Henry James Books In Order

Standalone Novels In Publication Order

  1. Watch and Ward (1871)
  2. Roderick Hudson (1875)
  3. The American (1877)
  4. The Europeans (1878)
  5. Washington Square (1880)
  6. Confidence (1880)
  7. The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
  8. The Bostonians (1886)
  9. The Princess Casamassima (1886)
  10. The Reverberator (1888)
  11. The Tragic Muse (1890)
  12. The Spoils of Poynton (1896)
  13. The Other House (1896)
  14. What Maisie Knew (1897)
  15. The Awkward Age (1899)
  16. The Sacred Fount (1901)
  17. The Wings of the Dove (1902)
  18. The Ambassadors (1903)
  19. The Golden Bowl (1904)
  20. The Outcry (1911)
  21. The Ivory Tower (1917)
  22. The Sense of the Past (1917)

Short Stories/Novellas In Publication Order

  1. My Friend Bingham (1867)
  2. The Romance of Certain Old Clothes (1868)
  3. The Story of a Masterpiece (1868)
  4. A Passionate Pilgrim (1871)
  5. At Isella (1871)
  6. The Sweetheart of M. Briseux (1873)
  7. The Madonna of the Future (1873)
  8. Madame de Mauves (1874)
  9. The Last of the Valerii (1874)
  10. Adina (1874)
  11. Osborne’s Revenge (1874)
  12. Professor Fargo (1874)
  13. Eugene Pickering (1874)
  14. Benvolio (1875)
  15. Crawfords Consistency (1876)
  16. An International Episode (1876)
  17. Four Meetings (1877)
  18. Daisy Miller (1878)
  19. Longstaff’s Marriage (1878)
  20. The Diary of a Man of Fifty (1879)
  21. The Pension Beaurepas (1879)
  22. A Bundle of Letters (1879)
  23. The Point of View (1882)
  24. Pandora (1884)
  25. Georgina’s Reasons (1884)
  26. The Path of Duty (1884)
  27. The Author of Beltraffio (1884)
  28. The Lesson of the Master (1888)
  29. The Patagonia (1888)
  30. The Aspern Papers (1888)
  31. The Pupil (1891)
  32. Sir Edmund Orme (1891)
  33. The Real Thing (1892)
  34. Greville Fane (1892)
  35. Owen Wingrave (1892)
  36. Sir Dominick Ferrand (1892)
  37. The Private Life (1892)
  38. The Death of the Lion (1894)
  39. The Coxon Fund (1894)
  40. The Altar of the Dead (1895)
  41. The Figure in the Carpet (1896)
  42. John Delavoy (1898)
  43. In the Cage (1898)
  44. The Turn of the Screw (1898)
  45. Paste (1899)
  46. The Great Condition (1899)
  47. Maud-Evelyn (1900)
  48. The Great Good Place (1900)
  49. The Third Person (1900)
  50. Broken Wings (1900)
  51. The Tone of Time (1900)
  52. The Beldonald Holbein (1901)
  53. Mrs. Medwin (1901)
  54. The Beast in the Jungle (1903)
  55. The Birthplace (1903)
  56. The Marriages (1908)
  57. The Jolly Corner (1908)
  58. The Bench of Desolation (1909)
  59. Crapy Cornelia (1909)
  60. The Velvet Glove (1909)
  61. A Modern Warning / The Two Countries (2016)

Short Story Collections In Publication Order

  1. Selected Tales (1866)
  2. Complete Stories, 1864–1874 (1874)
  3. Complete Stories, 1874–1884 (1884)
  4. Complete Stories, 1884–1891 (1891)
  5. Ghost Stories of Henry James (1898)
  6. Complete Stories, 1892–1898 (1898)
  7. The Finer Grain (1910)
  8. Complete Stories, 1898–1910 (1910)
  9. Selected Poems of Henry James (2002)

Plays In Publication Order

  1. Pyramus and Thisbe (1869)

‘ Memoirs Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. A Small Boy and Others (1913)
  2. Notes of a Son and Brother (1914)
  3. The Middle Years (1917)

Non-Fiction Books In Publication Order

  1. The Novels of George Eliot (1866)
  2. How to Play Golf (1869)
  3. The Guest’s Confession (1872)
  4. The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855–1872: Volume 1 (1872)
  5. Parisian Sketches: Letters to the New York Tribune, 1875-1876 (1875)
  6. The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872–1876: Volume 2 (1876)
  7. The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872–1876: Volume 3 (1876)
  8. The Suburbs of London (1877)
  9. Hawthorne (1879)
  10. French Poets and Novelists (1883)
  11. The Letters of Henry James, Volume II (1883)
  12. A Little Tour in France (1884)
  13. Partial Portraits (1888)
  14. Terminations (1895)
  15. The Painter’s Eye (1897)
  16. The Better Sort (1903)
  17. English Hours (1905)
  18. Traveling in Italy with Henry James (1907)
  19. Italian Hours (1909)
  20. The Art of the Novel (1909)
  21. Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner (1914)
  22. Notes on Novelists with Some Other Notes by Henry James (1914)
  23. The Correspondence of Henry James and Henry Adams, 1877-1914 (1914)
  24. Selected Letters of Henry James to Edmund Gosse, 1882 1915 (1915)
  25. Henry James on Culture (1917)
  26. Letters to A.C. Benson and Auguste Monod (1930)
  27. William and Henry James: Selected Letters (1955)
  28. Selected Literary Criticism (1968)
  29. Collected Travel Writings (1993)
  30. The American Scene (1994)
  31. Within the Rim and Other Essays (2015)

