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Naomi K
Jun 24, 2016
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Henry James was even more absurdly prolific as a story writer than he was as a writer of novels. And almost all of his stories are extremely long: ten thousand words would be a short one, for him. I've read many of his most famous shorts: "The Beast In The Jungle", "The Aspern Papers", "Washington Square" (which some would call a novel). But I recently …

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