Skip to main content.

Partial Portraits

In this book, writer Henry James gives wonderful and probing insights into the lives and works of many famous and interesting writers, some known personally by him. We see into the creative workings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Robert Louis Stevenson, Constance Fenimore Woolson, Alphonse Daudet, Guy De Maupassant, Ivan Turgenieff and George du Maurier. (Summary by Rita Boutros) (0 hr 18 min)

Chapters

Ch I, part 1 Emerson

Ch I, part 2 Emerson

Ch I, part 3 Emerson

Ch II, part 1 Eliot

Ch II, part 2 Eliot

Ch III Deronda

Ch IV, part 1 Trollope

Ch IV, part 2 Trollope

Ch IV, part 3 Trollope

Ch V, sec I Robert Louis Stevenson

Ch V, sec I cont'd Stevenson

Ch V, sec II cont'd Stevenson

Ch VI Miss Woolson

Ch VII, sec I and II Daudet

Ch VII, sec III, IV and V Daudet

Ch VIII, Sec I de Maupassant

Ch VIII, Sec II de Maupassant

Ch IX, part 1 Turgenieff

Ch IX, part 2 Turgenieff

Ch X, part 1 Du Maurier

Ch X, part 2 Du Maurier

Ch X, part 3 Du Maurier

Ch XI, part 1 Art of Fiction

Ch XI, part 2 Art of Fiction