these are the most essential books to read to understand the great legacy of Henry James. It is the book I have read more times than any other, even though — or because? — nothing much happens ...

THE. LEGEND OF THE MASTER (176 pp.) —Compiled by Simon Nowell-Smifh—Scribner ($3). Henry James.was the Winston Spencer Churchill of fiction. Portly and bald, and one of the greatest talkers in ...

Work by the National Trust to restore the writing desk of author Henry James will feature in a new series of the BBC's Hidden Treasures television programme. James lived at Lamb House in Rye, East ...

As a warm admirer of all that is worth while in Henry James's books, I dare assert that the only trouble with his later novels is that, from the point of view of all hon- est persons—let them ...

The author of Daisy Miller is ... When he was asked what he thought of Henry James, the late William Faulkner replied, “One of the nicest old ladies I ever met,” and so summed up this point ...

On Writers and Writing: Essays by Henry James, edited by Michael Gorra (New York Review Books, 408 pp., $24.95) The criticism of Henry James (1843–1916) is replete with imperiousness. We can hear this ...

cleaner things he loved—composing books, stories, plays, and essays. Henry James Comes Home arrives as a late companion piece to preeminent Jamesian scholar Peter Brooks’s earlier, similarly ...

by themselves, by what they undertake to do and how thoroughly they do it, Henry James’ later books are the work of a master. . . .” This magazine’s Wolcott Gibbs, to get back to the Guy ...

Work by the National Trust to restore the writing desk of author Henry James will feature in a new series of the BBC's Hidden Treasures television programme. James lived at Lamb House in Rye ...