The Diary of a Man of Fifty

A young governess at a lonely English country house becomes convinced that two ghosts are after the children in her care. Our own Project Aldus edition of the most famous ghost story in English, carefully checked and newly set.

Henry James

A free-spirited American girl in Switzerland and Rome ignores every rule of European society, with tragic results. The novella that made James famous, and a perfect afternoon read.

Henry James

A literary scholar moves into a Venetian palazzo under false pretenses to get his hands on a dead poet's love letters. A gripping novella about obsession and how far someone will go for a secret.

Henry James

John Marcher spends his life waiting for something extraordinary to happen to him, while the woman beside him waits too. One of James's most haunting stories about a life unlived.

Henry James

After decades in Europe, Spencer Brydon returns to his empty New York house and hunts the ghost of the man he might have become. A late ghost story that is as much about regret as about fear.

Henry James