"A good up-to-date one-volume life of Henry James was long overdue;
Fred Kaplan... has done the job splendidly with Henry James: The
Imagination of Genius... Here, at last, is a thoughtful, balanced
book to give us a consistent and persuasive account of the writer's
life and his development as an author." -- Miranda Seymour, New
York Times Book Review
One of the most influential novelists, Henry James led a life
that was as rich as his writing. Born into an eccentric and
difficult family, he left the United States for Europe, where he
quickly became a fixture of the expatriate writing community. Fred
Kaplan recreates the world of Henry James: his friendships with
Edith Wharton and Joseph Conrad, his love of all things exquisite
-- including exquisite writing -- and his quest for understanding
human nature. As James himself advocated and would have wanted,
this is an artful, dramatic biography, placing the chronological
narrative of James's life in the historical context of his
times.
"The twenty-one-year-old Henry James, Jr., preferred to be a
writer rather than a soldier. His motives for writing were clear to
himself, and they were not unusual: he desired fame and fortune.
Whatever additional enriching complications that were to make him
notorious for the complexity of his style and thought, the initial
motivation remained constant. Deeply stubborn and persistently
willful, he wanted praise and money, the rewards of recognition of
what he believed to be his genius, on terms that he himself wanted
to establish. The one battle he thought most worth fighting was
that of the imagination for artistic expression. The one empire he
most coveted, the land that he wanted for his primaryhome, was the
empire of art." -- from Henry James: The Imagination of Genius
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