The American

by Henry James

Overview

Reproduction of the original: The American by Henry James

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783732692804
Publisher:	Outlook Verlag
Publication date:	05/23/2018
Pages:	342
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

American author Henry James (1843–1916) spent most of his career in Europe and ultimately adopted British citizenship. A prolific writer of criticism, biography, and travel-related books and articles, James is known above all for his highly influential novels, which frequently explore the clash of Old and New World cultures.

Date of Birth:

April 15, 1843

Date of Death:

February 28, 1916

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Attended school in France and Switzerland; Harvard Law School, 1862-63

Editorial Reviews

A masterpiece of American romanticism in which James shows us his profound grasp of what he was ultimately to call ‘the Americo-European legend.’”

Leon Edel

The whole world was a rough place, as James would prove in fiction after fiction, brimming with pain and violence and darkness…One may see in The American his first great effort to take and give readers, in the largest sense of the words, the rough with the smooth.”

author of The Cambridge Companion to English Novel Adrian Poole