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He teaches that it is the pursuit and not the end which should give us pleasure; for he often prefers to leave us to our own conjectures in regard to the fate of the people in whom he has interested us.

—On James

William Dean
Howells

Henry James

1843–1916, American novelist and critic, b. New York City. A master of the psychological novel, James was an innovator in technique and one of the most distinctive prose stylists in English.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press. (See also: Biographical Note from Harvard Classics.)

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WORKS: The Portrait of a Lady
From the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol. XI.; The Théâtre Francais
From Matthews’s Oxford Book of American Essays.; James, Henry, 30424 to 30477
Entries from the Columbia World of Quotations.
WRITINGS ABOUT JAMES: “Henry James”
Chapter by Joseph Warren Beach with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.; “Henry James”
Chapter by Carl Van Doren from the American Novel.

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