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A strange and delightful memento of one of the most lasting literary voices of all time, The Daily Henry James is a little book from a great mind. First published with James�s approval in 1911 as the ultimate token of fandom�a limited edition quote-of-the-day collection titled The Henry James Year Book�this new edition is a gift across time, arriving as we mark the centenary of his death. Drawing on the Master�s novels, essays, reviews, plays, criticism, and travelogues, The Daily Henry James offers a series of impressions (for if not of impressions, of what was James fond?) to carry us through the year. From the deepest longings of Isabel Archer to James�s insights in The Art of Fiction, longer seasonal quotes introduce each month, while concise bits of wisdom and whimsy mark each day. To take but one example: Isabel, in a quote from The Portrait of a Lady for September 30, muses, �She gave an envious thought to the happier lot of men, who are always free to plunge into the healing waters of action.� Featuring a new foreword by James biographer Michael Gorra as well as the original introductions by James and his good friend William Dean Howells, this long-forgotten perennial calendar will be an essential bibelot for James�s most ardent devotees and newest converts alike, a treasure to be cherished daily, across all seasons, for years, for ages to come.