Author: | Henry James |
Subcategory: | History & Criticism |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | Kessinger Publishing, LLC (May 23, 2010) |
Pages: | 30 pages |
Category: | Fiction and Literature |
Rating: | 4.1 |
Other formats: | lit txt rtf azw |
And the writing of Henry James just doesn't do it for me. He needs to learn the art of the 5-sentence paragraph. James insisted that writers in Great Britain and America should be allowed the greatest freedom possible in presenting their view of the world, as French authors were.
And the writing of Henry James just doesn't do it for me. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and unreliable narrators in his own novels and tales brought a new depth and interest to realistic fiction, and foreshadowed the modernist work of the twentieth century.
He is best known for a number of novels showing Americans encountering Europe and Europeans
He is best known for a number of novels showing Americans encountering Europe and Europeans. His method of writing from a character's point of view allowed him to explore issues related to consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and unreliable narrators brought a new depth to narrative fiction
Henry James, OM, son of theologian Henry James S. brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born author, one of the founders and leaders of a school of realism in fiction
Henry James, OM, son of theologian Henry James S. brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born author, one of the founders and leaders of a school of realism in fiction. He spent much of his life in England and became a British subject shortly before his death
This Library of America volume, the first of five of Henry James’s short fiction, brings together his first twenty-four published stories, thirteen never collected by James. In The Romance of Certain Old Clothes, and The Last of the Valerii, James begins to work with the supernatural and fantastic motifs that would continue to surface in his work.
LibriVox recording of The Last of the Valerii, by Henry James. Read by Nicholas Clifford. An unnamed American painter resident in Rome serves as narrator in this story, watching as his god-daughter Martha, becomes the wife of Prince Marco Valerio. The young bride is eager to use some of her American fortune in the service of archeology at the Villa Valerio, her husband's somewhat run down Roman house.
Read unlimited books and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843 James published his first. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843 James published his first story, ‘A Tragedy of Error’, in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated to London, where he remained for the vast majority of the rest of his life, becoming a British citizen in 1915.
Электронная книга "The Last of the Valerii (1874)", Henry James. Эту книгу можно прочитать в Google Play Книгах на компьютере, а также на устройствах Android и iOS. Выделяйте текст, добавляйте закладки и делайте заметки, скачав книгу "The Last of the Valerii (1874)" для чтения в офлайн-режиме.
An unnamed American painter resident in Rome serves as narrator in this story, watching as his god-daughter Martha, becomes the wife of Prince Marco Valerio. Martha is overjoyed, but it is soon clear that her husband is overcome by the discovery, and overcome in ways.
This is a list of the works of Henry James (15 April 1843 – 28 February 1916), an American writer who spent the bulk of his career in Britain. Watch and Ward (1871). Roderick Hudson (1875). The Europeans (1878). Washington Square (1880). The Portrait of a Lady (1881). The Bostonians (1886). The Princess Casamassima (1886). The Reverberator (1888). The Tragic Muse (1890). The Other House (1896). The Spoils of Poynton (1897). What Maisie Knew (1897).