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The Diary of a Man of Fifty
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Henry James's novella follows a middle-aged Englishman who returns to Florence and, in his diary, revisits a love affair he once abandoned out of suspicion, finding troubling parallels in a young man's romance. It suits readers of James's psychological fiction exploring memory and regret.
Henry James
Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of theologian Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
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