Traces the life of the prominent nineteenth century American novelist, examines his major works, and tries to capture his complex personality.

Henry James: A Life

EDEL, LEON

Collins

In a collection of incisive essays in literary criticism, Edel provides psychological portraits of selected authors and their works

Stuff of Sleep and Dreams: Experiments in Literary Psychology

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Harpercollins

Traces the life of the prominent nineteenth century American novelist, examines his major works, and tries to capture his complex personality

Biographies & Memoirs

Harper&Row

Traces the life of the prominent nineteenth century American novelist, examines his major works, and tries to capture his complex personality

Author(s)Leon EdelPublisherPenguin Books LtdDate of Publication26/01/1978Language(s)EnglishFormatPaperbackISBN-100140551174ISBN-139780140551174GenreGeneral &amp; Literary FictionSeries TitlePeregrine Books

The Life of Henry James: v. 1 (Peregrine Books)

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Focusing on the last years of the American novelist's life, the author provides a vivid image of the man and artist

Henry James,: The master: 1901-1916

R. Hart-Davis

Henry James: The Middle Years, 1882-1895 Hardcover - 1962

Henry James: The Conquest of London, 1870-83 v. 2

J.B. Lippincott and Company

The American Scene is a book of travel writing by Henry James about his trip through the United States in 1904-1905. Ten of the fourteen chapters of the book were published in the North American Review, Harper's and the Fortnightly Review in 1905 and 1906. The first book publication was in 1907, and there were significant differences between the American and the English versions of the book. Without question the most controversial and critically discussed of James' travel books, The American Scene sharply attacked what James saw as the rampant materialism and frayed social structure of turn-of-the-century America. The book has generated controversy for its treatment of various ethnic groups and political issues. The book still has relevance to such current topics as immigration policy, environmental protection, economic growth, and racial tensions. -- from Wikipedia\nExcerpt: 
The following pages duly explain themselves, I judge, as to the Author's point of view and his relation to his subject; but I prefix this word on the chance of any suspected or perceived failure of such references. My visit to America had been the first possible to me for nearly a quarter of a century, and I had before my last previous one, brief and distant to memory, spent other years in continuous absence; so that I was to return with much of the freshness of eye, outward and inward, which, with the further contribution of a state of desire, is commonly held a precious agent of perception. I felt no doubt, I confess, of my great advantage on that score; since if I had had time to become almost as "fresh" as an inquiring stranger, I had not on the other hand had enough to cease to be, or at least to feel, as acute as an initiated native. I made no scruple of my conviction that I should understand and should care better and more than the most earnest of visitors, and yet that I should vibrate with more curiosity - on the extent of ground, that is, on which I might aspire to intimate intelligence at all - than the pilgrim with the longest list of questions, the sharpest appetite for explanations and the largest exposure to mistakes. 
I felt myself then, all serenely, not exposed to grave mistakes - though there were also doubtless explanations which would find me, and quite as contentedly, impenetrable.

American Scene

JAMES,HENRY

Literary

Indiana Univ. Pr

Literary biography

Indiana University Press

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Henry James: A Life

Stuff of Sleep and Dreams: Experiments in Literary Psychology

Henry James: A Life

Henry James: A Life

The Life of Henry James: v. 1 (Peregrine Books)

Henry James,: The master: 1901-1916

Henry James: The Conquest of London, 1870-83 v. 2

American Scene

Literary biography

Literary biography