By Henry James • Introduction by Alan Hollinghurst

In 1914, Henry James began work on a major novel about the immense new fortunes of America's Gilded Age. After an absence of more than twenty years, James had returned for a visit to his native country; what he found there filled him with profound dismay. In The Ivory Tower, his last book, the characteristic pattern underlying so much of his fiction—in which American "innocence"is transformed by its encounter with European "experience"—receives a new twist: raised abroad, the hero comes home to America to confront, as James puts it, "the black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions." Set among the great houses and sweeping seaviews of Newport, Rhode Island, with the backroom deals and enduring animosities of New York's financial world lurking in the background, The Ivory Tower explores the predicaments of the heirs to two rival tycoons. James died in 1916 with this novel unfinished, but leaving behind a "treatment," charting the further progress of his story. This fascinating scenario, one of only two to survive among James's papers, is published here, with a striking essay by Ezra Pound.
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by Henry James • Introduction by Jean Strouse

Henry James's last published novel is an effervescent comedy of money and manners. Breckenridge Bender, a very rich American with a distinct resemblance to J.P. Morgan, arrives in England with the purpose of acquiring some great art; he is directed to the estate of the debt-ridden Lord Theign. But plutocrat and aristocrat come into unexpected conflict when a young connoisseur, out to establish his own reputation, declares a prize painting from the lord's collection to be in fact an even rarer, and pricier, work than had been thought.
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by Henry James • Introduction by Louis Begley

This terse and startling novel is the story of the struggle for possession and of its devastating consequences. Three women seek to secure the affections of one man, while he, in turn, tries to satisfy them all. In the middle of this contest of wills stands his unwitting and vulnerable young daughter.
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