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A Life in Letters

Henry James

Form
Form Letters
Year
Year 1999
Pages
Pages 640

James built a bonfire in the garden at Lamb House and fed it four decades of letters received, so that no one could ever assemble the life behind the work. What survived is his own half of teh conversation, kept in other people's drawers, and it turns out to be the more telling half.

Don't melt too much into the universe, but be as solid and dense and fixed as you can.
A Life in Letters, Henry James

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