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The Jameses

by R.W.B. Lewis · 1991

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Traces the origins, development, and flowering of the intellectual family, from its eighteenth-century Irish origins to the death of the novelist Henry James in 1916.

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
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USAUSAMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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epic · 695 pages

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