The Civil War interrupted his life and Henry was unable to enlist due to a slipped disc, an injury which caused him many troubles throughout his life. In 1862 he went to Harvard to study law but he never finished it. He published his first short story ?'A Tragedy of Errors''. His literary career began the same year as Hawthorne's came to an end...
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His literary career began the same year as Hawthorne's came to an end. If Balzac was the major foreign influence on James, Nathaniel Hawthorne was one of the principal American influences. James wrote many articles on Hawthorne, George Eliot and Turgenev, whom he admired as great writers. As an adult he made several transatlantic visits and in 1875, when he published his first volume of short stories A Passionate Pilgrim and Other Tales, he made the decision to live as an expatriate in Europe...
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