Henry James: The Master: 1901-1916

"One of the finest literary biographies in the language--perhaps any language." Clifton Fadiman With THE MASTER, Leon Edel brings to triumphant conclusion his award winning five volume life of Henry James. This volume can be read independently as an authoritative summing up of Henry James the man and the artist. He is seen in his final Johnsonian character, at large in London, the devastating with and critic, mingling with the older generation--Twain, Conrad, Crane--crossing swords with Bernard Shaw, looming over the nascent Bloomsbury group, especially Virginia Woolf, and even confronting the young Winston Churchill. Mr. Edel paints a definitive picture of James's relationship with novelist Edith Wharton and his devoted frienship with his acolytes, Hendrik Andersen, Jocelyn Persse, and Hugh Walpole. View Less