Henry James

Born

in New York, New York, The United States

April 15, 1843

Died

February 28, 1916

Website

http://www2.newpaltz.edu/~hathaway/

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

Influences

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

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Henry James, OM, son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born author, one of the founders and leaders of a school of realism in fiction. He spent much of his life in England and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for a series of major novels in which he portrayed the encounter of America with Europe. His plots centered on personal relationships, the proper exercise of power in such relationships, and other moral questions. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allowed him to explore the phenomena of consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared ...more

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Henry James's Books

Average rating: 3.63 · 264,586 ratings · 14,961 reviews · 1,242 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, Patricia Crick (Annotations) 3.76 avg rating — 58,979 ratings — published 1881 — 494 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Turn of the Screw 3.45 avg rating — 65,389 ratings — published 1898 — 817 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daisy Miller 3.36 avg rating — 20,758 ratings — published 1878 — 463 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wings of the Dove by Henry James, Amy Bloom (Introduction), Pierre A. Walker (Notes) 3.80 avg rating — 13,540 ratings — published 1901 — 226 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Washington Square by Henry James, Michael Cunningham (Goodreads Author) (Afterword) 3.67 avg rating — 14,496 ratings — published 1880 — 362 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Bowl by Henry James, Gore Vidal (Introduction), Patricia Crick (Notes) 3.78 avg rating — 9,190 ratings — published 1904 — 219 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ambassadors by Henry James, Harry Levin 3.65 avg rating — 9,706 ratings — published 1903 — 300 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daisy Miller and Washington Square by Henry James, Jennie A. Kassanoff (Introduction) 3.85 avg rating — 7,213 ratings — published 1880 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers by Henry James, Anthony Curtis (Editor) 3.78 avg rating — 6,289 ratings — published 1898 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bostonians 3.59 avg rating — 5,318 ratings — published 1886 — 170 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Henry James…

Series by Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady (13 books)
by Henry James
3.82 avg rating — 578 ratings

Collected Travel Writings (2 books)
by Henry James, Richard Howard (Editor)
3.66 avg rating — 41 ratings

Quotes by Henry James

“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

4286 likes

“She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.”
― Henry James

2693 likes

“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
― Henry James

tags: beauty, english, literature, summer

1333 likes

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Mattatoio n. 5 di Kurt Vonnegut

16 votes, 23.5%

L'imprevedibile piano della scrittrice senza nome di Alice Basso

8 votes, 11.8%

Nel segno della pecora di Haruki Murakami

8 votes, 11.8%

Il caso Jane Eyre di Jasper Fforde

7 votes, 10.3%

Io e Mabel ovvero L'arte della falconeria di Helen Macdonald

7 votes, 10.3%

Ritratto di signora di Henry James

6 votes, 8.8%

L'amore bugiardo di Gillian Flynn

6 votes, 8.8%

Follia di Patrick McGrath

5 votes, 7.4%

La confraternita dei giardinieri di Andrea Wulf

3 votes, 4.4%

L'uomo del banco dei pegni di Edward Lewis Wallant

2 votes, 2.9%

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