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Henry James, Jr.

By William Dean Howells

2019-11-02 00:15:09

The events of Mr. James's life—as we agree to understand events—may be told in very few words. His race is Irish on his father's side and Scotch on his mother's, to which mingled strains the generalizer may attribute if he likes, that union of vi ... Read more
The events of Mr. James's life—as we agree to understand events—may be told in very few words. His race is Irish on his father's side and Scotch on his mother's, to which mingled strains the generalizer may attribute if he likes, that union of vivid expression and dispassionate analysis which has characterized his work from the first. There are none of those early struggles with poverty, which render the lives of so many distinguished Americans monotonous reading, to record in his case: the cabin hearth-fire did not light him to the youthful pursuit of literature; he had from the start all those advantages which, when they go too far, become limitations. Less

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File size19.896 KB
Print pages24
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1514634394
Willam Dean Howells was a novelist, short story writer, magazine editor, and mentor who wrote for various magazines, including the Atlantic Monthly and Harper's Magazine. In January 1866 James Fie...

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