Description: Selected Letters of Henry James, Paperback by James, Henry; Edel, Leon, ISBN 0374527431, ISBN-13 9780374527433, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Legend has tended to preserve Henry James as "The Master" that Joseph Conrad called him, a rather long-winded Olympian given to great utterances on the art of fiction and the writing of profound psychological studies. The real-life figure revealed in these letters is more terse, and even astringent, a professional writer, an eager observer of life, a man who delighted in meeting people and who made an art of friendship, but who did not hesitate to descend into the marketplace of letters and get the best possible price for his Edel designed this selection to show the kinds of letters James wrote--to his family, his contemporaries, to would-be writers--letters injected with irony and obdurate truth. Here are letters to Conrad, Wells, Galsworthy, Henry Adams, Howells, Edith Wharton, Fanny Kemble--to great Victorians as well as those who bridged that era and the modern one.
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Book Title: Selected Letters of Henry James
Number of Pages: 235 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Topic: Literary, American / General
Publication Year: 1999
Item Height: 0.6 in
Genre: Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 12.3 Oz
Author: Henry James
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
