Born in America, Henry James was educated both there and in Europe before settling in London, where he was to spend most of his life, in 1876. His novels represent the culmination of the 19th-century realist tradition of Austen, George Eliot, Flauberty and Balzac, and a decisive step towards the experimental modernism of Woolf and T.S. Eliot. His works often focus upon an innocent American in Europe, and assess the qualities and dangers of both American and European culture at the time, as well as showing their vast differences.

    Includes the title story plus: The Birds ~ The Little Photographer ~ Monte Verita ~ The Apple Tree ~ The Old Man ~ The Split Second ~ No Motive.

    As Helen comes of age, so does her awareness grow of the African life around her. Her involvement, as a bohemian student, with young blacks leads her into complex relationships of emotion and action in a culture of dissension. About the Author: Nadine Gordimer Nadine Gordimer was born in Springs, in South Africa in 1923. She was educated at a convent school and spent a year at Witwaterstrand University. Since then, her life has been devoted to her writing. Her first novel, The Lying Days (1953), was based largely on her own life and set in her home town. In 1974, her novel The Conservationist, was joint winner of the Booker Prize for Fiction. Nadine Gordimer has been awarded fifteen honorary degrees from universities in USA, Belgium, South Africa, and from York, Oxford and Cambridge Universities. She was made a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and was judge of the Man Booker International Prize in 2007. She was also a founder of the Congress of South African Writers. In 1991 she was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, and in 2007, the Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur.

    There Mrs. Plumleigh-Bruce, archetypal colonel’s widow and the worst sort of dog-owner, is holding court. She has already attracted the more or less serious attentions of Mr. Stimpson (local estate agent and subterranean lecher) and Major Parry (something of a poet since his retirement). To Gorse, undisturbed by her rabbity-toothed charms, she represents simply an ideal opportunity to exercise his perverse and vicious genius...“Uniquely individual... a master. He is the novelist of innocence, appallingly vulnerable, and of malevolence, coming out of some mysterious darkness of evil.” ~ J.B. Priestly “A hypnotic writer.” ~ Time Out