Roderick Hudson (2 volumes) Books In Publication Order

  1. Roderick Hudson, in Two Volumes, Vol. I. (2018)
  2. Roderick Hudson, Vol. 2 of 2 (2018)

Anthologies In Publication Order

  1. The Whole Family (1908)
  2. 50 Great Short Stories (1952)
  3. 50 Great American Short Stories (1963)
  4. Magical Realist Fiction (1984)
  5. The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992)
  6. Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories (2021)

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Watch and Ward

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: HE summer passed away; Nora was turned sixteen. Deeming it time she should begin to see something of the world, Roger spent the autumn in travelling. Of his tour in Europe he had ceased to talk; it was indefinitely deferred. It matters little where they went; Nora greatly enjoyed the excursion, and found all spots alike delightful. To Roger himself it gave a great deal of comfort. Whether or no his companion was pretty, people certainly looked at her. He overheard them a dozen times call her ‘striking.’ Striking! The word seemed to him rich in meaning; if he had seen her for the first time taking the breeze on the deck of a river steamer, he certainly should have been struck. On his return home he found among his letters the following missive : My Dear Sir: b have learned, after various fruitless researches, that you have adopted my cousin. Miss Lambert, at the time she left St. Louis, was too young to know much about her family, or even to care much; and you, I suppose, have not investigated the subject. You, however, better than any one, can understand my desire to make her acquaintance. I hope you will not deny me the privilege. I am the second son of ahalf sister of her mother, between whom and my own mother there was always the greatest affection. It was not until some time after it happened that I heard of Mr. Lambert’s melancholy death. But it is useless to recur to that painful scene l resolved to spare no trouble in ascertaining the fate of his daughter. I have only just succeeded, after having almost given her up. I have thought it better to write to you than to her, but I beg you to give her my compliments. I anticipate no difficulty in satisfying you that am not an impostor. have no hope of being able to better her circumstances ; but, whatever they may…

Roderick Hudson

THE NOVELS AND TALES OF HENRY JAMES New York Edition VOLUME I RODERICK ON HENRY JAMES NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS COPYRIGHT 1907 CHARLES SCIUBNERS SONS RENEWAL COPYRIGHT 1935 HENRY JAMES A 8. 6r MH ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. NO PART OF THIS BOOK MAY BE REPRODUCED IN ANY FORM WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF CHARLES SCRIBNERS SONS. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA PREFACE Roderick Hudson was begun in Florence in the spring of 1874, designed from the first for serial publication in The Atlantic Monthly, where it opened in January 1875 and persisted through the year. I yield to the pleasure of placing these circumstances on record, as I shall place others, and as I have yielded to the need of renewing ac quaintance with the book after a quarter of a century. This revival of an all but extinct relation with an early work may often produce for an artist, I think, more kinds of interest and emotion than he shall find it easy to express, and yet will light not a little, to his eyes, that veiled face of his Muse which he is condemned for ever and all anxiously to study. The art of representation bristles with questions the very terms of which are difficult to apply and to appreciate but whatever makes it arduous makes it, for our refresh ment, infinite, causes the practice of it, with experience, to spread round us in a widening, not in a narrowing circle. Therefore it is that experience has to organise, for con venience and cheer, some system of observation for fear, in the admirable immensity, of losing its way. We see it as pausing from time to time to consult its notes, to measure, for guidance, as many aspects and distances as possible, as many steps taken and obstacles mastered and fruits gathered and beauties enjoyed. Everything counts, nothing is super fluous in such a survey the explorers note book strikes me here as endlessly receptive. This accordingly is what I mean by the contributive value or put it simply as, to ones own sense, the beguiling charm of the accessory facts in a given artistic case. This is why, as one looks back, the private history of any sincere work, however modest its pre tensions, looms with its own completeness in the rich, am biguous aesthetic air, and seems at once to borrow a dignity PREFACE and to mark, so to say, a station. This is why, reading over, for revision, correction and republication, the volumes here in hand, I find myself, all attentively, in presence of some such recording scroll or engraved commemorative table from which the private character, moreover, quite insists on dropping out. These notes represent, over a considerable course, the continuity of an artists endeavour, the growth of his whole operative consciousness and, best of all, perhaps, their own tendency to multiply, with the implication, thereby, of a memory much enriched. Addicted to stones and inclined to retrospect, he fondly takes, under this backward view, his whole unfolding, his process of production, for a thrilling tale, almost for a wondrous adventure, only asking himself at what stage of remembrance the mark of the relevant will begin to fail. He frankly proposes to take this mark everywhere for granted. Roderick Hudson was my first attempt at a novel, a long fiction with a complicated subject, and I recall again the quite uplifted sense with which my idea, such as it was, permitted me at last to put quite out to sea. I had but hugged the shore on sundry previous small occasions bumping about, to acquire skill, in the shallow waters and sandy coves of the short story and master as yet of no vessel constructed to carry a sail. The subject of Rod erick figured to me vividly this employment of canvas, and I have not forgotten, even after long years, how the blue southern sea seemed to spread immediately before me and the breath of the spice islands to be already in the breeze…

