Henry James

About

From Wikipedia

Henry James was an American author, who became a British subject in the last year of his life. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of renowned philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.

Other Resources

• en.wikipedia.org

• Study Guide: The Turn of the Screw

  As an author of the nineteenth-century, James’ writing bridged the gap between literary realism and literary modernism. Moreover, James is considered a master of ghost stories, and the Turn of the Screw remains one of the most popular of the genre.

Schools

Harvard University

Private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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Notable Works

• What Maisie Knew
• The Whole Family
• The Tragic Muse
• The Reverberator
• The Princess Casamassima
• The Portrait of a Lady
• The Jolly Corner
• The Ivory Tower
• The Figure in the Carpet
• The Coxon Fund
• The Beast in the Jungle
• The Author of Beltraffio
• The Aspern Papers
• The Altar of the Dead
• Roderick Hudson
• Picture and Text
• Italian Hours
• Hawthorne
• Greville Fane
• Glasses
• English Hours
• Daisy Miller
• Brooksmith
• A Passionate Pilgrim
• A Bundle of Letters
• William Wetmore Story and His Friends
• Watch and Ward
• Washington Square
• The Wings of the Dove
• The Two Magics
• The Story of a Year
• The Spoils of Poynton
• The Sense of the Past
• The Sacred Fount
• The Romance of Certain Old Clothes
• The Real Thing
• The Pupil
• The Private Life
• The Outcry
• The Other House
• The Middle Years
• The Liar
• The Lesson of the Master
• The Last of the Valerii
• The Great Good Place
• The Golden Bowl
• The Europeans
• The Death of the Lion
• The Bostonians
• The Birthplace
• The Awkward Age
• Theatricals: Second Series
• Theatricals
• The American Scene
• The American
• The Ambassadors
• Sir Edmund Orme
• Owen Wingrave
• Notes on Novelists
• Notes of a Son and Brother
• Notebooks of Henry James
• Mrs. Medwin
• Madame de Mauves
• In the Cage
• Guy Domville
• Essays in London and Elsewhere
• Confidence
• A Small Boy and Others
• A London Life
• A Little Tour In France
• A Little Tour in France

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