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The possibilities of some phase, in especial, of a thoroughly personal relation, a relation the better the more intimate and demanding, for objective intensity, some degree of com position and reduction. The short tale as we call it for convenience, though the latter member of the term rather begs the question, may be, like the long one, mainly Of two sorts: the chain of items, figures in a kind of sum-one of the simple rules - of move ment, added up as on a school-boy's slate and with the correct total and its little flourish constituting the finish and accounting for the effect, or else it may be an effort preferably pictorial, a portrait of conditions, an attempt.
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Henry James was born the son of a religious philosopher in New York City in 1843. His famous works include The Portrait of a Lady, Washington Square, Daisy Miller, and The Turn of the Screw. He died in London in 1916, and is buried in the family plot in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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