EMBARRASSMENTS

Henry James was born in New York City into a wealthy, intellectually inclined family. His father, Henry James Sr., was interested in various religious and literary pursuits. In his youth, James traveled with his family back and forth between Europe and America. He studied with tutors in Geneva, London, Paris, and Bonn. At the age of 19, he briefly and unsuccessfully attended Harvard Law School, but he much preferred reading and writing fiction to studying law. EMBARRASSMENTS contains four of his stories: The Figure in the Carpet Glasses The Next Time The Way it Came