NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 16, 1992
"And it's as a mirror—a very Jamesian one, with its center of consciousness and unobtrusive narrator—that this fine and readable biography functions. (Twenty-four pages of b&w photographs—not seen.)"
Subtle, complex, elusive Henry James—a writer who saw life as a history of changing perceptions and changing masks—demands all the formidable scholarly skills and narrative art that Kaplan demonstrated in his biographies of two other monumental 19th- century figures, Charles Dickens (1988) and Thomas Carlyle (1983).
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NONFICTION
Released: Oct. 1, 1996
"Too bad his biographer can't claim the same. (16 pages b&w photos, not seen)"
NONFICTION
Released: April 1, 1999
"Although Gordon works hard to detach Minny and Fenimore from James's shadow, she can't quite unravel his strategies to keep his private life private. (16 pages b&w photos, not seen)"
A sharply observed but ultimately frustrated view of the Master, as reflected through the lives of one woman who inspired his art and another who shared in his dedication to fiction.
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2003
"But Maisie is not to be missed."
This fourth volume of the Library's ongoing edition of The Master's complete novels includes four that immediately preceded his later masterpieces.
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FICTION
Released: March 1, 2004
" Still, the tenacious reader alone will have to determine whether and which of these frothy stories is really the work of the great Henry James."
Twenty-four stories, newly attributed to the young Henry James although unsigned by him, range from the slight and sentimental to the pleasingly melodramatic.
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NONFICTION
Released: Nov. 20, 2007
"James's relentless work habits produced a frequently stunning oeuvre. His biographer's focus on the novelist's daily rounds in an otherwise quiet life is just as relentless and demanding, but far less artful."
This sequel to
Henry James: The Young Master (1996, etc.) chronicles, in numbingly Jamesian detail, the expatriate writer's attempt, in his social life and his work, to create a venue for "large & confident action--splendid & supreme creation."
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NONFICTION
Released: Aug. 27, 2012
"Not for all readers, but Gorra's approach will appeal to scholars, fans of the James family, and lovers of important novels and those who create them."
Gorra (English/Smith Coll.;
The Bells in Their Silence: Travels Through Germany, 2004, etc.) blends a focused biography of Henry James (1843–1916) with the story of his composition of
The Portrait of a Lady (1881).
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