Henry James arrived in Palm Beach. He’d had a long trip — “the railway run from Jacksonville to Palm Beach begins early and ends late,” he writes in The American Scene, his account of the ...

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Charter Books is set to host renowned author and critic Peter Brooks on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. Brooks will discuss his ...

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When Henry James, after spending most of his adult life ... and often complexly difficult travel memoir, The American Scene, in 1907: is that it doesn’t believe in itself: it fails to succeed ...