Henry James’s Venice was a “city of intense beauty and deep secrets” that he transformed into novels, letters, stories, and ...

On view from October 19, 2017 through January 21, 2018, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will host the Henry James and American Painting exhibition to explore how the artist’s literary works ...

The Library of America recently brought out the sixth and final volume in its series of Henry James reprints. The latest gathers the final novels: The Ambassadors (1903), The Golden Bowl (1904), and ...

In 1911, a Boston publisher called Gorham Press brought out a small scarlet-bound book with gilt-edged pages. The title was written in gold lettering on the cover: “The Henry James Year Book.” Inside ...

MOBILE, Alabama-- "I had done a few things and earned a few pence ... ." So begins the Henry James short story "The Figure in the Carpet," originally penned in 1896. After reading this story recently, ...

To mark the centenary of Henry James's death, Frances Wilson celebrates the enigmatic life and talents of the novelist known as The Master “I see ghosts everywhere”, Henry James once said. The author ...

In his short story “The Next Time,” Henry James has his narrator, a literary critic, remark of the admirers of a novelist named Ray Limbert: “We are a numerous band, partakers of the same repose, who ...

THE. LEGEND OF THE MASTER (176 pp.) —Compiled by Simon Nowell-Smifh—Scribner ($3). Henry James.was the Winston Spencer Churchill of fiction. Portly and bald, and one of the greatest talkers in ...

One mark of a masterpiece is that it doesn’t stay where you left it last. When I read Henry James’s novel “The Portrait of a Lady” for the first time, just after college, I felt the full pathos of ...