, and social codes that the east coast elite had imported from Europe.

The Beast in the Jungle is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published in the collection titled The Better Sort. The story addresses themes like fate, loneliness, love and death. The protagonist, John Marcher, anticipates an event that he believes will set him apart from other people. Marcher is frozen by his fears and a sense of impending doom. A haunting tale of egotism, fear of the unknown and unrequited love, the story warns that the only thing one has to fear is fear itself. John’s failure to reciprocate May Bartram’s love condemns him.

The Lesson of the Master is a novella by Henry James about life and art, the choice that an artist must make, and the life that art makes. It’s the story of a young writer, Paul Overt, who becomes friends with Henry St. George, a famous author, at about the same time that he meets the love of his life. St. George tells Paul that he ought to dedicate himself to writing, and warns him against the distraction of a wife and family; he goes out of his way to persuade the young writer that marriage would destroy his creativity.

A warmhearted, family-oriented multicultural novel, adapted from the Hollywood screenplay, about a down-and-out dad, estranged from his wife and son, who screws up Christmas and tries to make it right - during the festival of Kwanzaa.

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

Es klingt nach einer Aufgabe, wie jede andere auch, die eine junge Lehrerin auf einem abgelegenen Landsitz zu erfüllen hat. Kinder unterrichten, das richtige Benehmen lehren, dafür sorgen, dass alles in geordneten Bahnen läuft. Anfangs scheint alles genauso zu laufen. Bald aber zeigt sich, dass hinter der goldigen Fassade der Kinder etwas lauert. Etwas Unaussprechliches. Etwas Böses. Etwas, dass nur eines will - zurückkehren ins Reich der Lebenden.

James' chilling Gothic horror novella read by Nicki White, reprising her role as the governess.

The Turn of the Screw is an 1898 horror novella by Henry James that first appeared in serial format in Collier's Weekly magazine. Classified as both Gothic fiction and a ghost story, the novella focuses on a governess who, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted. A cornerstone text of academics who subscribed to New Criticism, the novella has had differing interpretations, often mutually exclusive. Narrated by Michael Ward, and intended as a companion to the Kindle edition.

In der LILYLA Hörbuch-Edition "Meistererzählungen" widmen wir uns einem Autoren, dessen Werke in Ausdruck, Authentizität und Sprachgewalt Einzug in den erlauchten Kreis der Welt-Literatur erhalten haben, weil sie den jeweiligen Zeitgeist widerspiegeln und ihre Erzählungen von dem handeln, was von zeitloser Ästhetik und Würde ist: Menschlichkeit und ungeschönte Beschreibung der Realität mit all dem pulsierenden Leben voll von Widersprüchen, Hoffnungen,Ängsten, Romanzen, Schicksalsschlägen, Lebensfreude, Brutalität, Liebe und dem Sinn unserer Existenz mit all ihrer Sanftheit und all ihrer Härte.

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. Winterbourne, who observes and critiques young Daisy through their brief acquaintanceship, is infatuated with her irreverent behavior. Daisy flaunts society's rules and uncompromising standards; she is charming, spontaneous, and unpretentious, and her audacity shocks the Europeans, who consider her an uncultivated flirt. The sophisticated Winterbourne remains smitten with Daisy, but his classical values stand in his way.

July 1983, Essex. A boy playing hide-and-seek sees a fox tugging at something up on a railway embankment. He approaches it cautiously. Seconds later, a blast is heard, and rooks ascend from the poplars surrounding the farmhouse at which the boy is spending his summer holiday with cousins. DI Nick Lowry is called upon to investigate two deaths at Fox Farm, the home of eminent historian Christopher Cliff. The body in the farmhouse kitchen is Cliff himself, having seemingly taking his own life with an antique shotgun. The fox-disturbed body on the property boundary is as yet unidentified.

Ein anonymer Ich-Erzähler versucht als Redakteur eines Käseblattes etwas journalistisches Niveau einzubringen und sieht bei seinem Besuch des unbekannten Autoren Neil Paraday eine goldene Gelegenheit am Horizont aufblitzen. Er liest einen Auszug aus einem unveröffentlichten Manuskript und erkennt das literarische Genie des Verfassers. Er gewinnt das Vertrauen von Paraday und versucht dessen aufgehenden Stern so gut es geht von den Geiern der Massenmedien und den fanatischen Fans zu beschützen. Dies gelingt ihm nur bedingt.

