Tales of Henry James: The Texts of the Stories, the Author on His Craft, Background and Criticism by Henry James

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Daisy Millerappears in Daisy Miller: A Study

Daisy Miller is a young American woman of about seventeen who is traveling in Europe with her mother and young brother. Her father, a wealthy financier, remains at home in New York. Because of his wealth, Daisy is able to wear the finest fashions from Paris, although she favors girlish frills and ruffles. Daisy's mother is in poor health and prefers not to accompany her daughter on...

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Henry James Biographies (6)

Henry James

1,087 words, approx. 4 pages

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.Henr... Read more

Henry James

16,569 words, approx. 56 pages

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 $... Read more

Henry James

9,884 words, approx. 33 pages

Henry James was a highly self-conscious author with a systematic interest in the techniques of novel writing--an interest that culminated in the landmark prefaces to the New York Edition of his own wo... Read more

Henry James

9,299 words, approx. 31 pages

Henry James was one of the most prolific of major American writers, having written more than four million words of fiction and about the same amount of nonfiction; in addition, about fifteen thousand ... Read more

Henry James

10,823 words, approx. 37 pages

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 to... Read more

Henry James

19,139 words, approx. 64 pages

Biography EssayThe 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... Read more

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