Henry James Autobiographies Loa 274 Brother The Middle Years Other Writings

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 1336 pages
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Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781598534726

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Henry James: Autobiographies (LOA #274) Brother / The Middle Years / Other Writings by Henry James Pdf

This extensive collection of autobiographical writings by the author of The Turn of the Screw and The Portrait of a Lady offers a revelatory self-portrait and an inside glimpse into his famous family In 1911, deeply affected by the death of his brother William the year before, Henry James began working on a book about his early life. As was customary for James in his later years, he dictated his recollections to his secretary Theodora Bosanquet, who recalled how “a straight dive into the past brought to the surface treasure after treasure.” A Small Boy and Others (1913) and the two autobiographical books that followed—Notes of a Son and Brother (1914) and the incomplete, posthumously published The Middle Years—stand with his later novels as one of the enduring triumphs of his final years. Not only did James create one of the singular self-portraits in American literature, he also fashioned a richly detailed account of his renowned family, especially his father, the social philosopher Henry James Sr., his brother William, and his dear cousin Minny Temple, inspiration for the heroines of two of his greatest novels, The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove. Rounding out the volume is a selection of eight other personal reminiscences and, as an appendix, his secretary’s insightful and affectionate memoir, “Henry James at Work.” LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781598534719

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Henry James: Autobiographies (LOA #274) by Henry James Pdf

This extensive collection of autobiographical writings by the author of The Turn of the Screw and The Portrait of a Lady offers a revelatory self-portrait and an inside glimpse into his famous family In 1911, deeply affected by the death of his brother William the year before, Henry James began working on a book about his early life. As was customary for James in his later years, he dictated his recollections to his secretary Theodora Bosanquet, who recalled how “a straight dive into the past brought to the surface treasure after treasure.” A Small Boy and Others (1913) and the two autobiographical books that followed—Notes of a Son and Brother (1914) and the incomplete, posthumously published The Middle Years—stand with his later novels as one of the enduring triumphs of his final years. Not only did James create one of the singular self-portraits in American literature, he also fashioned a richly detailed account of his renowned family, especially his father, the social philosopher Henry James Sr., his brother William, and his dear cousin Minny Temple, inspiration for the heroines of two of his greatest novels, The Portrait of a Lady and The Wings of the Dove. Rounding out the volume is a selection of eight other personal reminiscences and, as an appendix, his secretary’s insightful and affectionate memoir, “Henry James at Work.” LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1523823062

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Notes of a Son and Brother ( Is an Autobiography) by Henry James by Henry James Pdf

Notes of a Son and Brother is an autobiography by Henry James published in 1914. The book covers James' early manhood and tells of "the obscure hurt" that kept him out of the Civil War, his first efforts at writing fiction, and the early death of his beloved cousin, Minny Temple, from tuberculosis In this second installment of his autobiography James begins to use family letters, especially those of his brother William and his father Henry James, Sr. James didn't scruple to "improve" the letters with revisions of his own, which has given Jamesian scholars something more to comment on. The book covers the Civil War years, which saw James' younger brother Wilky seriously injured and brought back to the family home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. James himself was exempted from service due to a back injury, the "obscure hurt" he suffered while putting out a fire with the local volunteer fire department. Meanwhile, James pursued his writing and earned his first fourteen dollars, which he looked at long and proudly. He began to place critical pieces and short stories in magazines like the North American Review, The Nation and The Atlantic Monthly.

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798603198408

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Notes of a Son and Brother by Henry James Pdf

The second volume of Henry James's autobiography, Notes of a Son and Brother, was completed just a few months before his death. Here, James covers the time of the Civil War, discusses his early adulthood, his first efforts at writing fiction, and the death of his beloved cousin, Minny Temple. A moving and insightful book.

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798606063307

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The Middle Years by Henry James Pdf

Sharing a title with one of his own short stories, The Middle Years is the uncompleted third volume of memoirs from the American master of literary realism Henry James. He had previously published A Small Boy, about his childhood, and Notes of a Son and Brother, about his youth and young adulthood, but ultimately was unable to finish The Middle Years before his death in 1916.

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1674330243

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Notes of a Son and Brother by Henry James Pdf

Notes of a Son and Brother is an autobiography by Henry James published in 1914. The book covers James' early manhood and tells of "the obscure hurt" that kept him out of the Civil War, his first efforts at writing fiction, and the early death of his beloved cousin, Minny Temple, from tuberculosis.

