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Henry James

Born

in New York City, New York, The United States

April 15, 1843

Died

February 28, 1916

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

Influences

Nathaniel Hawthorne, Honoré de Balzac, Ivan Turgenev, Gustave Flaubert ...more

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Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
He is best known for his novels dealing with the social and marital interplay between émigré Americans, the English, and continental Europeans, such as The Portrait of a Lady. His later works, such as The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl were increasingly experimental. In describing the internal states of mind and social dynamics of his characters, James often wrote in a style in ...more

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Average rating: 3.58 · 457,426 ratings · 35,073 reviews · 3,990 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Turn of the Screw 3.39 avg rating — 157,355 ratings — published 1898 — 4051 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Portrait of a Lady 3.79 avg rating — 80,936 ratings — published 1881 — 2097 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daisy Miller 3.37 avg rating — 34,600 ratings — published 1879 — 1298 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Washington Square 3.70 avg rating — 23,509 ratings — published 1880 — 1230 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Wings of the Dove by Henry James, Amy Bloom (Introduction), Pierre A. Walker (Notes) 3.79 avg rating — 17,085 ratings — published 1902 — 670 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ambassadors 3.64 avg rating — 12,502 ratings — published 1903 — 1696 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Golden Bowl by Henry James, Gore Vidal (Introduction), Patricia Crick (Notes) 3.77 avg rating — 11,453 ratings — published 1904 — 792 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Daisy Miller and Washington Square by Henry James, Jennie A. Kassanoff (Introduction) 3.86 avg rating — 8,340 ratings — published 1880 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Turn of the Screw and The Aspern Papers by Henry James, Anthony Curtis (Introduction) 3.76 avg rating — 8,010 ratings — published 1898 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bostonians 3.58 avg rating — 7,450 ratings — published 1886 — 684 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Henry James

The Portrait of a Lady (2 volumes) (2 books)
by

Henry James

3.94 avg rating — 914 ratings

Collected Travel Writings (2 books)
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Henry James,

Richard Howard (Editor)

3.68 avg rating — 60 ratings

The Complete Letters of Henry James (16 books)
by

Henry James,

Michael Anesko (Editor),

Greg W. Zacharias (Editor),

Katie Sommer (Editor)

3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings

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65 votes, 18.2%

Cannery Row by John Steinbeck, 181 pages, 1945

42 votes, 11.8%

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren, 439 pages, 1946

34 votes, 9.5%

The Story of My Life by Helen Keller, 240 pages, 1902

33 votes, 9.2%

Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, 233 pages, 1932

27 votes, 7.6%

Blindness by José Saramago, 326 pages, 1995

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22 votes, 6.2%

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Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell, 232 pages, 1938

21 votes, 5.9%

Native Son by Richard Wright, 504 pages, 1940

17 votes, 4.8%

Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, 688 pages, 1933

11 votes, 3.1%

The Ambassadors by Henry James, 528 pages, 1903

10 votes, 2.8%

At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien, 239 pages, 1939

10 votes, 2.8%

The Passion by Jeanette Winterson, 176 pages, 1987

9 votes, 2.5%

The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara, 345 pages, 1974

4 votes, 1.1%

Explosion in a Cathedral by Alejo Carpentier, 360 pages, 1962

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Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe, 644 pages, 1929

2 votes, 0.6%

357 total votes

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