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Name: Henry James
Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Author: Leon Edel

Leon Edel’s biography of Henry James is a one‑volume, scholarly study that incorporates newly discovered material to illuminate the life of the American novelist born in 1843. It covers James’s education in both America and Europe, his relocation to London in 1876, and his literary career, which bridged the 19th‑century realist tradition of Austen, George Eliot, Flaubert, and Balzac with early modernist voices such as Virginia Woolf and T. S. Eliot. The work emphasizes James’s exploration of the contrasts and tensions between American and European cultures through the perspective of his protagonists, often innocent Americans navigating European society.

First publish date: 1931

Genre: Literary Fiction/Classic Literature

Authors: Leon Edel

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