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Henry James has 4177 books on Goodreads with 1175937 ratings. Henry James’s most popular book is The Turn of the Screw.
Henry James was born in New York City on April 15, 1843, into an affluent and socially prominent family. His father, Henry James, Sr., moved among a wide circle of intellectual leaders of the time and exposed his children to the cultural advantages of New England and, more especially, Europe; before he reached his eighteenth birthday, the younger James had lived abroad for extended periods on three separate occasions.
Aug 24, 2012 · 9. “The Turn of the Screw” (1898) - The longest and greatest and scariest of James’ ghost stories. An isolated house, a high-strung governess, two charming children, and two dead servants. I ...
The Portrait of a Lady, novel by Henry James, published in three volumes in 1881. The masterpiece of the first phase of James’s career, the novel is a study of Isabel Archer, a young American woman of great promise who travels to Europe and becomes a victim of her own provincialism.
Henry James. Profiles. How Colm Tóibín Burrowed Inside Thomas Mann’s Head. In writing his new novel, the Irish author spent years tracing the secret yearnings of Mann—who, he says, played a ...
Study Guide. Overview. The Portrait of a Lady, published in 1881, is a novel by Henry James that tells the story of Isabel Archer, a young American woman who travels to Europe and becomes entangled in a complicated web of relationships and personal choices. The novel is often considered one of James’s most important works and is notable for ...
Jun 13, 2018 · Henry James (1843-1916) was a prolific writer of short stories and novellas – what he himself called ‘tales’ – and a number of them are widely read and studied. In this post, we’ve picked just five of James’s very best tales, and said a little bit about them. ‘ The Beast in the Jungle ’. In this longer tale from 1903 – it’s ...