The American

On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentleman was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been removed, to the extreme regret of all weak kneed lovers of the fine arts, but the gentleman in question had taken serene possession of its softest spot, and, with his head thrown back and his legs outstretched, was staring at Murillo’s beautiful moon borne Madonna in profound enjoyment of his posture. He had removed his hat, and flung down beside him a little red guide book and an opera glass. The day was warm; he was heated with walking, and he repeatedly passed his handkerchief over his forehead, with a somewhat wearied gesture. And yet he was evidently not a man to whom fatigue was familiar; long, lean, and muscular, he suggested the sort of vigor that is commonly known as ‘toughness.’ But his exertions on this particular day had been of an unwonted sort, and he had performed great physical feats which left him less jaded than his tranquil stroll through the Louvre. He had looked out all the pictures to which an asterisk was affixed in those formidable pages of fine print in his Badeker; his attention had been strained and his eyes dazzled, and he had sat down with an aesthetic headache.

The Europeans

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG A narrow grave yard in the heart of a bustling, indifferent city, seen from the windows of a gloomy looking inn, is at no time an object of enlivening suggestion; and the spectacle is not at its best when the mouldy tombstones and funereal umbrage have received the ineffectual refreshment of a dull, moist snow fall. If, while the air is thickened by this frosty drizzle, the calendar should happen to indicate that the blessed vernal season is already six weeks old, it will be admitted that no depressing influence is absent from the scene. This fact was keenly felt on a certain 12th of May, upwards of thirty years since, by a lady who stood looking out of one of the windows of the best hotel in the ancient city of Boston. She had stood there for half an hour stood there, that is, at intervals; for from time to time she turned back into the room and measured its length with a restless step. In the chimney place was a red hot fire which emitted a small blue flame; and in front of the fire, at a table, sat a young man who was busily plying a pencil. He had a number of sheets of paper cut into small equal squares, and he was apparently covering them with pictorial designs strange looking figures. He worked rapidly and attentively, sometimes threw back his head and held out his drawing at arm’s length, and kept up a soft, gay sounding humming and whistling.

Washington Square

One of the most instantly appealing of James’s early masterpieces, Washington Square is a tale of a trapped daughter and domineering father, a quiet tragedy of money and love and innocence betrayed. Catherine Sloper, heiress to a fortune, attracts the attention of a good looking but penniless young man, Morris Townsend, but her father is convinced that his motives are merely mercenary. He will not consent to the marriage, regardless of the cost to his daughter. Out of this classic confrontation Henry James fashioned one of his most deftly searching shorter fictions, a tale of great depth of meaning and understanding. First published in 1880 but set some forty years earlier in a pre Civil War New York, the novel reflects ironically on the restricted world in which its hero*ine is marooned. In his excellent introduction Adrian Poole reflects on the book’s gestation and influences, the significance of place, and the insight with which the four principal players are drawn. The book also includes an up to date bibliography, illuminating notes, and a discussion of stage and film adaptations of the story. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford’s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up to date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Confidence

It was in the early days of April; Bernard Longueville had been spending the winter in Rome. He had travelled northward with the consciousness of several social duties that appealed to him from the further side of the Alps, but he was under the charm of the Italian spring, and he made a pretext for lingering. He had spent five days at Siena, where he had intended to spend but two, and still it was impossible to continue his journey. He was a young man of a contemplative and speculative turn, and this was his first visit to Italy, so that if he dallied by the way he should not be harshly judged. He had a fancy for sketching, and it was on his conscience to take a few pictorial notes. There were two old inns at Siena, both of them very shabby and very dirty. The one at which Longueville had taken up his abode was entered by a dark, pestiferous arch way, surmounted by a sign which at a distance might have been read by the travellers as the Dantean injunction to renounce all hope. The other was not far off, and the day after his arrival, as he passed it, he saw two ladies going in who evidently belonged to the large fraternity of Anglo Saxon tourists, and one of whom was young and carried herself very well.

The Portrait of a Lady

The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader’s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works.

Widely regarded as Henry James‘s greatest masterpiece, The Portrait of a Lady features one of the author s most magnificent hero*ines: Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American who becomes a victim of her provincialism during her travels in Europe.

