A Landscape Painter

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, th...