A patron saint of exquisite verbosity, James made a career examining the clash of American innocence with European cunning. Here are his best works. Credit... Supported by By Lauren Christensen Lauren ...

I n February 1905 at around 10 o’clock at night, Henry James arrived in Palm Beach. He’d had a long trip — “the railway run from Jacksonville to Palm Beach begins early and ends late,” he writes in ...

It has long been known that during his last illness, in the midst of the 1914—1918 war, and when he was in delirium, Henry James called his secretary, the late Theodora Bosanquet, and dictated certain ...

In spite of the satisfaction with which Henry James settled himself down once for all in English life, the venture led before many years, according to Mr. Brooks’s diagnosis of the case, into ...

The faintly redundant subtitle is easily explained: The fifth and last volume of Leon Edel's classic Henry James biography was called simply The Master, echoing the honorific conferred on the great ...