Henry James

Noun

Meaning

writer who was born in the United States but lived in England (1843-1916)

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

James

Examples

Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James. Vladimir Nabokov

Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met. William Faulkner

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. Oscar Wilde

Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly. Robert Louis Stevenson

I can manage a prose format as long as I keep closer to Laurence Sterne than to Henry James. David Antin

I liked teaching Henry James. When you look down at a Henry James novel from a helicopter height, you find an intricate spider web that all clings together. Helen Vendler

Close letter words and terms

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