#henryjames — Public Fediverse posts
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“He has never made his points better than in that half-humorous, half-tragical recital”
—Henry James, on ACROSS THE PLAINS – Stevenson’s memoir of his American journeyRead more in “Expanding Horizons: to California with Robert Louis Stevenson”
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#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #travelwriting #RobertLouisStevenson #emigration #HenryJames #railway #railwayhistory
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How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/07/24/henry-james-the-beast-in-the-jungle/
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‘The Portrait Of A Lady’: PBS Masterpiece, BBC & Fox Adapting Henry James Novel With Ensemble Cast Featuring Nell Tiger Free, Gemma Arterton, Bill Nighy, Jim Sturgess & Miranda Richardson
#News #BBC #BetaFilm #BillNighy #Fox #FoxEntertainmentGlobal #GemmaArterton #HenryJames #HighRoadEntertainment #JimSturgess #NellTigerFree #Number9Films #PBS #RebeccaLenkiewicz #ThePortraitOfALadyhttps://deadline.com/2026/07/pbs-bbc-adapting-portrait-of-a-lady-henry-james-bill-nighy-1236998240/
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Cloudflare decided my search for Todorov's essay on James's "Figure in the Carpet" fell under the category of "suspicious searches."
Very Jamesian.
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How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/09/henry-james-the-beast-in-the-jungle/
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Stare a Roma e non far mai una passeggiata a piedi, sarebbe, mi sembra, poco divertente.
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"She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS."
~ Henry James, born today, 1843.
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How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/03/26/henry-james-the-beast-in-the-jungle/
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How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/02/21/henry-james-the-beast-in-the-jungle/
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The Turn of the Screwdriver
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How to Stop Waiting and Start Living: A Jolt from Henry James
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/01/21/henry-james-the-beast-in-the-jungle/
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started a #wikipedia article on @cornelluniversi professor of English, Jean Frantz Blackall (1928-2025): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Frantz_Blackall @wikiwomeninred @mountholyoke #Diedin2025 #HenryJames #EdithWharton
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The Golden Corral Bowl
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Oh, I will have to read those James and Conrad pastiches by Max Beerbohm. Thank you for your review (subtle and insightful, as ever). I'll order the book from Topping & Company.
The Arnold Bennett piece will be a special bonus. I spent a large part of my younger life in the Stoke area; memories.
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It was not till many days had passed that the Princess began to accept the idea of having done, a little, something she was not always doing, or indeed that of having listened to any inward voice that spoke in a new tone. Yet these instinctive postponements of reflection were the fruit, positively, of recognitions and perceptions already active; of the sense, above all, that she had made, at a particular hour, made by the mere touch of her hand, a difference in the situation so long present to her as practically unattackable.
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The world as it stands is no illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of a night; we wake up to it again for ever and ever; we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
Henry James (1843-1916) American writer
Essay (1874-04), “Iwan Turgéniew,” sec. 3, North American Review, Vol. 98, Art. 4Sourcing, notes: wist.info/james-henry/77745/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #henryjames #dream #illusion #facereality #hereandnow #reallife #reality #truth #world
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The young Oscar Wilde’s Russian revolutionary drama reveals a playwright divided https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/jul/07/oscar-wilde-russian-revolutionary-drama-vera-or-the-nihilists #Classissues #OscarWilde #HenryJames #Socialism #Theatre #Culture #Russia #Stage
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Ah, yes, Henry James is back from the grave to remind us that modern literary criticism is about as useful as a chocolate teapot 🍫☕. Meanwhile, Nick Ripatrazone heroically recycles 140-year-old grumpiness like it's breaking news 📰💤. The #irony of criticizing critics by quoting a long-gone critic is clearly lost in this riveting tale of #snooze 😴📚.
https://www.metropolitanreview.org/p/the-art-of-the-critic #literarycriticism #HenryJames #NickRipatrazone #literaturehumor #HackerNews #ngated -
🚪📚 So it seems the *Guardian* has discovered the hitherto unknown fact that Henry James had a family—who knew? Maybe next they'll uncover that books have pages. 🙄 #GroundbreakingJournalism
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/20/colm-toibin-how-henry-james-family-tried-to-keep-him-in-the-closet #GroundbreakingJournalism #HenryJames #FamilyDiscovery #LiteraryHumor #MediaCritique #BookNews #HackerNews #ngated -
Henry James's family tried to keep him in the closet (2016)
#HackerNews #HenryJames #Closet #Family #Secrets #Literature #History
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"Andersen was perhaps too young to know how memory and regret can mingle, how much sorrow can be held within, and how nothing seems to have any shape or meaning until it is well past and lost" —Colm Tóibín, The Master
#books #reading #ColmTóibín #literature #IrishLiterature #HenryJames #memory
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"When everyone else had fire in their blood, he was calm. So calm that he could neither read nor think, merely bask in the freedom that the afternoon offered, savour, as deeply as he could, this quiet and strange treachery, his own surreptitious withdrawal from the world."
—Colm Tóibín, The Master
#books #reading #ColmTóibín #literature #IrishLiterature #HenryJames
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This was on the unread shelf too long, but the wait was worth it. It's uncommonly good.
#books #reading #ColmTóibín #novel #literature #IrishLiterature #HenryJames
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.@faris & @rosieyakob usually curate “Strands of Genius” but this one time they asked ME to do it and I went off on tangents about #soccer and #henryjames and #stlouis and a bunch of other things. Enticing, right? Check it out here: https://shorturl.at/BNH8y
