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Henry James has 3969 books on Goodreads with 1162496 ratings. Henry James’s most popular book is The Turn of the Screw.
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Henry James. Henry James was an American-British author. He...
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64 books based on 8 votes: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry...
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Dec 20, 2023 · James’s last big novel, “ The Golden Bowl ” (1904), is about a salacious love rectangle among the protagonist, Maggie Verver; her widowed father, a financier named Adam Verver; an Italian ...
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Henry James. 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. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and ...
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- Harvard Law School
- 1863–1916
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- 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.
Washington Square Henry James 553 downloads. The Figure in the Carpet Henry James 549 downloads. The Aspern Papers Henry James 522 downloads. The Golden Bowl — Complete Henry James 510 downloads. The American Henry James 455 downloads. The Great English Short-Story Writers, Volume 1 413 downloads. The Turn of the Screw Henry James 412 downloads.