July 18, 2013

Review: "The Europeans" By Henry James

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The Europeans is an absolutely delightful novel!  Fun from the first page through the last.  Also, it is really more of a novella and can...
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Review: "Daisy Miller" By Henry James

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Henry James is a prismatic kind of fellow with his fiction.  I am beginning to understand that he likes to write about his characters and ac...

Review: "What Maisie Knew" By Henry James

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In the annals of classic fiction I have encountered some truly monstrous parents (some of the parents in Austen or Dickens certainly come ...
July 15, 2013

My Summer of Henry James--

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As you may have noticed from a number of my recent postings, I have been reading a lot of Henry James this summer.  Typically, every coupl...

Review: "The Portrait of a Lady" By Henry James

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One of the most enthralling and enchanting novels that I've read in a long, long time.  The Portrait of a Lady is early Henry James (...
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Review: "The Reef" By Edith Wharton

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Edith Wharton's The Reef was written in 1912 when she was essentially at her very best as a novelist, and I think her powers are quit...

Review: "The Touchstone" By Edith Wharton

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I just finished reading The Touchstone again, in conjunction with reading Henry James's The Aspern Papers .  I believe that The Touchst...

Review: "The Aspern Papers" By Henry James

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The Aspern Papers is a brilliant novella written by Henry James and serialized in the Atlantic in 1888.  In short, The Aspern Papers is...

Review: "Washington Square" By Henry James

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Some truly monstrous fathers can be found among the great works of fiction.  Shakespeare's King Lear and Titus Andronicus certainly ...

Review: "Roderick Hudson" By Henry James

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While Roderick Hudson was Henry James's second published novel ( Watch and Ward being the first and serialized in The Atlantic Month...