Henry James

Auteur

Fred Kaplan is the author of Miracles of Rare Devices; Dickens and Mesmerism; Thomas Carlyle, A Biography (nominated for the 1983 National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize); Sacred Tears; Gore Vidal: A Biography; and Dickens: A Biography, the last available in paperback from Johns Hopkins.

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"A good up-to-date one-volume life of Henry James was long overdue... Here, at last, is a thoughtful, balanced book to give us a consistent and persuasive account of the writer's life and his development as an author." -- New York Times Book Review

Résumé
The one empire he most coveted, the land that he wanted for his primary home, was the empire of art."-from Henry James: The Imagination of Genius