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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.
May 22, 2024 · Henry James was an American novelist and, as a naturalized English citizen from 1915, a great figure in the transatlantic culture. His fundamental theme was the innocence and exuberance of the New World in clash with the corruption and wisdom of the Old, as illustrated in such works as Daisy Miller.
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.
Henry James, (born April 15, 1843, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Feb. 28, 1916, London, Eng.), U.S.-British novelist. Born to a distinguished family, the brother of William James, he was privately educated. He traveled frequently to Europe from childhood on; after 1876 he lived primarily in England.
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.
Traveling often throughout his long and productive life, Henry James wrote fiction and travel literature about Americans in Europe and Europeans in America during the great epoch of transatlantic tourism and exchange in the second half of the 19th century.
Henry James Biography. 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 ...
Jan 18, 2022 · Henry James (b. 1843–d. 1916) was born in New York City fifteen months after his brother William, the philosopher and psychologist, and five years before his sister, Alice, a brilliant diarist; two other brothers, Garth Wilkinson (Wilky) and Robertson, were born between Henry and Alice.
Mar 2, 2011 · 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. Born in New York, as a child he traveled extensively in Europe with his family.
Henry James, now considered one of the world’s greatest novelists, desperately wanted to be a successful playwright. He spent several different periods of his life writing plays, but...
