Henry James 
Roderick Hudson 

Rowland Mallet, a wealthy Bostonian bachelor and art connoisseur, visits his cousin Cecilia in Massachusetts, and meets Roderick Hudson, a young law student who sculpts in his spare time. Mallet invites Roderick to join him in moving to Italy for two years, believing that in Rome, Roderick will be exposed to the kind of artistic influences which will allow his natural talent to fully mature. Roderick accepts, but the two man fall in love with a same woman and their paths.

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Henry James (1843-1916) was an American-British writer who spent most of his writing career in Britain. James is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He is best known for a number of novels dealing with the social and marital interplay between émigré Americans, English people, and continental Europeans – examples of such novels include The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, and The Wings of the Dove.