Henry James

James in 1913 Henry James ( – ) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.

He is best known for his novels dealing with the social and marital interplay between ''émigré ''Americans, the English, and continental Europeans, such as ''The Portrait of a Lady''. His later works, such as ''The Ambassadors'', ''The Wings of the Dove'' and ''The Golden Bowl'' were increasingly experimental. In describing the internal states of mind and social dynamics of his characters, James often wrote in a style in which ambiguous or contradictory motives and impressions were overlaid or juxtaposed in the discussion of a character's psyche. For their unique ambiguity, as well as for other aspects of their composition, his late works have been compared to Impressionist painting.

His novella ''The Turn of the Screw'' has garnered a reputation as the most analysed and ambiguous ghost story in the English language and remains his most widely adapted work in other media. He wrote other highly regarded ghost stories, such as "The Jolly Corner".

James published articles and books of criticism, travel, biography, autobiography, and plays. Born in the United States, James largely relocated to Europe as a young man, and eventually settled in England, becoming a British citizen in 1915, a year before his death. James was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912, and 1916. Jorge Luis Borges said "I have visited some literatures of East and West; I have compiled an encyclopedic compendium of fantastic literature; I have translated Kafka, Melville, and Bloy; I know of no stranger work than that of Henry James." Provided by Wikipedia
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James, Henry, 1843-1916 Anglické hodiny / Henry James ; přeložila Petra Martínková ; ilustrace Joseph Pennell 2017
James, Henry, 1843-1916 Co všechno věděla Maisie / Henry James ; [z anglického originálu...přeložila Hana Skoumalová] ; [doslov napsal Aloys Skoumal] 1971
James, Henry, 1843-1916 Daisy Millerová / Henry James ; přeložil Zdeněk Urbánek 2022
James, Henry, 1843-1916 Listiny Aspernovy / Henry James ; přeložili Josef Škvorecký a Lubomír Dorůžka 2019
James, Henry, 1843-1916 Mistrova lekce / Henry James ; [z anglického originálu ... přeložil Zdeněk Urbánek] ; [předmluvu napsal Zdeněk Vančura] 1961
James, Henry, 1843-1916 Mistrova lekce / Henry James ; přeložil Zdeněk Urbánek 2023
James, Henry, 1843-1916 Portrét dámy / Henry James ; přeložila Kateřina Hilská 2016
James, Henry, 1843-1916 Strašidelné příběhy : výbor z duchařských povídek / Henry James ; ilustrace Ladislava Gažiová, Laďa Gažiová ; [přeložila Stanislava Menšíková] 2012
Strašidla, duchové & spol. ; [vybral, průvodním textem opatřil a portréty autorů napsal Ondřej Müller] ; přeložili Jan Čermák ... [et al.] ; [ilustroval Jiří Běhounek] / Ondřej Mül... 2001
James, Henry, 1843-1916 V kleci / Henry James ; přeložil Jaroslav Hronek 2021
James, Henry, 1843-1916 Washingtonovo náměstí / Henry James ; [z anglického originálu...přeložil Aloys Skoumal] ; [doslov napsal Radoslav Nenadál] ; [ilustrovala Pavla Soukupová] 1987
James, Henry, 1843-1916 Washingtonovo náměstí / Henry James ; přeložil Aloys Skoumal 2019
James, Henry, 1843-1916 Washingtonovo náměstí / Henry James ; překlad Aloys Skoumal 2018
James, Henry, 1843-1916 Šelma v džungli / Henry James ; přeložil Zdeněk Urbánek 2023
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