Henry James was a great novelist but a failed playwright. He was roundly booed on the opening night of his 1895 play Guy Domville, and his other theatrical ventures were generally unsuccessful. Max ...

Michael Gorra's new critical biography, Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece, tells the story of how James' most popular and enduring novel, The Portrait of a ...

I n February 1905 at around 10 o’clock at night, Henry James arrived in Palm Beach. He’d had a long trip — “the railway run from Jacksonville to Palm Beach begins early and ends late,” he writes in ...

Move over, Jane Austen. Here comes Henry James. First there were all those film and television adaptations of Austen’s novels: “Pride and Prejudice,” “Sense and Sensibility,” “Persuasion” and “Emma” ...

THE CONQUEST OF LONDON (465 pp.) and THE MIDDLE YEARS (408 pp.), Vols. II & III of HENRY JAMES—Leon Edel-—Lippincoft ($ 17). Boswell started it all. Ever since the canny Scot earned himself a niche in ...