Fiction · 1894
The Death of the Lion
A young journalist, sent to interview a novelist he genuinely admires, watches with growing dismay as fashionable society "discovers" the great but long-overlooked Neil Paraday — lionizing him, exhausting him with invitations, and, in the end, caring nothing at all for the one thing that actually matters: his unpublished final manuscript.
Henry James published "The Death of the Lion" in The Yellow Book in 1894, one of several stories from this period — "The Lesson of the Master," "The Figure in the Carpet" among them — turning a satirical eye on literary fame, reputation, and the gap between an artist's public and private worth.
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1843–1916 · Victorian
Henry James (1843–1916) was born in New York City, the son of a theologian and brother of the philosopher William James, and educated in Europe and America. He settled in England in 1876 and became a British subject in 1915. Among his novels are Roderick Hudson, The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Bostonians, What Maisie Knew, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl; among his tales, Daisy Miller, The Aspern Papers and The Turn of the Screw (1898).
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