Category: Classics

Lifespan: (April 15, 1843 – February 28, 1916)

Interesting & Unique Facts: James is one of the founders and leaders of a school of realism in fiction. He spent much of his life in England and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for a series of major novels in which he portrayed the encounter of America with Europe.

James was an extraordinarily productive writer, in addition to his voluminous works of fiction he published articles and books of travel writing, biography, autobiography, criticism, and wrote plays, some of which were performed during his lifetime with moderate success. James was never married, and after settling in London he proclaimed himself "a bachelor" and regularly rejected suggestions that he marry.

James was particularly interested in what he called the "beautiful and blest nouvelle", or the longer form of short narrative. Many of his novels and works have been adapted to the screen. Three of James's novels were filmed by the team of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory: The Europeans (1978), The Bostonians (1984) and The Golden Bowl (2000).


Author's work in order (with publication dates):

Novels

• Watch and Ward (1871)
• Roderick Hudson (1875)
• The American (1877)
• The Europeans (1878)
• Confidence (1879)
• Washington Square (1880)
• The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
• The Bostonians (1886)
• The Princess Casamassima (1886)
• The Reverberator (1888)
• The Tragic Muse (1890)
• The Other House (1896)
• The Spoils of Poynton (1897)
• What Maisie Knew (1897)
• The Awkward Age (1899)
• The Sacred Fount (1901)
• The Wings of the Dove (1902)
• The Ambassadors (1903)
• The Golden Bowl (1904)
• The Whole Family [collaborative novel with eleven other authors, 1908]
• The Outcry (1911)
• The Ivory Tower [unfinished, published posthumously 1917]
• The Sense of the Past [unfinished, published posthumously 1917]

Novellas and Tales

• A Passionate Pilgrim (1871)
• Madame de Mauves (1874)
• Daisy Miller (1878)
• A Bundle of Letters (1879)
• The Author of Beltraffio (1884)
• The Aspern Papers (1888)
• A London Life (1888)
• The Pupil (1891)
• The Real Thing (1892)
• The Middle Years (1893)
• The Death of the Lion (1894)
• The Coxon Fund (1894)
• The Next Time (1895)
• The Altar of the Dead (1895)
• The Turn of the Screw (1898)
• In the Cage (1898)
• Europe (1899)
• Paste (1899)
• The Great Good Place (1900)
• Mrs. Medwin (1900)
• The Birthplace (1903)
• The Beast in the Jungle (1903)
• The Jolly Corner (1908)