More from Henry James
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Hawthorne (1879), Ch. I: The Early Years.- “Greville Fane”, from The Real Thing: and Other Tales (1893)
- The Tragic Muse (1890), ch. IX
Henry James on life and death
We were alone with the quiet day, and his little heart, dispossessed, had stopped.
The Turn of the Screw (1898), Chapter XXIV
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