Henry James

Henry James (fifteen april 1,843th - twenty eighth Feb. 1,916th) was an American novelist who is considered one of the key figures from the realism in literature.



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*1 Biography  ==[Biography edit] == Henry James was the son of [https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James_sr. Henry James sr.] And the younger brother of psychologist and philosopher William James. He grew up in an intellectual environment of philosophers and politicians who were friends or acquaintances of his father. They included people like Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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When James was young, he traveled all through Europe. He was taught by a tutor in Paris, London, Bologna, Bonn and Geneva. Below the age of 19, he began his law studies at Harvard. He did not complete the study. He was more interested in literature and delved into the English, German and French literary classics. The Russianwriters he read inTRANSLATION.

James spent the greatest time of his life in Europe, where most of his novels take place. At the end of his life he was British citizen. He was disappointed in the United States due to the fact that they did not interfere in the First World War and bustle in this way his connection with his new homeland. James is carrying the distinction of Order Order of Merit. ==[Romans edit] == James' novels are considered to be realistic, but he has been influenced by diverse genres: travelogue (Italian Hours), ghost story (The Turn of the Screw) and thedetective (The Aspern Papers). His language can be characterized as a complex and poetic, but his short stories are simpler and clearer than his longer works.

Henry James considered himself Ambassadors as his best novel, though critics do not always share his opinion. His most famous novel is probably The Portrait of a Lady.The story is about the American woman Isabel Archer who just arrived in Europe and is looking for its future in the welcoming Italy. The novels of James are often seen associal criticismAND PUT the Old World (Europe) often facing the New World (United States). It is the Old World for an alluring, artistic, corrupting society, while people in the New World opened, assertive and coldly.

At the end of the 20th century there are several books of Henry James filmed. In 1968 The Portrait of a Lady was filmed for television. Merchant Ivory Productions made ​​silver screen versions of The Europeans (1979) and The Bostonians (1984). The Portrait of a Lady was in 1996 again a film by Jane Campion with starring Nicole Kidmanand John Malkovich.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In addition, the book The Turn Of The Screw adapted into anOPERA by Benjamin Britten in 1954. ==<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);"><span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;">[Bibliography edit] == Cover of the novelWashington Square (1881)*Roderick Hudson (1875)
 * The American (1877)
 * Daisy Miller (1878)
 * The Europeans (1878)
 * The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
 * Washington Square (1881)
 * A Little Tour in France (1884)
 * The Bostonians (1886)
 * The Princess Casamassima (1886)
 * The Aspern Papers (1888)
 * The Tragic Muse (1890)
 * Guy Domville (1895)
 * The Altar of the Dead (1895), short stories, in 1978 aFILM by François Truffaut as La Chambre verte
 * The Spoils of Poynton (1897)
 * What Maisie Knew (1897)
 * The Turn of the Screw (1898)
 * In the Cage (1898)
 * The Awkward Age (1899)
 * The Wings of the Dove (1902)
 * The Ambassadors (1903)
 * The Beast in the Jungle (1903)
 * The Golden Bowl (1904)
 * English Hours (1905)
 * The American Scene (1907)
 * Italian Hours (1909)