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Dec 20, 2023 · Of his more than 20 novels, dozens of story collections and novellas and volumes of criticism, letters, essays and poems, these are the most essential books to read to understand the great...
- Lauren Christensen
- The Portrait of a Lady (1881) - When James began this book he was a promising young writer with a special line in depicting the lives of Americans in Europe.
- The Golden Bowl (1904) - Sure, it’s hard, and you’ll feel proud of yourself when you finish. It’s meant to be hard, because James’ characters are all trying to figure out what the others know about a situation that none of them can quite bring him or herself to name.
- “The Aspern Papers” (1888) - Lies and secrets, Venice and treachery. An old woman guards a clutch of love letters from a long-dead poet; an editor wants them and will do almost anything to get them.
- What Maisie Knew (1897) - One reviewer said this novel was fully as indecent as if it had been written in French. It’s the first important novel in English to turn on a child custody case, and more timely now than ever.
Henry James OM ( 15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language.
Let our brief introduction to 'the Master' give you some pointers. Born on the 15th of April 1843, 2018 marked the 175th anniversary of the birth of legendary writer Henry James. Nominated for the Nobel Prize three times and known by contemporary fellow novelists as ‘the Master’, approaching a writer of this calibre for the first time is ...
Apr 24, 2020 · Analysis of Henry James’s Stories. By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on April 24, 2020 • ( 1 ) Henry James (15 April 1843 –28 February 1916) believed that an author must be granted his donnée, or central idea, and then be judged on the execution of his material. James’s stories are about members of high society.
Henry James, whose mastery of the psychological novel markedly influenced twentieth-century literature, was born in New York City. His father, Henry James, Sr., was an unconventional thinker who had inherited considerable wealth and was a follower of Swedenborgian mysticism, a belief system devoted to the study of philosophy, theology, and ...
Mar 2, 2011 · Deborah Wynne. LAST REVIEWED: 02 March 2011. LAST MODIFIED: 02 March 2011. DOI: 10.1093/obo/9780199799558-0036. Introduction. Henry James (b. 1843–d. 1916), a prolific writer of fiction, travel writing, essays, book reviews, and plays, was one of the most influential writers of the 19th century.
