The Story of a Year
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The Story of a Year is the title of a short story
Short story
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...

 by American
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 writer Henry James
Henry James
Henry James, OM was an American-born writer, regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism. He was the son of Henry James, Sr., a clergyman, and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James....

 that first appeared in the March 1865 issue of the Atlantic Monthly. This story was never collected and published by James in book
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 form, but appears in the Library of America
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edition of his stories that cover the years 1864-1874.

The story is approximately 16,600 words in length and divided into five parts.

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