
The brilliance of Henry James
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The Importance of the American Innocent Abroad
James was born in a New York that would be unrecognizable to us today. As James was coming to Europe, America was still being settled. By the time he died, America was on the cusp of the American century and that power had really shifted westward. That was the world that James was chronicling.
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