As the story begins, Isabel, resolved to determine her own fate, has turned down two eligible suitors. Her cousin, who is dying of tuberculosis, secretly gives her an inheritance so that she can remain independent and fulfill a grand destiny, but the fortune only leads her to make a tragic choice and marry Gilbert Osmond, an American expatriate who lives in Florence. Outwardly charming and cultivated, but fundamentally cold and cruel, Osmond only brings heartbreak and ruin to Isabel s life. Yet she survives as she begins to realize that true freedom means living with her choices and their consequences.

Richly complex and nearly aesthetically perfect, The Portrait of a Lady brilliantly portrays the clash between the innocence and exuberance of the New World and the corruption and wisdom of the Old.

Gabriel Brownstein is the author of a collection of stories The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt 3W which won the 2002 PEN/Hemingway Award. His essays, reviews, and criticism have appeared in the Boston Globe, the New Leader, Scribner s British Writers, and on Nerve. com.

The Bostonians

The Bostonians, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. Nearly a century before the birth of the contemporary feminist movement, Henry James dealt with its nineteenth century forerunner in The Bostonians. Mixing acute social observation and psychological analysis with mordant humor, James hangs his story on a unique instance of the traditional romantic triangle. At its apex stands the vibrantly beautiful Verena Tarrant, an intense public speaker who arouses the passions of two very different people. Olive Chancellor, a Boston bred suffragette, dreams of turning Verena into a fiery campaigner for women’s rights. Basil Ransom, a Mississippi bred lawyer, dreams of turning her into his wife. As these two struggle for possession of Verena s soul and body their confusions, crises, and conflicts begin almost preternaturally to prefigure today s sexual politics. In fact, James s complex portrait of Olive and her ideals, savagely satirical yet sympathetic and so controversial when it first appeared, continues to evoke both anger and admiration. But he treats Verena and Basil with equal complexity, climaxed by the novel s quietly haunting final sentence. Siri Hustvedt earned a Ph.D. in English from Columbia University in 1986 and is the author of a book of poetry, Reading to You; three novels: The Blindfold, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, and What I Loved; and a book of essays, Yonder.

The Princess Casamassima

The illegitimate and impoverished son of a dressmaker and a nobleman, Hyacinth Robinson has grown up with a strong sense of beauty that heightens his acute sympathy for the inequalities that surround him. Drawn into a secret circle of radical politics he makes a rash vow to commit a violent act of terrorism. But when The Princess Casamassima beautiful, clever and bored takes him up and introduces him to her own world of wealth and refinement, Hyacinth is torn. He is horrified by the destruction that would be wreaked by revolution, but still believes he must honour his vow, and finds himself gripped in an agonizing and, ultimately, fatal dilemma. A compelling blend of psychological observation, wit and compassion, ‘The Princess Casamassima‘ 1886 is one of Henry James’s most deeply personal novels.

The Tragic Muse

‘You must paint her just like that…
as The Tragic Muse‘ Suggests one of James’ characters to Nick Dormer, the young Englishman who, during the course of the novel, will courageously resist the glittering Parliamentary career desired for him by his family, in order to paint. His progress is counterpointed by the ‘Tragic Muse’ of the title, Miriam Rooth, one of James’ most fierily beautiful creations, a great actress indifferent to social reputation, and triumphantly dedicated to her art. In portraying the conflict between art and ‘the world’ which is his novel’s central idea, James engaged obliquely with current debates on the new aestheticism of Pater and Wilde and on the nature of the actor’s performance. Through the living complexity of his protagonists he reveals how much, as Philip Horne puts it, ‘to take art seriously as an end in itself…
is still a provocative course’.

The Spoils of Poynton

Mrs. Gereth had said she would go with the rest to church, but suddenly it seemed to her that she should not be able to wait even till church time for relief: breakfast, at Waterbath, was a punctual meal, and she had still nearly an hour on her hands. Knowing the church to be near, she prepared in her room for the little rural walk, and on her way down again, passing through corridors and observing imbecilities of decoration, the esthetic misery of the big commodious house, she felt a return of the tide of last night’s irritation, a renewal of everything she could secretly suffer from ugliness and stupidity. Why did she consent to such contacts? why did she so rashly expose herself? She had had, heaven knew, her reasons, but the whole experience was to be sharper than she had feared. To get away from it and out into the air, into the presence of sky and trees, flowers and birds, was a necessity of every nerve. The flowers at Waterbath bath would probably go wrong in color and the nightingales sing out of tune; but she remembered to have heard the place described as possessing those advantages that are usually spoken of as natural. There were advantages enough it clearly didn’t possess. It was hard for her to believe that a woman could look presentable who had been kept awake for hours by the wallpaper in her room; yet nonetheless, as in her fresh widow’s weeds she rustled across the hall, she was sustained by the consciousness, which always added to the unction of her social Sundays, that she was, as usual, the only person in the house incapable of wearing in her preparation the horrible stamp of the same exceptional smartness that would be conspicuous in a grocer’s wife. She would rather have perished than have looked _endimanchee._

The Other House

This terse and startling novel, written just before The Spoils of Poynton and What Maisie Knew,is the story of a struggle for possession and of its devastating consequences. Three women seek to secure the affections of one man, while he, in turn, tries to satisfy them all. But in the middle of this contest of wills stands his unwitting and vulnerable young daughter. The savage conclusion of The Other House makes it one of the most disturbing and memorable of Henry James’s depictions of the uncontrollable passions that lie beneath the polished veneer of civilized life.

