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This collection of short stories written before James was twenty-five, originally appeared in American magazines, but was never before printed in book form in the United States. Unlike his later works, they have a simplicity of style and detailed characterization. In A Landscape Painter (1866), set in New England, Henry James, of all people, urges economy through a brusque comment by the story's twenty-three-year-old writer-hero: "When people have to economize with the dollars and cents, they have a right to be ...
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Freeport, NY 1970 hardcover Good in None jacket Ex-library with light wear (heavily bumped upper rear corners) but the usual markings (withdrawn stamp on top edge, label at ... spine foot, library stamp & corner clipped on front endpaper, and card pocket remnant on rear endpaper o/w a nice copy, solid & clean (no dust jacket)---Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press 1970, red cloth with decorated spine, hardcover (no dust jacket), 287pp, 5 2/4 x 8 3/4 SERIES-Short Story Index Reprint Series NOTES-Includes A Landscape Painter, Poor Richard, A Day of Days and A Most Extraordinary Case. Read more Show Less

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This collection of short stories written before James was twenty-five, originally appeared in American magazines, but was never before printed in book form in the United States. Unlike his later works, they have a simplicity of style and detailed characterization. In A Landscape Painter (1866), set in New England, Henry James, of all people, urges economy through a brusque comment by the story's twenty-three-year-old writer-hero: "When people have to economize with the dollars and cents, they have a right to be splendid in their feelings." Poor Richard (1867) is the tale of a stay-at-home lover during the Civil War. He is gallingly jealous of his love object's other suitors wearing the uniform and the glamor of war, and the feebleness of his courtship turns to strength only as the young woman, herself, becomes weakened by illness. In The Story of a Year a noncombatant in the same war later dies a hero's death, while in A Most Extraordinary Case (1868), a man dies of love and leaves a legacy to his successful rival.
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Henry James
Henry James was a master at tracing the social boundaries of the Gilded Age -- between Old and New World, Europe and America, desire and convention, men and women. He brought an invaluably clear-eyed, and critical, sensibility to America's evolving cultural mores.

Biography

Henry James (1843-1916), born in New York City, was the son of noted religious philosopher Henry James, Sr., and brother of eminent psychologist and philosopher William James. He spent his early life in America and studied in Geneva, London and Paris during his adolescence to gain the worldly experience so prized by his father. He lived in Newport, went briefly to Harvard Law School, and in 1864 began to contribute both criticism and tales to magazines. In 1869, and then in 1872-74, he paid visits to Europe and began his first novel, Roderick Hudson. Late in 1875 he settled in Paris, where he met Turgenev, Flaubert, and Zola, and wrote The American (1877). In December 1876 he moved to London, where two years later he achieved international fame with Daisy Miller. Other famous works include Washington Square (1880), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Princess Casamassima (1886), The Aspern Papers (1888), The Turn of the Screw (1898), and three large novels of the new century, The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904). In 1905 he revisited the United States and wrote The American Scene (1907). During his career, he also wrote many works of criticism and travel. Although old and ailing, he threw himself into war work in 1914, and in 1915, a few months before his death, he became a British subject. In 1916 King George V conferred the Order of Merit on him. He died in London in February 1916.

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    1. Date of Birth:
      April 15, 1843
    2. Place of Birth:
      New York, New York
    1. Date of Death:
      February 28, 1916
    2. Place of Death:
      London, England
    1. Education:
      Attended school in France and Switzerland; Harvard Law School, 1862-63

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