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London Review of Books Christmas Books

‘I thirst for his blood’

Ruth Bernard Yeazell

  • Henry James: A Life in Letters edited by Philip Horne
  • A Private Life of Henry James: Two Women and His Art by Lyndall Gordon

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Ruth Bernard Yeazell teaches literature at Yale. Her books include Harems of the Mind: Passages of Western Art and Literature and, most recently, Art of the Everyday: Dutch Painting and the Realist Novel.

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