Oh blest Other House, which gives me thus at every step a precedent, a divine little light to walk by…
Henry James

What Maisie Knew

What Maisie Knew 1897 represents one of James’s finest reflections on the rites of passage from wonder to knowledge, and the question of their finality. The child of violently divorced parents, Maisie Farange opens her eyes on a distinctly modern world. Mothers and fathers keep changing their partners and names, while she herself becomes the pretext for all sorts of adult sexual intrigue. In this classic tale of the death of childhood, there is a savage comedy that owes much to Dickens. But for his portrayal of the child’s capacity for intelligent wonder’, James summons all the subtlety he devotes elsewhere to his most celebrated adult protagonists. Neglected and exploited by everyone around her, Maisie inspires James to dwell with extraordinary acuteness on the things that may pass between adult and child. In addition to a new introduction, this edition of the novel offers particularly detailed notes, bibliography, and a list of variant readings. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford’s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up to date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The Awkward Age

Save when it happened to rain Vanderbank always walked home, but he usually took a hansom when the rain was moderate and adopted the preference of the philosopher when it was heavy. On this occasion he therefore recognised as the servant opened the door a congruity between the weather and the ‘four wheeler’ that, in the empty street, under the glazed radiance, waited and trickled and blackly glittered. The butler mentioned it as on such a wild night the only thing they could get, and Vanderbank, having replied that it was exactly what would do best, prepared in the doorway to put up his umbrella and dash down to it. At this moment he heard his name pronounced from behind and on turning found himself joined by the elderly fellow guest with whom he had talked after dinner and about whom later on upstairs he had sounded his hostess. It was at present a clear question of how this amiable, this apparently unassertive person should get home of the possibility of the other cab for which even now one of the footmen, with a whistle to his lips, craned out his head and listened through the storm. Mr. Longdon wondered to Vanderbank if their course might by any chance be the same; which led our young friend immediately to express a readiness to see him safely in any direction that should accommodate him.

The Sacred Fount

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The Wings of the Dove

The Wings of the Dove, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics: New introductions commissioned from today’s top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader’s viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. One of three masterpieces from Henry James’s final, major phase, The Wings of the Dove dramatizes the conflict between nineteenth century values and twentieth century passions. Born to wealth and privilege, Kate Croy s mother threw it all away to marry a penniless opium addict. After her mother s death, Kate is offered an opportunity to return to the opulent lifestyle her mother gave up on one condition. Kate must renounce the man she loves: the witty, good looking, but poor, Merton Densher. Reluctantly agreeing, Kate finds herself becoming friends with the world s richest orphan, Millie Theale. When Kate learns that Millie is dying, she devises a plan of dizzying possibility for herself and Merton that should solve all their problems, but instead leads them down a path strewn with tragic, unexpected consequences. First published in 1902, this rich and intriguing novel has lost none of its fascination and relevance a century later. Bruce L. R. Smith is a Fellow of the Heyman Center for the Humanities of Columbia University. He has served as Professor of Public Law and Government at Columbia, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and as an official in the U. S. State Department. He is the author or editor of sixteen scholarly books, and lectures widely on public affairs and literary topics.

The Ambassadors

The Ambassadors, by Henry James, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influences biographical, historical, and literary to enrich each reader’s understanding of these enduring works. One of Henry James’s three late masterpieces, and an exemplar of his complex, mature style, The Ambassadors is considered by many the author s finest work. James himself judged it to be frankly, quite the best, all round, of my productions. The story follows Lambert Strether, a staunch and stoical New Englander, as he travels abroad to rescue his employer s prodigal son, Chad, from the seductive pitfalls of existence in Paris. Yet the social pleasures of the European capital awaken new urges in the fifty five year old, and he begins to reconsider his own inadequately realized life. He soon beseeches Chad, Live all you can; it s a mistake not to. It doesn t so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven t had that what have you had? As Strether himself becomes involved in a relationship with the fascinating Maria Gostrey, a second, more determined, ambassador is dispatched. An ultimatum is delivered and resisted but then an accident reveals surprising truths to Strether, and he must decide whether his loyalties lie with old Europe or new America. A bittersweet paean to the life not lived, The Ambassadors is one of the most achingly beautiful and moving novels ever written. Kyle Patrick Smith was raised in San Diego, California, and educated at Harvard. A writer and critic, he lives in Manhattan.

