Henry James, Jr., Author Scribner Book Company $29.95 (412p) ISBN 978-0-684-19146-1
Twenty years James's junior, Wharton was just at the outset of her literary career when the friendship of these two expatriate novelists blossomed. James, comfortably settled in London, found in Wharton's company the sustained intimacy which his...
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Henry James, Jr., Author Louisiana State University Press $25 (107p) ISBN 978-0-8071-1729-3
Monteiro ( Robert Frost and the New England Renaissance ) here culls from the many volumes of collected letters of James (1843-1916) and Adams (1838-1918) their correspondence to each other: 25 letters from James to Adams, four from James to Adams's
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Henry James, Jr., Author, Jack Kerouac, Author, Philip Horne, Editor Viking Books $35 (688p) ISBN 978-0-670-88563-3
By his subtitle, Horne (Henry James and Revision) explicitly rejects Leon Edel's contention in his four-volume (1974-1984) selection of James's letters that letters ""offer only fragments of a life,"" since the inner life is seldom exposed overtly...
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Henry James, Jr., Author, Susan E. Gunter, Editor, Steven H. Jobe, Editor . Univ. of Michigan $29.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-472-11009-4
The ongoing debate about Henry James's (1843–1916) sexuality finds suggestive new material in this collection of his loving letters to four young men in the later years of his life. Gunter and Jobe, two respected James scholars, present...
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