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James, Henry: Henry James: The Mature Master.(Brief article)(Book review)

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James, Henry

Henry James: The Mature Master. Sheldon M. Novick. New York: Random House, 2007. 616 pp. $35.00.

"Does Novick succeed in giving us a new, more 'ordinary,' less cerebral Henry James? The answer, for better or worse, is yes. Indeed, the life that he describes ('The Mature Master' begins with the successful 1881 publication of 'The Portrait of a Lady' and ends with James's death in 1916) is one that, for any urban writer, will seem eerily, even tiresomely familiar."

David Leavitt. NYTBR, Dec. 23, 2007: 1, 8-9.

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