The Golden Bowl

Published in 1904, The Golden Bowl is the last completed novel of Henry James. In it, the widowed American Adam Verver is in Europe with his daughter Maggie. They are rich, finely appreciative of European art and culture, and deeply attached to each other. Maggie has all the innocent charm of so many of Jamess young American hero*ines. She is engaged to Amerigo, an impoverished Italian prince; he must marry money, and as his name suggests, an American heiress is the perfect solution. The Golden Bowl, first seen in a London curio shop, is used emblematically throughout the novel. Not solid gold but gilded crystal, the perfect surface conceals a flaw; it is symbolic of the relationship between the main characters and of the world in which they move.
Also in Europe is an old friend of Maggies, Charlotte Stant, a girl of great charm and independence, and Maggie is blindly ignorant of the fact that she and the prince are lovers. Maggie and Amerigo are married and have a son, but Maggie remains dependent for real intimacy on her father, and she and Amerigo grow increasingly apart. Feeling that her father has suffered a loss through her marriage, Maggie decides to find him a wife, and her choice falls on Charlotte. Charlottes affair with the prince continues and Adam Verver seems to her to be a suitable and convenient match. When Maggie herself finally comes into possession of The Golden Bowl, the flaw is revealed to her, and, inadvertently, the truth about Amerigo and Charlotte. Fanny Assingham an older woman, aware of the truth from the beginning deliberately breaks the bowl, and this marks the end of Maggies innocence. She is no pathetic hero*ine victim, however. Abstaining from outcry and outrage she instead takes the reins and maneuvers people and events. She still wants to be with Amerigo, but he must continue to be worth having and they must all be saved further humiliations and indignities. To be a wife she must cease to be a daughter; Adam Verver and the unhappy Charlotte are banished forever to America, and the new Maggie will establish a real marriage with Amerigo.

The Outcry

The Outcry, Henry James’s final novel, is an effervescent comedy of money and manners. Breckenridge Bender, a very rich American with a distinct resemblance to J.P. Morgan, arrives in England with the purpose of acquiring some very great art; he is directed to Dedborough, the estate of the debt ridden Lord Theign. But plutocrat and aristocrat come into unexpected conflict when a young connoisseur, out to establish his own reputation, declares a prize painting from the lord’s collection to be in fact an even rarer, and pricier, work than had been thought.A popular success in its own day, but long unavailable since and now almost unknown, The Outcry is one of the most surprising and amusing of James’s works. Here he explores questions of privilege and initiative, repute and honor, high art and base calculation, revisiting some of his favorite themes with a deft and winning touch.

The Ivory Tower

In 1914, Henry James began work on a major novel about the immense new fortunes of America’s Gilded Age. After an absence of more than twenty years, James had returned for a visit to his native country; what he found there filled him with profound dismay. In The Ivory Tower, his last book, the characteristic pattern underlying so much of his fiction in which American ‘innocence’ is transformed by its encounter with European ‘experience’ receives a new twist: raised abroad, the hero comes home to America to confront, as James puts it, ‘the black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.’ James died in 1916 with the first three books of The Ivory Tower completed. He also left behind a ‘treatment,’ in which he charted the further progress of his story. This fascinating scenario, one of only two to survive among James’s papers, is also published here together with a striking critical essay by Ezra Pound.

The Sense of the Past

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My Friend Bingham

I started at a hard run. I left the beach behind me, passed the white cottage at whose garden gate two women were gossiping, and reached the hotel stable, where I had the good fortune to find a vehicle at my disposal. I drove straight back to the white cottage. One of the women had disappeared, and the other was lingering among her flowers, a middle aged, keen eyed person. As I descended and hastily addressed her, I read in her rapid glance an anticipation of evil tidings.

The Romance of Certain Old Clothes

Towards each other, however, they were somewhat more on the offensive. They were good sisterly friends, betwixt whom it would take more than a day for the seeds of jealousy to sprout and bear fruit; but the young girls felt that the seeds had been sown on the day that Mr. Lloyd came into the house. Each made up her mind that, if she should be slighted, she would bear her grief in silence, and that no one should be any the wiser; for if they had a great deal of love, they had also a great deal of pride.

The Story of a Masterpiece

Exactly, but not at all in that sentimental tone. I took him to Mrs. Denbigh; they found they were sixth cousins by marriage; he came to see us the next day, and insisted upon our going to his studio. It was a miserable place. I believe he was very poor. At least Mrs. Denbigh offered him some money, and he frankly accepted it. She attempted to spare his sensibilities by telling him that, if he liked, he could paint her a picture in return. He said he would if he had time. Later, he came up into Switzerland, and the following Winter we met him in Paris.

At Isella

It seemed altogether a larger possibility than any he had been prepared for that on his complaining of the cold I should offer him the use of my overcoat. Of this and of other personal belongings he ventured to inquire the price, and indeed seemed oppressed with the sudden expensiveness of the world. But now that he was fairly launched he was moving in earnest. He was to reach Brieg, if possible, in time for the night diligence over the Simplon, which was to deposit him at the Hospice on the summit.

