American Literature
James was a voluminous writer. His whole life was a long career of continual fertile peoductivity.
The quantity of work filled up a good many volumes--novels, travel papers, critical assays, literary portraits, plays, autobiographies, and a series of
critical prefaces on the art of fiction. In addition, he was a copious letters writer and left a number of notebooks.The creative life of Henry James can
be divided in to three distinctive periods. In the first period (18651882), he produced a number of novels, among which, the most important include
The American, Daisy Miller which won him international fame and which reveals James' fascination with his "international theme", and The portrait
of a Lady, one of the greatest books that James ever wrote. The second period of his career extended from 1882 to 1895, in which he dropped the
"international theme" and wrote his tales of subtle studies of interpersonal relationships
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