Henry James: The Young Master - Hardcover

Novick, Sheldon M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394586557 ISBN 13: 9780394586557

Publisher: Random House, 1996

Synopsis

Sheldon M. Novick portrays Henry James as a man of great emotional depth--powerful, confident, generous, and above all, courageous. This landmark life follows the author's exceptional biography of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, of which Edmund Morris said in The New York Times, "masterly . . . perfected to the point of art." of photos.

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Review:

In this shrewd, scrupulous biography covering the life of Henry James from his birth until the threshold of his greatest work, Sheldon Novick steers away from the notion that James was a man of sublimated desires, the very figure of the repressed artist who observed life rather than living it. Novick, in fact, argues that the object of James' earliest expression of love was none other than the jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes. Whether one chooses to believe that thesis or not, this is a refreshingly frank discussion of James' early life that sheds new light on his astonishing capacity for literary creation.

About the Author:

Sheldon M. Novick was born and grew up in New York City.  He has been a writer and lawyer through most of his adult life.  His first biography was Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes, published in 1989, and he is editing Holmess collected works.  He lives in Vermont, teaches constitutional law and history at Vermont Law School and is the proprietor of the South Strafford Cafe.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0394586557
• ISBN 13: 9780394586557
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 550