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Subtitle: Essays on Writers and Their Lives
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: April 1991
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
ISBN-13: 9780393307160
First sentence: IN NOVEMBER 1883, when Matthew Arnold was lecturing in America, Henry James wrote from England to his boyhood friend Thomas Sergeant Perry: "I am very sorry you didn't like poor old Mat.