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In his memoir A Small Boy and Others (1913) Henry James recalls himself as a child in the New York of the early 1850s—“I at any rate watch the small boy dawdle and gape again, I smell the cold dusty paint and iron as the rails of the Eighteen...

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Henry James: Autobiographies

A Small Boy and Others | Notes of a Son and Brother | The Middle Years | other autobiographical writings | Appendix: “Henry James at Work,” by Theodora Bosanquet

LOA N°274

Henry James: Novels 1871–1880

Watch and Ward | Roderick Hudson | The American | The Europeans | Confidence

LOA N°13

Henry James: Novels 1881–1886

Washington Square | The Portrait of a Lady | The Bostonians

LOA N°29

Henry James: Novels 1886–1890

The Princess Casamassima | The Reverberator | The Tragic Muse

LOA N°43

Henry James: Literary Criticism: Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers

LOA N°22

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News & Views

Story of the Week Henry James, “The After-Season in Rome”

News Henry James, John Singer Sargent, and the “masterpiece of painting” that survived a meat cleaver attack

News Lightness v. pungency: Michael Gorra on Henry James’s two versions of The Portrait of a Lady, 25 years apart

News Rediscovered: The “audacious,” “charming,” “fully alive” late memoirs of Henry James

Story of the Week “Henry James at Work,” Theodora Bosanquet

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