When James began the first of the notebooks with his sketch of Confidence, he had completed ... A story upon some such situation as this. Henry Irving, the actor, broke with the Batemans and ...

To read a paragraph by Henry James — a single one can sprawl across ... pulling us into his confidence as we witness the inevitable implosion of aesthetic hubris. (The novel also introduces ...

A few weeks ago, I finished reading the Library of America’s six-volume, sixty-eight-hundred-page edition of the novels of Henry James ... heard of before, and “Confidence,” which is ...