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Henry James (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
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Published when she was twenty-four, Henry James is Rebecca West’s critical biography of the author of such classic works as The Portrait of a Lady and “The Turn of the Screw.” Examining James’s idea of women and deconstructing the “Jamesian sentence,” this introduction to James and his work remains relevant.
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