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He teaches that it is the pursuit and not the end which should give us pleasure; for he often prefers to leave us to our own conjectures in regard to the fate of the people in whom he has interested us.

—On James

William Dean
Howells

Henry James

WORKS: The Portrait of a Lady
From the Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction, Vol. XI.; The Théâtre Francais
From Matthews’s Oxford Book of American Essays.
WRITINGS ABOUT JAMES: “Henry James”
Chapter by Joseph Warren Beach with bibliography from the Cambridge History of English Literature.; “Henry James”
Chapter by Carl Van Doren from the American Novel.

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