Henry James, 1843-1916
Biographical note
American/British author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best-known for novels and novellas of morals. As such, he favors internal, psychological drama; his work is frequently about alienation, his prose frequently serpentine. His earlier work is considered Realist, but in fact throughout his long career he maintained a strong interest in a variety of artistic effects and movements.
Works
Novels
- Watch and Ward [1871]
- Roderick Hudson [1875]
- The American [1877]
- The Europeans [1878]
- Confidence [1879]
- Washington Square [1880]
- The Portrait of a Lady [1881]
- The Bostonians [1886]
- The Princess Casamassima [1886]
- The Reverberator [1888]
- The Tragic Muse [1890]
- The Other House [1896]
- The Spoils of Poynton [1897]
- What Maisie Knew [1897]
- The Awkward Age [1899]
- The Sacred Fount [1901]
- The Wings of the Dove [1902]
- The Ambassadors [1903]
- The Golden Bowl [1904]
- The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors [collaborative novel, 1908]
- The Outcry [1911]
- The Ivory Tower [unfinished, published posthumously 1917]
- The Sense of the Past [unfinished, published posthumously 1917]
Novellas and tales
- A tragedy of error [1864]
- The story of a year [1865]
- A landscape painter [1866]
- A day of days [1866]
- My friend Bingham [1867]
- Poor Richard [1867]
- The story of a masterpiece [1868]
- The romance of certain old clothes [1868]
- A most extraordinary case [1868]
- A problem [1868]
- De Grey: a romance [1868]
- Osborne’s revenge [1868]
- A light man [1869]
- Gabrielle De Bergerac [1869]
- Travelling companions [1870]
- A Passionate Pilgrim [1871]
- At Isella [1871]
- Master Eustace [1871]
- Guest’s confession [1872]
- The Madonna of the Future [1873]
- The sweetheart of M. Briseux [1873]
- The last of the Valerii [1874]
- Madame de Mauves [1874]
- Adina [1874]
- Professor Fargo [1874]
- Eugene Pickering [1874]
- Benvolio [1875]
- Crawford’s consistency [1876]
- The Ghostly Rental [1876]
- Four Meetings [1877]
- Théodolinde (later Rose-Agathe)[1878]
- Daisy Miller: a study in two parts [1878]
- Longstaff’s marriage [1878]
- An International Episode [1878]
- The Pension Beaurepas [1879]
- The Diary of a Man of Fifty [1879]
- A Bundle of Letters [1879]
- The Point of View [1882]
- The Siege of London [1883]
- The impressions of a cousin [1883]
- Georgina's reasons [1884]
- Lady Barbarina [1884]
- The Author of Beltraffio [1884]
- Pandora [1884]
- A New England winter [1884]
- The Path Of Duty [1884]
- Mrs. Temperly [1887]
- Louisa Pallant [1888]
- A London Life [1888]
- A London Life and Other Tales / Henry James
- The Aspern Papers [1888]
- The Liar [1888]
- Two countries (The modern warning)[1888]
- The Lesson of the Master [1888]
- The Patagonia [1888]
- The solution [1888]
- The Pupil [1891]
- Brooksmith [1891]
- The Marriages [1891]
- The Chaperon [1891]
- Sir Edmund Orme [1891]
- Nona Vincent [1892]
- The private life [1892]
- The Real Thing [1892]
- Lord Beauprey (Lord Beaupré)[1892]
- The visit (The visits)[1892]
- Sir Dominick Ferrand (Jersey Villas) [1892]
- Collaboration [1892]
- Greville Fane [1892]
- The wheel of time [1892]
- Owen Wingrave [1892]
- The Death of the Lion [1894]
- The Coxon Fund [1894]
- The Altar of the Dead [1895]
- The Next Time [1895]
- The Figure in the Carpet [1896]
- Glasses [1896]
- The way it came (The friends of the friends) [1896]
- John Delavoy [1898]
- The Turn of the Screw [1898]
- In the Cage [1898]
- Covering End [1898]
- The Given Case [1898]
- The Great Condition [1899]
- ‘Europe’ [1899]
- Paste [1899]
- The Real Right Thing [1899]
- The Great Good Place [1900]
- Maud-Evelyn [1900]
- Miss Gunton of Poughkeepsie [1900]
- The special type [1900]
- The Tree of Knowledge [1900]
- The Abasement of the Northmores [1900]
- The Third Person [1900]
- The tone of time [1900]
- Broken wings [1900]
- The faces (The two faces) [1900]
- Mrs. Medwin [1901]
- The Beldonald Holbein [1901]
- The story in it [1902]
- Flickerbridge [1902]
- The Beast in the Jungle [1903]
- The Birthplace [1903]
- The Papers [1903]
- Fordham Castle [1904]
- Julia Bride [1908]
- The Jolly Corner [1908]
- Mora Montravers [1909]
- The Velvet Glove [1909]
- Crapy Cornelia [1909]
- The Bench of Desolation [1909]
- A Round of Visits [1910]
Autobiography
- A small boy and others [1913]
- Notes of a Son and Brother [1914]
- The Middle Years [unfinished, published posthumously 1917]
Other non-fiction
- French Poets and Novelists [1878]
- Hawthorne [1879]
- A Little Tour in France [1884]
- Partial Portraits [1888]
- Essays in London and Elsewhere [1893]
- Picture and Text [1893]
- Theatricals [1894]
- Theatricals: Second Series [1895]
- Guy Domville [1895]
- William Wetmore Story and His Friends [1903]
- English Hours [1905]
- The American Scene [1907]
- Italian Hours [1909]
- Notes on Novelists [1914]
- Views and Reviews / Henry James
- Notebooks [various, published posthumously]
- The Finer Grain / Henry James
- Embarrassments / Henry James
- Within the Rim and Other Essays / Henry James
- The Letters of Henry James (Vol. I) / Henry James; edited by Percy Lubbock
- The Letters of Henry James, (Vol. II) / Henry James; edited by Percy Lubbock


