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Most of James's work has remained continuously in print since its first publication, and he continues to be a major figure in realist fiction, influencing generations of novelists.

James has allowed the genre of the novel to become worthy of a literary critic's attention.

James has formulated a theory of fiction that many today still discuss and debate.

Testifying to his importance, a character named " Henry James " appears in at least a half-dozen novels, as noted above, the best-known of which is The Master by Colm Toibin.

Such disparate writers as Joyce Carol Oates with Accursed Inhabitants of the House of Bly ( 1994 ), Louis Auchincloss with The Ambassadress ( 1950 ), Tom Stoppard with The Real Thing ( 1982 ), and Alan Hollinghurst with The Line of Beauty ( 2004 ) were explicitly influenced by James's works.

James was definitely out of his element when it came to music, but Benjamin Britten's operatic version of " The Turn of the Screw " ( 1954 ) has become one of the composer's most popular works.

William Tuckett converted the story into a ballet in 1999.