Roderick Hudson: An American Sculptor in Rome

A rich patron brings a brilliant young American sculptor to Rome to make him great, and watches him instead discover women, idleness and his own limits. James's first real novel, written at thirty-two, invents the subject he would work for forty years: the American of talent set loose in Europe w...

Henry James (1843–1916) was an American-born author who lived and worked in Europe, primarily in England, where he became a British subject in 1915. His body of work includes novels and novellas such as The Portrait of a Lady, The Turn of the Screw, and Daisy Miller, which often examine the compl...