Affairs of the Heart

Disc 1
Episode 1: Emma
Based on "Lord Beauprey"

Emma Gosselin and Guy Beauprey have been friends since childhood, but their relationship takes a twist when he inherits a family fortune. Guy asks Emma to enter into an engagement of convenience to ward off his more persistent admirers. An amorous American complicates matters for Emma, as do the machinations of her meddling mother.

Episode 2: Bessie
Based onAn International Episode

Everything that American Bessie Alden knows and loves about England and the aristocracy comes from books. When she meets the charming and eager Lord Lambeth, he seems like the perfect catch. However, Lambeth’s mother moves to block the romance. Can Bessie outmaneuver her?

Episode 3: Kate
Based on "The Bench of Desolation"

When bookstore owner Herbert Dodd breaks off his engagement to Kate Cookham, she embarks on a drastic course of action both to ruin him and to win him back. Despite Herbert’s mounting enmity, Kate sticks to her plan, vowing to repay her former lover—with interest.

Disc 2
Episode 4: Daisy
Based onDaisy Miller

With scant regard for convention, upstate New Yorker Daisy Miller flirts her way from Lake Geneva to Rome. Her actions dismay admirer Frederick Winterbourne, whose English reserve prevents him from being as demonstrative as his Italian rivals. It takes a tragedy to reveal the hidden feelings on all sides.

Episode 5: Leonie
Based on "Nona Vincent"

Leonie Alsager will do almost anything to make her young lover’s new play a success, including secretly financing its production. But she soon realizes what success will really require—and its high personal cost. Leonie must decide whether she’s willing to pay the price.

Episode 6: Elizabeth
Based on "The Great Condition"

Bertram Braddle and Henry Chilver compete for the affections of Elizabeth Damerel, a mysterious woman from the American Midwest. While Henry rushes headlong into romance, Bertram investigates the secrets of Elizabeth’s former life.

• Biography of Henry James
• Cast filmographies

Packaging: Boxed set
Run Time: 302 minutes
Format: Full screen
Number of discs: 2
Language: English
Subtitles: N/A
Color or B&W: Color
CC: No
SDH: No
Region Code: 1
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Rating: N/A

"Addictive episodes"—Blogcritics Magazine

"None of these works have received better treatment cinematically."—Video Librarian

"Enchantingly good… Sumptuous and not to be missed."—MemorableTV.com

Disc 1
Episode 1: Catherine
Based onWashington Square

Unable to match the elegance of her dead mother or meet the expectations of her calculating father, clumsy and shy Catherine Sloper seems set to blindly fall for the charms of an attractive young fortune hunter. However, there may be more to Catherine than meets the eye.

Episode 2: Adela
Based on"The Marriages"

Adela Chart enjoys an easy, comfortable home life. Then her widowed father announces his intention to marry the hated Mrs. Churchley and her brother begins an affair that could derail his planned diplomatic career. Feeling her security threatened, Adela devises a plot to eliminate both female interlopers in one stroke.

Episode 3: Miss Tita
Based onThe Aspern Papers

A literary scholar takes up lodging in an elderly woman’s crumbling Venetian mansion to get his hands on valuable love letters written to her by a Romantic era poet. He also enlists the help of her middle-aged niece, Miss Tita, who quickly becomes smitten with him. Soon Tita decides to find out whether the letters might lead her to love.

Episode 4: Grace
Based on"Covering End"

In order to keep the country house he has just inherited, an impoverished and politically radical aristocrat faces a stark proposition: marry the daughter of the businessman who holds the mortgage and run for Parliament as a Conservative. But a wealthy young American widow named Grace Gracedew could provide a way out—both for the desperate daughter and the struggling gentleman.

Disc 2
Episode 5: Milly
Based onThe Wings of the Dove

Egged on by his money-hungry fiancée, Robert Merton charms a severely ill heiress named Milly Theale. As Milly nears death, she makes a decision about her will that has unforeseen and dramatic consequences for the engaged couple.

Episode 6: Flora
Based on "Glasses"

"Abnormally pretty" Flora Saunt fears that her fiancé, Lord Iffield, will not marry her if he discovers her secret: eyesight so bad that in private she must wear unflattering surgical spectacles. In her determination to overcome her disability, Flora risks losing the love of another suitor devoted to her despite her fading looks.

Episode 7: Mary and Louisa
Based on "The Tone of Time" and "The Real Thing"

When Louisa Bridgenorth commissions a generic portrait of "an extremely handsome, distinguished man of not more than thirty," the painter passes the job to fellow artist Mary Tredick. Only when the commission is completed do the two women meet—and recognize each other as former rivals for the love of the portrait’s subject, the once dashing Leopoldo Visconti. The encounter sets off a struggle for possession of the painting every bit as intense as the earlier struggle for the man.

• Biography of Henry James
• Cast filmographies

Packaging: Boxed set
Run Time: 351 minutes
Format: Full screen
Number of discs: 2
Language: English
Subtitles: N/A
Color or B&W: Color
CC: No
SDH: No
Region Code: 1
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Rating: N/A

"Addictive episodes"—Blogcritics Magazine

"None of these works have received better treatment cinematically."—Video Librarian

"Enchantingly good… Sumptuous and not to be missed."—MemorableTV.com