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Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. Henry James returned to America in 1904 with three objectives: to see his brother William, to deliver a ...

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Henry James returned to America in 1904 with three objectives: to see his brother William, to deliver a series of lectures on Balzac, and to gather material for a pair of books about modern America.

Receive free articles, highlights from the archive, news, details of prizes, and much more. Henry James returned to America in 1904 with three objectives: to see his brother William, to deliver a ...

Henry James returned to America in 1904 with three objectives: to see his brother William, to deliver a series of lectures on Balzac, and to gather material for a pair of books about modern America.

Henry James returned to America in 1904 with three objectives: to see his brother William, to deliver a series of lectures on Balzac, and to gather material for a pair of books about modern America.