 Title page for Partial Portraits (1888) | |
| Author | Henry James |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Literary criticism |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Co., London |
Publication date | 8 May 1888 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages | 408 pp |
Partial Portraits is a book of literary criticism by Henry James published in 1888. The book collected essays that James had written over the preceding decade, mostly on English and American writers, but also on the works of Alphonse Daudet, Guy de Maupassant and Ivan Turgenev. Perhaps the most important essay was The Art of Fiction, James' argument for the widest possible freedom in content and technique in narrative fiction.