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 154702433X

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A Small Boy and Others by Henry James Pdf

A Small Boy and Others is a book of autobiography by Henry James published in 1913. The book covers James's earliest years and discusses his intellectually active family, his intermittent schooling, and his first trips to Europe. This memoir tells of a precocious boy who loved the sights and sounds of his childhood but felt reticent about full participation in life. The note is sounded from the first chapters, as James recounts the limitations-and rewards-of the child he was: "For there was the very pattern and measure of all he was to demand: just to be somewhere-almost anywhere would do-and somehow receive an impression or an accession, feel a relation or a vibration. He was to go without many things, ever so many-as all people do in whom contemplation takes so much the place of action; but everywhere...he was to enjoy more than anything the so far from showy practice of wondering and dawdling and gaping: he was really, I think, much to profit by it." James clearly suffered from a sense of his inferiority in the "showy," active parts of life. His older brother William always seemed superior in ability; his classmates scorned his hopelessness at math and science; even at a party he felt too embarrassed to join in the dancing. But he still observed and fantasized about all his family and his surroundings had to offer. When a cousin of his was told "don't make a scene," he suddenly realized that scenes could be made by telling a story or inventing a play.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:632377220

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Henry James by Anonim Pdf

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1662724195

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Within the Rim and Other Essays & Notes of a Son and Brother by Henry James Pdf

Notes of a Son and Brother is an autobiography by Henry James published in 1914. The book covers James' early manhood and tells of "the obscure hurt" that kept him out of the Civil War, his first efforts at writing fiction, and the early death of his beloved cousin, Minny Temple, from tuberculosis. In this second installment of his autobiography James begins to use family letters, especially those of his brother William and his father Henry James, Sr. Scholarship has shown that James altered the letters with revisions of his own. The book covers the Civil War years, which saw James' younger brother Wilky seriously injured and brought back to the family home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. James himself was exempted from service due to a back injury, the "obscure hurt" he suffered while putting out a fire with the local volunteer fire department. Meanwhile, James pursued his writing and earned his first fourteen dollars, which he looked at long and proudly. He began to place critical pieces and short stories in magazines like the North American Review, The Nation and The Atlantic Monthly. James' older brother William vacillated between art and science but finally settled on the latter, though many years would pass before he became the philosopher and psychologist of enduring fame. James offers a vivid portrait of his sometimes whimsical father, who insisted that his children "be something" instead of going in for "mere doing." The final chapter of the book covers the ill health and death (at 25) of James' spirited and appealing cousin, Minny Temple. James quotes extensively from her touching letters and says that, for himself and William, her death was "the end of our youth."

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0813930847

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Notes of a Son and Brother, and the Middle Years by Henry James Pdf

This is an annotated collection of the writer's family history.

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Deutsch Press
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1447470044

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The Middle Years (1893) by Henry James Pdf

This early work by Henry James was originally published in 1893 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Henry James was born in New York City in 1843. One of thirteen children, James had an unorthodox early education, switching between schools, private tutors and private reading.. James published his first story, 'A Tragedy of Error', in the Continental Monthly in 1864, when he was twenty years old. In 1876, he emigrated to London, where he remained for the vast majority of the rest of his life, becoming a British citizen in 1915. From this point on, he was a hugely prolific author, eventually producing twenty novels and more than a hundred short stories and novellas, as well as literary criticism, plays and travelogues. Amongst James's most famous works are The Europeans (1878), Daisy Miller (1878), Washington Square (1880), The Bostonians (1886), and one of the most famous ghost stories of all time, The Turn of the Screw (1898). We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1006820655

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Notes of a Son and Brother (Esprios Classics) by Henry James Pdf

Notes of a Son and Brother is an autobiography by Henry James published in 1914. The book covers James' early manhood and tells of "the obscure hurt" that kept him out of the Civil War, his first efforts at writing fiction, and the early death of his beloved cousin, Minny Temple, from tuberculosis.

Author : Leon Edel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1035592857

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Henry James by Leon Edel Pdf

Author : Henry James
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1539153126

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A Small Boy and Others (Annotated) by Henry James Pdf

A Small Boy and Others is a book of autobiography by Henry James published in 1913. The book covers James' earliest years and discusses his intellectually active family, his intermittent schooling, and his first trips to Europe.

Author : Carol Holly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015031833075

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Intensely Family by Carol Holly Pdf

In 1911, at the age of 68, Henry James began A Small Boy and Others with the intent of writing a memoir of his brother William and other members of his family. Within months, however, James's interest in others was replaced by a desire to trace his personal development. Subsequently, he began a lengthy examination of both his own past and the psychological heritage of the James family in a two-volume autobiography, A Small Boy and Others and Notes of a Son and Brother. Through the process of writing his autobiography, James maintained that "at every step of the process [he was becoming] . . . more intensely 'family.'" Documenting the rich connotations of James's phrase "intensely family," Carol Holly examines the shame-based psychology bred by his parents and the impact of that psychology on James's literary career. Interpreting the act of autobiography as a biographical event, Holly also draws on a collection of James's largely unpublished correspondence with his sister-in-law and nephew from the period when he was writing A Small Boy and Notes . She provides a contextual interpretation of the autobiographies and offers a detailed look at the complex emotional life of James the autobiographer.