Where's the best place to start with Henry James? How much of his work is worth reading?
>>8236822
Try reading the one that interests you the most and see if you like it.
>>8236822
Portrait of a Lady.
Stay away from his early stuff.
His later novels (Golden Bowl, Ambassadors, Wings of the Dove) are only worth reading if you can stand them, you'd have to be a college-level reader, I'd say. If you can't stand them, it'd probably be good to come back to them eventually when you're a more "advanced reader", so to speak.
Daisy Miller is a great short read you can read in a day and worth reading any time you like.
His short stories I guess can be read any time you like, A Turn of the Screw clearly being his most famous and probably best from what I've read so far of him.
Have fun (or don't, it's up to you)!
>>8236867
>you'd have to be a college-level reader, I'd say
I'm 25 and have been reading literature seriously for 10 years now, I just haven't gotten to Henry James.
Why should I avoid his early stuff?
>>8236893
He wasn't impuning your intelligence, his work before portrait of a lady isn't considered remarkable and his later works contain several pages long sentences.
>>8236822
James trades in first class, miles deep psychological realism, if you're into that stuff you can't go wrong with anything from The Portrait of a Lady onward.
