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James, Henry

Born Apr. 15, 1843, in New York; died Feb. 28, 1916, in London. American writer.

In the novel Roderick Hudson (1876) James described how the talent of a sculptor, misunderstood by bourgeois society, was destroyed. The blasted hopes of women in love who are deceived by predatory scoundrels are dealt with in the novels Washington Square (1881; Russian translation, 1881) and The Portrait of a Lady (1881). The novel The American (1877; Russian translation, 1880) departs from realism. Its hero, the millionaire Newman, is portrayed as the embodiment of selflessness. The novel The Bostonians (1886) ridicules the democratic traditions of American reformers and Utopians, and Princess Casamassima (1886) caricatures the revolutionary movement in Europe.

In the novel The Tragic Muse (1890), James juxtaposed art and public life. He cultivated a refined psychologism in the novels The Sacred Fount (1901), The Ambassadors (1903), and The Golden Bowl (1904). Of his later works, the short stories and novellas about the tragic fate of the artist in the world of property owners are the best (“The Aspern Papers,” “The Beast in the Jungle,” and “The Figure in the Carpet”).

WORKS

The Complete Tales, vols. 1-12. London, 1962-64.
In Russian translation:
“Dezi Miller.” In the collection Amerikanskaia novella, vol. 1. Moscow, 1958.

REFERENCES

Edgar, P. Henry James, Man and Author. New York, 1964.
Henry James. Edited by T. Tanner. [London, 1968.] (Bibliography, pp. 341-43).
Powers, L. H. H. James. New York, 1970.

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They appreciated or sneered at the morning editorials, jumped from labor conditions in New Zealand to Henry James and Brander Matthews, passed on to the German designs in the Far East and the economic aspect of the Yellow Peril, wrangled over the German elections and Bebel's last speech, and settled down to local politics, the latest plans and scandals in the union labor party administration, and the wires that were pulled to bring about the Coast Seamen's strike.

Martin Eden by London, Jack View in context

Yet here he was going about the country clipping small boys over the ear-hole, and flinging loaves of bread at bank-clerks as if he were Henry James or Marie Corelli.

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, Pelham Grenville View in context

Have you read a queer psychological story by Henry James, of two persons who so perpetually missed meeting each other by accident that they began to feel quite frightened of each other, and to think it was fate?

The Wisdom Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context

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