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1) Novelistas
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James, autor de títulos clásicos como Otra vuelta de tuerca o Las bostonianas, fue un autor necesario que vertebró el siglo xix y el xx, tanto en Europa como en América, con sus ficciones, pero también con sus lúcidos y penetrantes ensayos. En este volumen, publicado originalmente en 1914, se reúnen aquellos textos críticos y divulgativos, profundos y rabiosos, que James dedicó durante las dos décadas anteriores a diferentes autores de novela,...
2) Hawthorne
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Hawthorne is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1879. The book was an insightful study of James' great predecessor, Nathaniel Hawthorne. James gave extended consideration to each of Hawthorne's novels and a selection of his short stories. He also reviewed Hawthorne's life and some of his nonfiction. The book became somewhat controversial for a famous section where James enumerated the items of novelistic interest he thought were...
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Partial Portraits examines the work of a range of authors, such as Emerson, Eliot, Trollope, and Stevenson. It includes one of James's most famous essays, The Art of Fiction, in which he argues that writers should not be limited in their subject matter, and that the only obligation a writer has is to make the work interesting.
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I have gathered into this volume several short fictions of the type I have already found it convenient to refer to as "international"-though I freely recognise, before the array of my productions, of whatever length and whatever brevity, the general applicability of that term.
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Those whose palates are accustomed to the subtle flavours of the wines of the Rhine and Moselle can smack their lips and name the vintage at the first taste. Likewise any one fairly familiar with the work of Mr. James during his forty years of literary activity can, after the reading of a single page taken at random, judge with a remarkable accuracy the date of its composition. Yet the transition has not been abrupt and the styles of writing which...
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