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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 legacy...
May 22, 2024 · Henry James’s career was one of the longest and most productive—and most influential—in American letters. A master of prose fiction from the first, he practiced it as a fertile innovator, enlarged the form, and placed upon it the stamp of a highly individual method and style.
May 30, 2024 · The Turn of the Screw, novella by Henry James, published serially in Collier’s Weekly in 1898 and published in book form later that year. One of the world’s most famous ghost stories, the tale is told mostly through the journal of a governess and depicts her struggle to save her two young charges.
Sep 8, 2023 · Learn about Henry James’s ‘The Turn of the Screw’—the classic ghost story that inspired (among many other things) Netflix’s ‘The Haunting of Bly Manor.’
Nov 21, 2023 · Read the Henry James biography and learn about his iconic novels and other writings. Explore who Henry James was and the influence he had on American literature.
May 30, 2024 · Henry James (born June 3, 1811, Albany, N.Y., U.S.—died Dec. 18, 1882, Cambridge, Mass.) was an American philosophical theologian, the father of the novelist Henry James and the philosopher William James.
Dec 14, 2023 · An introduction to Anglo-American author Henry James (1843-1916), suggesting the best entry points to the famous and famously difficult writer's works.
Feb 19, 2024 · Henry James, OM (April 15, 1843 – February 28, 1916) was an American writer who spent most of his writing career in Britain. He is regarded as one of the key...
Nov 14, 2023 · In "The Real Thing," written by Henry James, artifice, regarding art, is a glorified representation of reality and, therefore, possesses a greater quality of realism than reality itself.
Oct 23, 2023 · Henry James has long been recognized as one of the most important theorists of the novel. His extensive reflections on fiction, together with his overriding concern with questions of ethics, explains why his work is of such of importance to contemporary novelists, such as Rachel Cusk, Maggie Nelson, and Ali Smith.
