On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays by James, Henry
On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays by James, Henry

On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays

A new selection of Henry James's essays on the art of writing, from his famous essay "The...
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Author: Henry James
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On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays by James, Henry

On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays

$64.57
On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays by James, Henry

On Writers and Writing: Selected Essays

$64.57
Author: Henry James
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
A new selection of Henry James's essays on the art of writing, from his famous essay "The Art of Fiction" to pieces on George Eliot, Ivan Turgenev, Honor? de Balzac, and others. Witty, erudite, and passionate, James's essays are a delight for any lover of the written word.

Best known as a master novelist, Henry James was also an incisive critic whose essays on the novel had as profound an influence on its development as did his fiction. Here, Pulitzer-finalist Michael Gorra, author of Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece, gathers some of the most virtuosic essays from across fifty years of James's career. From his landmark essay "The Art of Fiction," an exhilarating treatise on the complexity of literary form, to "The Lesson of Balzac," a tender portrait of one of James's greatest touchstones, to career-defining assessments of writers such as George Eliot and Ivan Turgenev, James reveals himself as a passionate and sensitive reader, one whose unerring ability to locate the currents within Anglophone literature was matched only by his uncommon prescience regarding its future. Slyly humorous and unabashedly opinionated, On Writers and Writing is a compelling artistic biography of a writer at his cogent and stylish best.

Author: Henry James
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 04/15/2025
Pages: 408
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
ISBN: 9781681379234

About the Author
Henry James (1843-1916), the younger brother of the psychologist William James and one of the greatest of American writers, was born in New York but lived for most of his life in England. Among the best known of his many stories and novels are The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, and The Wings of the Dove.

Michael Gorra is a writer and scholar. His book Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography. He teaches at Smith College.
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