290 authors,
one library.

George Payne Rainsford James was an English novelist and diplomat, appointed Historiographer Royal by William IV and later British consul in Massachusetts and Venice.

Henry James was an American novelist who settled in Europe and made the collision between the two continents his lifelong subject.

This volume pairs a novella with the analysis it provoked.

Jerome K. Jerome was orphaned at fifteen and worked as a railway clerk, a schoolmaster and a jobbing actor before Three Men in a Boat — meant as a serious travel guide to the Thames — turned

Mary Johnston was an American novelist from Virginia, largely self-taught after illness ended her schooling, who became one of the best-selling authors in the country with To Have and to Hol

Mór Jókai was a Hungarian novelist and the voice of his nation, who read out the demands of the 1848 revolution on the steps of the Pest museum and was saved from execution afterwards by his

Elizabeth Garver Jordan reported the Lizzie Borden trial as a young newspaperwoman, edited Harper's Bazar for many years, and as a reader at Harper & Brothers accepted the first novel of Sin

James Joyce was an Irish novelist who left Dublin at twenty-two and wrote about almost nothing else for the rest of his life.