Analysis: Colm Toibin discusses the life of Henry James and his novel "The Master"

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LIANE HANSEN
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
08-15-2004
Analysis: Colm Toibin discusses the life of Henry James and his novel "The Master"

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Time: 1:00-2:00 PM

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Novelist Henry James was a master who managed to capture the manners and inner lives of 19th-century Americans, yet little is known about his interior life. James burned his letters and diaries before he died in 1916 to keep anyone from learning about him. In a new novel, "The Master," Irish writer Colm Toibin has imagined a complicated and sad life for Henry James. It takes place just as James ...

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