Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
A common life A common life David Laskin In this splendid group portrait, David Laskin tells the stories of four friendships that helped to define the course of American literature: Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, Henry James and E… OL109661W
The complete notebooks of Henry James The complete notebooks of Henry James Henry James "This book includes the nine scribbler-notebooks that were published by Oxford in 1947 ; these have been considerably updated and annotated to correct the identification of stories developed by James… OL14860893W
Epistemology of the closet Epistemology of the closet Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Working from classic texts of European and American writers―including Melville, James, Nietzsche, Proust, and Wilde―Sedgwick analyzes a turn-of-the-century historical moment in which sexual orientati… OL2007273W
The American The American Henry James,Peter Collister A reprint of Henry James' "The America" that includes a textual history of the novel, background and source materials, and critical articles by James and others. OL276314W
The portrait of a lady The portrait of a lady James Lamar Roberts With rare honesty and acuity, James examines the mythologies of American life by putting Yanks in European society and letting them sink or swim. This tale of an innocent woman abroad adds to the wea… OL8508704W