The Madonna of the Future

We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched the high level of perfection. Our host had been showing us a charming little cabinet picture by a painter whose name we had never heard, and who, after this single spasmodic bid for fame, had apparently relapsed into obscurity and mediocrity. There was some discussion as to the frequency of this phenomenon; during which, I observed, H sat silent, finishing his cigar with a meditative air, and looking at the picture which was being handed round the table. ‘I don’t know how common a case it is,’ he said at last, ‘but I have seen it. I have known a poor fellow who painted his one masterpiece, and’ he added with a smile ‘he didn’t even paint that. He made his bid for fame and missed it.’ We all knew H for a clever man who had seen much of men and manners, and had a great stock of reminiscences. Someone immediately questioned him further, and while I was engrossed with the raptures of my neighbor over the little picture, he was induced to tell his tale. If I were to doubt whether it would bear repeating, I should only have to remember how that charming woman, our hostess, who had left the table, ventured back in rustling rose color to pronounce our lingering a want of gallantry, and, finding us a listening circle, sank into her chair in spite of our cigars, and heard the story out so graciously that, when the catastrophe was reached, she glanced across at me and showed me a tear in each of her beautiful eyes.

The Last of the Valerii

She rode with him sometimes in the tufty shadow of aqueducts and tombs, and sometimes suffered him to show his beautiful wife at Roman dinners and balls. She played dominoes with him after dinner, and carried out in a desultory way a daily scheme of reading him the newspapers. This observance was subject to fluctuations caused by the Counts invincible tendency to go to sleep, a failing his wife never attempted to disguise or palliate. She would sit and brush the flies from him while he lay picturesquely snoozing, and, if I ventured near him, would place her linger on her lips and whisper that she thought her husband was as handsome asleep as awake.

Professor Fargo

It seemed to give him pleasure to trifle with my longing for this sensation. ‘I’ll give you leave,’ he said, for all answer, ‘to tie my hands into the tightest knot you can invent and then I’ll make your great grandfather come in and stop the clock. You know I couldn’t stop a clock, perched up on a mantel shelf five feet high, with my heels.’

Eugene Pickering

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Benvolio

Both his movements and his stillness immediately announced to Benvolio‘s fine sense that he was blind. In his quality of poet Benvolio was inventive; a brain that is constantly cudgelled for rhymes is tolerably alert. In a few moments, therefore, he had given a vigorous push to the wheel of fortune. Various things had happened. He had made a soft, respectful speech, he hardly knew about what; and the old man had told him he had a delectable voice a voice that seemed to belong rather to a person of education than to a tradesman’s porter.

An International Episode

Four years ago in 1874 two young Englishmen had occasion to go to the United States. They crossed the ocean at midsummer, and, arriving in New York on the first day of August, were much struck with the fervid temperature of that city. Disembarking upon the wharf, they climbed into one of those huge high hung coaches which convey passengers to the hotels, and with a great deal of bouncing and bumping, took their course through Broadway. The midsummer aspect of New York is not, perhaps, the most favorable one; still, it is not without its picturesque and even brilliant side. Nothing could well resemble less a typical English street than the interminable avenue, rich in incongruities, through which our two travelers advanced looking out on each side of them at the comfortable animation of the sidewalks, the high colored, heterogeneous architecture, the huge white marble fa ades glittering in the strong, crude light, and bedizened with gilded lettering, the multifarious awnings, banners, and streamers, the extraordinary number of omnibuses, horsecars, and other democratic vehicles, the vendors of cooling fluids, the white trousers and big straw hats of the policemen, the tripping gait of the modish young persons on the pavement, the general brightness, newness, juvenility, both of people and things.

Four Meetings

My relative, as it proved, was not sufficiently restored to leave the place by the afternoon train; so that as the autumn dusk began to fall I found myself at liberty to call at the establishment named to me by my friends. I must confess that I had spent much of the interval in wondering what the disagreeable thing was that the less attractive of these had been telling the other.

Daisy Miller

With an Introduction and Notes by Pat Righelato, University of Reading Daisy Miller is one of Henry James’s most attractive hero*ines: she represents youth and frivolity. As a tourist in Italy, her American freedom and freshness of spirit come up against the corruption and hypocrisy of European manners. From its first publication, readers on both sides of the Atlantic have quarrelled about her, defending or attacking the liberties that Daisy takes and the conventions that she ignores. All three tales in this collection, Daisy Miller, An International Episode and Lady Barbarina, express James’s most notable subject, ‘the international theme’, the encounters, romantic and cultural, between Americans and Europeans. His heroes and hero*ines approach each other on unfamiliar ground with new freedoms, yet find themselves unexpectedly hampered by old constraints. In An International Episode, an English lord visiting Newport, Rhode Island, falls in love with an American girl, but their relationship becomes more complicated when she travels to London. In the light hearted comedy Lady Barbarina, a rich young American seeks an English aristocratic bride. The unusual outcomes of these three tales pose a number of social questions about marriage and the traditional roles of men and women. Is an international marriage symbolic of the highest cultural fusion of values or is it an old style raid and capture? Is marriage to remain the feminine destination?

