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HENRY JAMES

He was unique, he was really hardworking, a great traveller, but what it´s more important, he brought to Europe the psichology of the Americans of his century and brought to America the knowledge of the Europeans as he had experienced during the long periods of time he had spent in the most important places of Britain, Italy, France, Greece,.... he was like a bridge between the two worlds.

"http://www.online-literature.com/henry_james/
Henry James (1843-1916), American-born writer, gifted with talents in literature, psychology, and philosophy. James wrote 20 novels, 112 stories, 12 plays and a number of works of literary criticism. Henry James was born on April 15, 1843 in New York City into a wealthy family. His father, Henry James Sr. was one of the best-known intellectuals in mid-nineteenth-century America. In his youth James traveled back and forth between Europe and America. He studied with tutors in Geneva, London, Paris, Bologna and Bonn. At the age of 19 he briefly attended Harvard Law School, but preferred reading literature to studying law..."

I love his novels, I´ve enjoyed everyone of them from the The Wings of the Dove, to The Aspern Papers, I recomend him if you want to experience the pleasure of reading the one of the best novelist in the world.