I n February 1905 at around 10 o’clock at night, Henry James arrived in Palm Beach. He’d had a long trip — “the railway run from Jacksonville to Palm Beach begins early and ends late,” he writes in ...

The faintly redundant subtitle is easily explained: The fifth and last volume of Leon Edel's classic Henry James biography was called simply The Master, echoing the honorific conferred on the great ...

A patron saint of exquisite verbosity, James made a career examining the clash of American innocence with European cunning. Here are his best works. Credit... Supported by By Lauren Christensen Lauren ...