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Article: Works of Henry James: Henry James 1843 - 1916
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James, Henry
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Henry James 1843 - 1916
Life:
Henry James is probably the outstanding American novelist and stylist.
If he is not alone in that rank, he is accompanied by only three or four
others, such as Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, and perhaps Faulkner. Even among
those, who represent the best in American literature so far as novelists are
concerned, James does seem to stand out if only on the basis of his
prodigious lifetime of writing. James's writing career extended from the late
1860s to the first two decades of the present century, and he was without
question the first American novelist to truly bring his work into the
mainstream of world literature. This is not to ...