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This fifth volume in the Library of America edition of the complete novels of Henry James brings together one of his most unusual works with one of his most beloved masterpieces. James characterized The Sacred Fount, the only one of his novels to be told in the first person, as "a fine flight into the high fantastic." Its nameless narrator becomes obsessed with the idea that a person may tap into the "sacred fount" of another person, and pursues his insight with a perplexing and ambiguous persistence. A tragic tale of innocence and experience that has long been acclaimed as one of James's supreme achievements as a novelist, The Wings of the Dove depicts the entanglement of the fatally ill Milly Theale, a wealthy young American heiress, with the English adventuress Kate Croy and her lover, the worldly journalist Morton Densher, in an intricate and ultimately devastating scheme of love and betrayal.
In 1869, and then in 1872-74, he paid visits to Europe and began his first novel, Roderick Hudson. Late in 1875 he settled in Paris, where he met Turgenev, Flaubert, and Zola, and wrote The American (1877). In December 1876 he moved to London, where two years later he achieved international fame with Daisy Miller. Other famous works include Washington Square (1880), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Princess Casamassima (1886), The Aspern Papers (1888), The Turn of the Screw (1898), and three large novels of the new century, The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904). In 1905 he revisited the United States and wrote The American Scene (1907).
During his career he also wrote many works of criticism and travel. Although old and ailing, he threw himself into war work in 1914, and in 1915, a few months before his death, he became a British subject. In 1916 King George V conferred the Order of Merit on him. He died in London in February 1916.
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