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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 20071230
Author:a novelist; critic; David Lodge; is most recently the author of "The Year of Henry James." His novel "Deaf Sentence" will be published in 2008.; David Lodge

Book Review

Henry James: The Mature Master

By Sheldon M. Novick

Random House, 616 pp., illustrated, $35

I cannot claim to be a disinterested reviewer of this book. The chronological span of its first half coincides with the main narrative of my novel "Author, Author" (2004), about Henry James's life between 1880 and 1898, so I approached it with more than usual curiosity. In preparing to write my novel, I relied chiefly on Leon Edel's monumental five-volume "Life of Henry James," supplemented by his four-volume edition of James's letters and numerous more specialized studies by other hands. As ...

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