Short Stories, Volume 2
Henry James
Twenty-two stories from his middle years, including The Aspern Papers, The Pupil, The Real Thing, A London Life, and the ghost story Owen Wingrave.
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Short Stories, Volume 3Twenty-one late stories, among them The Figure in the Carpet, The Altar of the Dead, The Beast in the Jungle, and The Jolly Corner. James at his most subtle and haunting.
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George Stransom keeps a private altar of candles for everyone he has lost, except the one friend who betrayed him. A quiet, moving tale about grief, memory, and forgiveness.
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A shy librarian becomes the caretaker of a great poet's birthplace and slowly realizes that almost nothing the tourists hear is true. A funny, ironic story about literary fame.
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Two young English aristocrats visit New York and Newport, and one of them falls for a bright Boston girl. A light comedy that flips Daisy Miller around, putting the English abroad in America.
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