Posted by Tel on March 16, 2009
Henry James (1843-1916)
American-born English Author, Novelist, Short Story Writer, Playwright, Critic
Henry James was a American-born English classic author of novels, short-stories, plays and literary criticisms. Some of his greatest novels include: The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl. Famous stories he wrote: Portrait of a Lady and The Bostonians. Among the authors he considered his great influence include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Gustave Flaubert, Honoré de Balzac, Guy de Maupassant and Ivan Turgenev.
Read more… [Henry James, Life and Works]
Major Works by Henry James:
Books by Henry James:
- Watch and Ward, 1871
- Roderick Hudson, 1875
- The American, 1877
- The Europeans, 1878
- Daisy Miller, 1879
- Washington Square, 1880
- The Portrait of a Lady, 1881
- The Bostonians, 1886
- The Princess Casamassima, 1886
- The Tragic Muse, 1890
- The Sacred Fount, 1901
- The Wings of the Dove, 1902
- The Ambassadors, 1903
- The Golden Bowl, 1904
The Spoils of Poynton, 1897 – Short novel
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Posted by Tel on December 17, 2008
Authors born of December 16:
Jane Austen (1775) – English novelist famous for:
- Pride and Prejudice
- Emma
- Sense and Sensibility
- Mansfield Park
Sir Noel Coward (1899) – English playwright, actor and composer
V.S. Ptrichett (1900) – British autobiographer, essayist, author and critic
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Posted by Tel on December 19, 2007
Today, December 19 (1910), is the birthday of Jean Genet, French author and playwright. His novels and autobiographies were popular in the 1960s.
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