James, Henry (1843-1916), norte-americano:Roderick Hudson (1876);
Daisy Miller (1878);
Os Bostonianos (1885); Os Embaixadores (1903).
Ever since the 1903 publication of Henry James' "The Ambassadors," critics and readers have puzzled over a literary mystery that has come to be known as the Woollett Question. What, everyone from E.M. Forster to David Lodge has wanted to know, is the "little nameless object" manufactured in Woollett, Mass.? The case went cold at some point in the 1960s, but earlier this week it was reopened... and cracked.
