A Small Boy and OthersCultural Writing. Memoir. In A SMALL BOY AND OTHERS, Henry James applies his superb skills as a storyteller to his won early life. Written after the death of his brother William the completion of his last novel, James felt at last able to chart this revealing portrait of the artist as a young man. With a wit and curiosity evident on every page, this book transformed the art of autobiography. "Henry James looked back at his past with the same search for the truths of the emotions which Proust was to show in his novel A la recherchT du temps perdu" - Leon Edel. |
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