Henry James (1843 - 1916) was one of the leaders in the school of realism in fiction. He is known for his series of novels in which he portrayed the encounter of America with Europe. James is considered to be the master of the novel and novella. James wrote about personal relationships and the power within these relationships. James explored consciousness and perception from the point of view of a character within a tale. Pandora begins, "The process of inquiry had already begun for him, in spite of his having as yet spoken to none of his fellow-passengers; the case being that Vogelstein inquired not only with his tongue, but with his eyes--that is with his spectacles--with his ears, with his nose, with his palate, with all his senses and organs. He was a highly upright young man, whose only fault was that his sense of comedy, or of the humour of things, had never been specifically disengaged from his several other senses. He vaguely felt that something should be done about this, and in a general manner proposed to do it, for he was on his way to explore a society abounding in comic aspects."
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Henry James
Henry James, romancista americano nascido em Nova Iorque, a 15 de Abril de 1843, naturalizou-se cidadão inglês em 1915. Criador de uma vasta obra (escreveu 20 romances, 112 contos, 12 peças de teatro e alguns artigos de crítica literária), Henry James é uma das grandes figuras literárias de língua inglesa. Beneficiou de uma educação esmerada, pois o seu pai era um dos mais conhecidos intelectuais americanos. Durante a juventude, Henry James realizou viagens frequentes à Europa, vindo mais tarde a viver em Paris, onde foi correspondente do New York Tribune, e em Inglaterra, país onde viria a morrer em 1916. Autor de obras-primas como Daisy Miller (1879), Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Bostonians (1886) e The Embassadors (1903), Henry James foi postumamente laureado com graus pelas Universidades de Oxford e Harvard, eleito para o National Institute of Arts and Letters e, em 1950, para a American Academy of Arts and Letters, tendo recebido também a Ordem de Mérito pelo Rei George V.
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