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Henry James
(15 Apr 1843 - 28 Feb 1916)
American-British author whose popular novel, the short ghost story, The Turn of the Screw was the basis of the opera by Benjamin Britten.
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Science Quotes by Henry James (1)
[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being—yet with none of the noise and windy geniality of some folks here , whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you.
— Henry James
Letter to William James (29 Mar 1877). In Percy Lubbock (ed.), The Letters of Henry James (1920), 52.