His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allowed him to explore the phenomena of consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting.
His plots centered on personal relationships, the proper exercise of power in such relationships, and other moral questions. He is primarily known for a series of major novels in which he portrayed the encounter of America with Europe.
He spent much of his life in England and became a British subject shortly before his death. Great Essays is proudly republishing this collection of classic essays now complete with a specially-commissioned biography of the author.Henry James, OM (1843-1916), son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born author, one of the founders and leaders of a school of realism in fiction. Contents include: "Henry James", "The Old Order", "Within the Rim", and "The Letters of Henry James". In 1941, Woolf drowned herself in the River Ouse at Lewes, aged 59. She suffered numerous nervous breakdowns during her life primarily as a result of the deaths of family members, and it is now believed that she may have suffered from bipolar disorder.
Woolf was a central figure in the feminist criticism movement of the 1970s, her works having inspired countless women to take up the cause. She is widely hailed as being among the most influential modernist authors of the 20th century and a pioneer of stream of consciousness narration. Adeline Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an English writer. He produced a large corpus of articles and books of criticism, travel, biography, and autobiography, playing an important role in the transition from literary realism to literary modernism. Henry James (1843–1916) was an American-British author generally considered to be one of the greatest novelists in the English language. First published in 1940, this volume contains a collection of classic essays by Virginia Woolf on the subject of Henry James and his work.
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