Status Updates From The Portable Henry James (P...

From his first published tale, "A tragedy of error" in the Continental Monthly for February 1864, to his final collection of fiction, The Finer Grain in 1910, Henry James wrote, in addition to his twenty book-length novels, about 106 shorter works in fiction.

When controversy, enthusiasm, personal legend, and historic occasion combine in the rediscovery of a writer and make of it a significant episode in the history of taste, it is clear that he constitutes what James himself would have called a "special type" - that he was marked by circumstances as well as genius to lay a significant role in the drama of culture. - Introduction by Morton Dauwen Zabel

Finished "Daisy Miller."

..."Daisy Miller" only goes from page 3 to 61. I'm not going to read all 672 pages.

Reading "A Turn of the Screw" and it's slow going.

Four Meetings (short story) - 5 stars. WOW. Still thinking about it today. Wanted to shake Miss Caroline Spencer and do something really terrible to the narrator. Don't ever remember being this affected by a short story before...
Greville Fane (short story) - 2 stars. All exposition and very little story. Yawn yawn.

Four Meetings (short story) - 5 stars. WOW. Still thinking about it today. Wanted to shake Miss Caroline Spencer and do something really terrible to the narrator. Don't ever remember being this affected by a short story before...
Greville Fane (short story) - 2 stars. All exposition and very little story. Yawn yawn.