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Henry James


Born
in New York City, New York, The United States
April 15, 1843

Died
February 28, 1916

Genre
Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

Influences
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Honoré de Balzac, Ivan Turgenev, Gustave Flaubert ...more


Henry James was an American-British author. 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 philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
He is best known for his novels dealing with the social and marital interplay between émigré Americans, the English, and continental Europeans, such as The Portrait of a Lady. His later works, such as The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl were increasingly experimental. In describing the internal states of mind and social dynamics of his characters, James often wrote in a style in ...more

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Average rating: 3.57 · 486,554 ratings · 39,062 reviews · 4,191 distinct works â€� Similar authors
The Turn of the Screw
3.38 avg rating — 171,226 ratings — published 1898 — 4177 editions
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The Portrait of a Lady
3.80 avg rating — 83,785 ratings — published 1881 — 1953 editions
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Daisy Miller
3.37 avg rating — 36,747 ratings — published 1879 — 1232 editions
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Washington Square
3.70 avg rating — 24,880 ratings — published 1880 — 1178 editions
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The Wings of the Dove
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3.79 avg rating — 17,352 ratings — published 1902 — 7 editions
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The Ambassadors
3.63 avg rating — 12,825 ratings — published 1903 — 1590 editions
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3.77 avg rating — 11,687 ratings — published 1904 — 799 editions
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“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James
tags: kindness
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“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
― Henry James
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“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
― Henry James
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