/lit/ - Literature

>>12954279
It's not an entry-level novel but if you enjoy it, I guess you can skip a few steps in the related chart

>>12954279
The story to start with is Daisy Miller, imo

>starting with The Golden Bowl

>>12954361
Is this implying that The Turn Of The Screw is comparable in difficulty to his late works? Should I hold off on reading it? I read Daisy Miller and loved it and am wondering if I should read The Turn Of The Screw or The Portrait Of A Lady next

>>12954361
all these covers make them seem their full of 1800s posh fuckery. are they messed up and dark in any way or is it just high/middle class drama?

Is pic related a good collection of stories? Worth reading? It's from volume 1 of the Everyman Collected Stories. All I've read from James is The American and Daisy Miller

>>12954689
It's basically "posh drama" I guess. But very well done. The American gets pretty dark at the end. His schtick from what I've been able to gather is a sort of America meets Europe thing, and the conflicts often stem from the difference of mentality between these two peoples. I'm this poster >>12954697 so I've only read two of his works so far.

>>12954689
He doesn't have grisly murders, but he does have some of the most realistically despicable characters in fiction. The parents in What Maisie Knew spring to mind
>>12954697
Looks a good selection .

>>12954681
no, it's easy enough - when it comes to short stories, I guess the chronological order mainly makes sense if you absolutely wanna read everything

>>12955727
What brings people to write posts like this?

>>12955727
>He holds a BA in English Literature from Ohio Wesleyan University and an MBA from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University
holy fuck this is an actual retard

>>12955727
Not really fair because you quickly get into the groove but here's Henry James for comparison:

The story had held us, round the fire, sufficiently breathless, but except the obvious remark that it was gruesome, as on Christmas Eve in an old house a strange tale should essentially be, I remember no comment uttered till somebody happened to note it as the only case he had met in which such a visitation had fallen on a child. The case, I may mention, was that of an apparition in just such an old house as had gathered us for the occasion—an appearance, of a dreadful kind, to a little boy sleeping in the room with his mother and waking her up in the terror of it; waking her not to dissipate his dread and soothe him to sleep again, but to encounter also herself, before she had succeeded in doing so, the same sight that had shocked him. It was this observation that drew from Douglas—not immediately, but later in the evening—a reply that had the interesting consequence to which I call attention. Some one else told a story not particularly effective, which I saw he was not following. This I took for a sign that he had himself something to produce and that we should only have to wait. We waited in fact till two nights later; but that same evening, before we scattered, he brought out what was in his mind.

>>12954279
>buying books that are legally freely available
y tho