Henry James Audio

When Chadwick Newsome lingers too long in Paris, his mother, a wealthy New England widow, sends...

A naive American finds himself out of his element in Europe....

James’s quintessential American is Christopher Newman, a wealthy man visiting Paris, who soon becomes enamored with Claire de Cintré, a widow of noble birth. Newman also becomes embroiled in the intrigues of French aristocracy.

A lecture on the art of fiction, given by the English critic Walter Besant on April 25, 1884, and an answer to the lecture by American writer Henry James in the same year.

An editor and literary critic becomes obsessed with the life and work of poet Jeffrey Aspern, who...

One of James's favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, but now dead, American poet.

When pretty but unsophisticated Daisy Miller comes to Rome from her home in Schenectady, New York...

Frederick Winterbourne, an American expatriate visiting at Vevey, Switzerland, meets com-monplace, newly rich Mrs. Miller from Schenectady, New York.

Daisy Miller is a beautiful and flirtatious rich young American visiting a Swiss spa.

Daisy Miller is an 1878 novella by Henry James. It portrays the confused courtship of the eponymous American girl by Winterbourne, a compatriot of hers with much more sophistication.