One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
-- Henry James
   
Henry James   Name:
Henry James
Type:
Writer
Nationality:
American
Birth:
April 15, 1843
Death:
February 28, 1916
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