What Maisie Knew was first published as a serial in the Chap Book and (revised and abridged) in the New Review in 1897 and then as a book later in the same year. The story of the sensitive daughter of divorced and irresponsible parents, What Maisie Knew has great contemporary relevance as an unflinching account of a wildly dysfunctional family. The book is also a masterly technical achievement by James, as it follows the title character from earliest childhood to precocious maturity.

Der namentlich nicht genannte Ich-Erzähler, sein Freund George Gravener und deren Londoner Freundeskreis sind fasziniert von Frank Saltram, den sie für ein Genie halten, weil er ihnen intellektuell überlegen ist. Sie sind überzeugt davon, dass Frank früher oder später ein literarisches Meisterwerk hervorbringt, dass dessen genialen Geist widerspiegelt und sehen in ihm einen neuen aufgehenden Stern am Londoner Kunsthimmel. Doch leider geschieht nichts dergleichen, denn Frank Saltram steht lieber spät auf, besucht Kneipen.

John Marcher und May Bartram sind seit der Jugend befreundet. Für John ist May die einzige Person, die ihn wirklich versteht. Er selbst sieht sich als Suchenden nach etwas Ungewissem, für ihn selber nicht Verständlichem, nach etwas, von dem er sich sein persönliches Glück verspricht, aber von dem er nicht sagen kann, was es ist. May erahnt in diesem Charakterzug Johns dessen Bedürfnis und verzweifeltes Streben nach etwas Besonderem oder Außergewöhnlichem in seinem Leben, jedoch ohne ihn mit dieser Erkenntnis direkt zu konfrontieren.

Der etablierte Porträtmaler Lyon folgt einer Einladung von Sir David Ashmore zum Dinner und trifft auf dessen Anwesen eine Frau, der er als junger, erfolgloser Künstler einst einen Heiratsantrag gemacht hatte. Mrs. Capadose' Gatte erregt das Interesse des Malers. Oberst Capadose kennt keine Zweifel, strotzt vor Selbstbewusstsein und die Erzählungen seiner Heldentaten - von ihm persönlich vorgetragen - bilden den Mittelpunkt gesellschaftlicher Unterhaltung. Die Frage ist, inwiefern die offensichtlichen Übertreibungen von Mr. Capadose von ihm selbst geglaubt werden.

Originally published in 1880 as a serial in Cornhill Magazine and Harper's New Monthly Magazine, "Washington Square" is a structurally simple tragicomedy that recounts the conflict between a dull but sweet daughter and her brilliant, domineering father. The plot of the novel is based upon a true story told to James by his close friend, British actress Fanny Kemble. The book is often compared to Jane Austen's work for the clarity and grace of its prose and its intense focus on family relationships.

After the collapse of her marriage to an illustrious German prince, Baroness Eugenia Münster arrives in America with her brother, in search of wealthy New England relatives. The duo have an immediate impact on their American cousins, the Wentworths. The Baroness captures the eye of young Clifford Wentworth, and his girlfriend's older brother Robert; meanwhile, Felix falls for his American cousin Gertrude. The Wentworths are overawed by their European cousins and their frivolous lifestyle. What unfolds is a delightful comedy of manners.

A young governess arrives at Bly, a country home in Essex, England, to care for Miles and Flora, two precocious and pure children. But as ghostly visions take shape, the obsessively protective governess soon fears for the safety of her wards - only to wonder if these hauntings are a conjuring of her own imagination.

August, 1983. Denton is preparing for a wedding. DS Waters should be on top of the world with less than a week to go until he marries Kim Myles. But the Sunday before the big day, the body of a young woman is found in the churchyard, and their wedding venue becomes a crime scene. DS Jack Frost has been homeless for the past three months. He's been staying with DC Sue Clarke but with a baby to take care of and the imminent arrival of her mother, she's given him his marching orders.