'Henry James' in E-books en luisterboeken

A governess is hired by a bachelor to take care of his nephew and niece. She has barely arrives at the house that she starts seeing ghosts and having other supernatural visions. She decides to share her frightening experience with the maid of the house,...

`What Maise Knew‘ (1897) should perhaps have been titled `Divorce for Dummies` instead. In this tense and clever novel, Henry James lays out with perfect clarity what not to do when your child becomes one of divorce, as in do the absolute opposite of ev...

Christopher Newman, a somewhat awkward but well-meaning American businessman traveling in Europe for the first time, meets and falls in love with the aristocratic young widow Claire de Bellegarde. But her French family does not like his American ways an...

Catherine is well on her way to becoming a spinster. She‘s 21 and part of New York‘s upper-class society, but she has never had a flirt and is plain-looking without the sparkling personality to make up for it. Or so her father thinks. Because when the h...

Originally published in 1875 as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly, Roderick Hudson is a One has the money but not the talent. One has the talent but not the money. It would seem that Rowland Mallet and Roderick Hudson were meant to meet. A rich and sensi...

Luister naar "Een salonstuk" van Gary Brandner en je weet meteen: nagelbijten. Een salonstuk Juist het huis dat hij zocht Een gevaarlijke man Koelte Tot op de leter, Harry Moeder weet het beter deel 1 Moeder weet het beter deel 2 Tactiek bij een proces...

De groeten van Guy de Maupassant en trawanten en of u maar even wilt luisteren... Boul de Suif Twee vrienden Het spijt me meneer Briggs Een man uit Glasgow Het kind Vermist De meermin Het concert Het tweede talent Die nacht in Dresden Ratten Iemand vert...

Een rijke, zelfbewuste Amerikaanse vrouw emigreert naar Europa en wijst, uit angst haar zelfstandigheid te verliezen, diverse huwelijksaanzoeken af, maar trouwt uiteindelijk met een man die slechts uit is op haar geld.

Henry James is as solitary in the history of the novel as Shakespeare is in the history of poetry' Graham Greene Isabel Archer's main aim in life is to protect her independence. She is not interested in settling down and compromising her freedom for the...