Nanda Brookenham is 'coming out' in London society. Thrust suddenly into the vicious, immoral circle that has gathered round her mother, she even finds herself in competition ...

One of Henry James's most mesmerizing and unusual novels, The Sacred Fount ( 1901) has for its scene a weekend party at the great English country house Newmarch. Here James ...

The Turn of the Screw: Terror closes around the lives of two young children and their governess. But who has spun the frightening web? Can ghosts of a dark past control the ...

Every one asks me what I 'think' of everything, said Spencer Brydon; and I make answer as I can - begging or dodging the question, putting them off with any nonsense. It wouldn ...

She had risen to meet him, and held out her hand with girlish frankness. She was dressed in a light silk dress; she seemed altogether a young woman. "I have been growing hard ...

What Catherine Sloper lacks in brains and beauty, she makes up for by being "very good." The handsome Morris Townsend would do anything to win her hand-even if it means ...

Lady Agnes's idea had been that her son should go straight from the Palais de l'Industrie to the Httel de Hollande, with or without his mother and his sisters, as his humour ...