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The Real Henry James

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The  great 19th Century writer is revealed through his letters and memoirs.

The great 19th Century writer is revealed through his letters and memoirs.  Read by Henry Goodman.

Henry James was not only a great novelist - he also wrote a great deal of entertaining non-fiction, producing reviews and essays on a wide variety of subjects. To mark the centenary of his death, these five anthologies reveal James through his letters, memoirs, essays and private notebooks.
 
The anthology has been selected by Professor Philip Horne of University College London, who is founding General Editor of a major scholarly edition of James's fiction and has re-transcribed the notebooks for an authoritative new edition.
 
Reader: Henry Goodman
With introductions by Olivia Williams
 
Producer: Elizabeth Burke
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