American Literature
Born into a wealthy cultured family, Henry James one of
the few authors in American literary history who did not have to worry about money. His father, Henry James, Sir was an imminent philosopher and
reformer, and his brother, William James, was to be the famous philosopher and psychologist. His early up bringing was usual--he was exposed to
the culture influence of Europe at a very early age. 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
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