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Selected Tales (James, Henry)

9780140436945

Selected Tales (James, Henry)

  • ISBN 13:

    9780140436945

  • ISBN 10:

    0140436944

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 09/01/2001
  • Publisher: Penguin Classics
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Summary

Although James considered himself a writer of novels and drama, it was to the short story, or nouvelle, that he turned at times when his novel or dramatic writing came under pressure. The short story offered a freedom which the nineteenth-century novel could not provide. 'By doing short things I can do so many, touch so many subjects, break out in so many places, handle so many threads of life.'

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