these are the most essential books to read to understand the great legacy of Henry James. It is the book I have read more times than any other, even though — or because? — nothing much happens ...

A few weeks ago, I finished reading the Library of America’s six-volume, sixty-eight-hundred-page edition of the novels of Henry ... These books might surprise some readers who know James ...

By Leo Robson Henry James was the originator in ­English of novel-chauvinism, the idea that the extended prose fiction is, as he put it, “the book par excellence”. Between 1871 and 1904, during which ...