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Henry James

Henry James (1843–1916) is among the supreme novelists in English — an American who made Europe his stage and consciousness his subject. In The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, and The Wings of the Dove he traced Americans abroad through drawing rooms, secrets, and moral choice with unmatched psychological precision. James wrote sentences that think: long, exacting, and alive to every shade of feeling between people. A bridge from realism to modernism, he rewarded slow reading and repaid it. Across twenty-five titles here, he remains essential for anyone seeking the novel as an art of inward life.

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