The American author Henry James (1843-1916) was one of the major novelists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works deal largely with the impact of Europe and its society on Americans. Henry James, the son of a theologian and the brother of t...
The first important fact in the life of Henry James is the wealth of his paternal grandfather, the Irish immigrant William James (1771-1832), who, when he died in Albany, New York, left a fortune of $3 million (based on salt, tobacco, real estate, and pu...
The first important fact in the life of Henry James is the wealth of his paternal grandfather, the Irish immigrant William James (1771-1832), who, when he died in Albany, New York, left a fortune of $3 million (based on salt, tobacco, real estate, and pu...
The Aspern Papers is a novella written by Henry James, originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1888, with its first book publication later in the same year. One of James' best-known and most acclaimed longer tales, The Aspern Papers is based on...
IT HAS BEEN in the concert hall that American music has made its mark. And the number three has been a charm. Just think of the mighty Third Symphonies of Copland, Schuman, Bernstein, and Harris! In comparison, our track record in the opera house...
"What are you up to?" What indeed? Biographical hound and literary scholar Henry Jarvis has inveigled the suspicious, resplendently dressed Mrs Prest into gaining entrance to the shuttered Venetian home of the sequestered Misses Bordereau and she and we want to know why. ...
