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320 Henry James

The History of Literature

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The History of James's Fiction

There's no single work other than maybe the turn of the screw which is a ghost story that people read for sheer pleasure. Henry James never married and his father Henry James senior was heartbroken after he lost his will to live in 1882. His children all came back to visit him tried to lift his spirits but then they had to go off to their own lives. He'd written the portrait of a late Daisy Miller and  the portrait of a lady just a year or so later January of 1882.

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