Anyone asked where to begin reading Henry James is likely to suggest, as I did recently, The Portrait of a Lady. Though he preceded it with two splendid short novels—The Europeans and Washington Square—it was with the six-hundred-page Portrait that James fully arrived and, as Michael Gorra puts it in his fine new study of this “American masterpiece,” became truly Jamesi (...)
November 23, 2012
Books
From Every Angle
Portrait of a NovelHenry James and the Making of an American MasterpieceMichael GorraNorton, $29.95, 385 pp.
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