The Selected Letters of Henry James
James, Henry Jr. / Edel, Leon![The Selected Letters of Henry James](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/946/9464946/CHSBZCOP039464946.jpg)
Legend has tended to preserve Henry James as "The Master" that Joseph Conrad called him, a rather long-winded Olympian given to great utterances on the art of fiction and the writing of profound psychological studies. The real-life figure revealed in these letters is more terse, and even astringent, a professional writer, an eager observer of life, a man who delighted in meeting people and who made an art of friendship, but who did not hesitat...