Henry James

Reproduction of the original: Embarrassments by Henry James

Reproduction of the original: The Finer Grain by Henry James

Reproduction of the original: The Finer Grain by Henry James

Reproduction of the original: The Outcry by Henry James

Reproduction of the original: The Outcry by Henry James

Reproduction of the original: Picture and Text 1893 by Henry James

Reproduction of the original: The Spoils of Poynton by Henry James

Reproduction of the original: Within the Rim and Other Essays by Henry James

Reproduction of the original: Within the Rim and Other Essays by Henry James

Reproduction of the original: Lady Barbarina by Henry James

Reproduction of the original: Lady Barbarina by Henry James

Reproduction of the original: Embarrassments by Henry James

Reproduction of the original: The Bostonians by Henry James

Reproduction of the original: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James

Reproduction of the original: A Passionate Pilgrim by Henry James

Reproduction of the original: The Madonna of the Future by Henry James

Reproduction of the original: Notes of a Son and Brother by Henry James

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"The Jolly Corner," published in 1908, is considered by many to be a ghost story ranking second only to "The Turn of the Screw." James's protagonist, Spencer Brydon, is an American of 56, returned to New York after 33 years in Europe, where he has apparently accomplished little while living off his New York rentals. His friendship with Alice Staverton, and his engagement in the development of a property awaken him to the possibilities that might have been his, had he chosen a different course of life. The "ghost," if that's what it is, is that other self that might have been, and his confrontation with that self and its possibilities leads to a deeply unsettling, yet ambiguous, conclusion.

"Levity" is not a word often applied to Henry James, but this story has about it an attractively lighthearted quality. It tells of Peter Baron, a poor, young struggling writer of adequate, if not transcendent, talent, who lives in a dreary London boarding house inhabited also by a mysteriously clairvoyant and beautiful young widow, with her small boy. When Baron buys himself a second-hand writing desk to stimulate the creative juices, he finds carefully hidden within it a cache of letters that appear to compromise a recently deceased statesman. The discovery and his struggle to handle the questions they pose ultimately change his life. Along the way he also discovers, as a fringe benefit, a talent for what Americans (though probably not Jamesians) call Tin Pan Alley.