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Partial Portraits

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  1. Ch I, part 1 Emerson

    25:16

  2. Ch I, part 2 Emerson

    26:05

  3. Ch I, part 3 Emerson

    16:02

  4. Ch II, part 1 Eliot

    25:36

  5. Ch II, part 2 Eliot

    25:17

  6. Ch III Deronda

    48:48

  7. Ch IV, part 1 Trollope

    27:23

  8. Ch IV, part 2 Trollope

    23:43

  9. Ch IV, part 3 Trollope

    22:25

  10. Ch V, sec I Robert Louis Stevenson

    23:33

  11. Ch V, sec I cont'd Stevenson

    20:10

  12. Ch V, sec II cont'd Stevenson

    30:20

  13. Ch VI Miss Woolson

    31:24

  14. Ch VII, sec I and II Daudet

    26:56

  15. Ch VII, sec III, IV and V Daudet

    55:08

  16. Ch VIII, Sec I de Maupassant

    41:55

  17. Ch VIII, Sec II de Maupassant

    45:59

  18. Ch IX, part 1 Turgenieff

    30:05

  19. Ch IX, part 2 Turgenieff

    34:05

  20. Ch X, part 1 Du Maurier

    25:39

  21. Ch X, part 2 Du Maurier

    29:43

  22. Ch X, part 3 Du Maurier

    34:58

  23. Ch XI, part 1 Art of Fiction

    37:14

  24. Ch XI, part 2 Art of Fiction

    31:10

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The opening essay turns a biography of Emerson into a discussion of how a writer's life can be put on the page. Henry James weighs the editor's use of letters, the quiet routines of Concord and the connection between literary character and social surroundings. These questions set the direction of a collection first published in 1888, where judgments about books sit alongside portraits of the people who wrote them.

The contents move through George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alphonse Daudet and Ivan Turgénieff, then close with The Art of Fiction. In the essay on Daudet, James considers the influence of Provence, the author's expressive style and his ability to observe his own temperament. Readers interested in literary criticism can follow one writer examining another writer's choices, balancing personal response with close attention to style and the materials of biography.

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Henry James

Henry James was an American-British writer and a master of the psychological novel. Works such as The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, and The Ambassadors explore consciousness, society, and the clash between American and European life.

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