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Henry James - The Crooked Corridor (Hardcover)
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Henry James - The Crooked Corridor (Hardcover)
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Certain readers and critics have faulted Henry James for two
contradictory reasons. He has been thought a writer limited in
scope and depth in his treatment of a particular class of people.
On the other hand, he has been thought to be too complex, too
extreme in putting into difficult language his view of
relationships between his chosen characters.Elizabeth Stevenson
depicts Henry James as a stout and strong presence in the
literature of the English language. From the relatively youthful,
straightforward, and simple writing of his early years, to the
involved complexities of his later stories, his significance cannot
be denied. The barrier seems to have been a misunderstanding on the
part of some. It is true nearly all of his characters are well
clothed, well fed, and roofed comfortably. They are usually fairly
well educated and talk literately and wittily. James rarely treats
raw or wild nature, but he is sensitive to landscape as a
background. He also does children well, and they are often outside
the norms of society. Who is not touched by the uncanny in the
tainted children of The Turn of the Screw, whether the taint is
actually in the children or in the mind of the governess?In James,
one may not travel physically a great deal, except to the resorts
of those well-off financially and socially. One does travel
extensively through the minds and hearts of his characters. The
journey rewards the traveler. The delicacy of James' "melodramatic"
insights causes tremor or appreciation from a reader. He describes
the way life is, both horrible and wonderful. No one else has
expressed this understanding in quite his way. Henry James: The
Crooked Corridor will be of interest to students of American
literature and general readers interested in biographies.
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