Longstaff’s Marriage

Before she knew it Agatha was blushing a little; for, to the ear, simply, his words implied that it was to her only he would appeal for the pleasure he had coveted. But the next instant she had become conscious that what he meant was simply that he admired her companion so much that he was afraid of her, and that, daring to speak to herself; he thought her a much smaller and less interesting personage.

The Diary of a Man of Fifty

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A Bundle of Letters

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Written in the form of epistles, the humour and wit of this work is irresistible. Letters from different characters who belong to different nationalities are included in the work. Each character has its own individuality and is drawn in detail. The story monopolizes the attention from the very beginning.

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The Point of View

Work by the prolific American born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on themes of consciousness and morality.

Pandora

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The work presents a woman of the new era in America. In an array of characters belonging to the elite, James has created a woman who is self made and self possessed; who knows what she wants and is ready to achieve her goals. The intriguing character mystifies other characters as well as the reader.

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Georgina’s Reasons

Henry James 1843 1916, was an American born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on themes of consciousness and morality. He significantly contributed to the criticism of fiction, particularly in his insistence that writers be allowed the greatest freedom possible in presenting their view of the world. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and possibly unreliable narrators in his own novels and tales brought a new depth and interest to narrative fiction. He is one of the major figures of trans Atlantic literature. His works include The American 1877, Daisy Miller 1878, Confidence 1879, A Bundle of Letters 1879, The Author of Beltraffio 1884, The Bostonians 1886, The Aspern Papers 1888, The Awkward Age 1899, and The Ambassadors 1903.

The Path of Duty

Henry James 1843 1916, was an American born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on themes of consciousness and morality. He significantly contributed to the criticism of fiction, particularly in his insistence that writers be allowed the greatest freedom possible in presenting their view of the world. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and possibly unreliable narrators in his own novels and tales brought a new depth and interest to narrative fiction. He is one of the major figures of trans Atlantic literature. His works include The American 1877, Daisy Miller 1878, Confidence 1879, A Bundle of Letters 1879, The Author of Beltraffio 1884, The Bostonians 1886, The Aspern Papers 1888, The Awkward Age 1899, and The Ambassadors 1903.

The Lesson of the Master

Henry James is one of the founders and leaders of a school of realism in fiction; the fine art of his writing has led many academics to consider him the greatest master of the novel and novella form. He spent much of his life in England and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for a series of major novels in which he portrayed the encounter of America with Europe. His plots centered on personal relationships, the proper exercise of power in such relationships, and other moral questions. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allowed him to explore the phenomena of consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting.

The Patagonia

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This is a unique work where the tragedy of a personal nature is set in the backdrop of international scenario. James focuses on the influence of the European society on the American people. He also discusses the plight of a woman who has to face the world on her own. A captivating tale!

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The Aspern Papers

Novel by the prolific American born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on themes of consciousness and morality. One of James’ best known and most acclaimed longer tales, The Aspern Papers is based on an anecdote that James heard about a Shelley devotee who tried to obtain some valuable letters written by the poet. Set in a brilliantly described Venice, this novel demonstrates James’ ability to generate almost unbearable suspense while never neglecting the masterful development of his characters.

The Pupil

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG The poor young man hesitated and procrastinated: it cost him such an effort to broach the subject of terms, to speak of money to a person who spoke only of feelings and, as it were, of the aristocracy. Yet he was unwilling to take leave, treating his engagement as settled, without some more conventional glance in that direction than he could find an opening for in the manner of the large affable lady who sat there drawing a pair of soiled gants de Suede through a fat jewelled hand and, at once pressing and gliding, repeated over and over everything but the thing he would have liked to hear. He would have liked to hear the figure of his salary; but just as he was nervously about to sound that note the little boy came back the little boy Mrs. Moreen had sent out of the room to fetch her fan. He came back without the fan, only with the casual observation that he couldn’t find it. As he dropped this cynical confession he looked straight and hard at the candidate for the honour of taking his education in hand. This personage reflected somewhat grimly that the thing he should have to teach his little charge would be to appear to address himself to his mother when he spoke to her especially not to make her such an improper answer as that.

The Real Thing

Work by the prolific American-born author and literary critic of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on themes of consciousness and morality.

Owen Wingrave

It was the fact that the occupants of Paramore did indeed take their trouble hard that struck Spencer Coyle after he had been an hour or two in that fine old house. This very short second visit, beginning on the Saturday evening, was to constitute the strangest episode of his life. As soon as he found himself in private with his wife they had retired to dress for dinner they called each other’s attention with effusion and almost with alarm to the sinister gloom that was stamped on the place.

Sir Dominick Ferrand

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The Private Life

‘Oh, you don’t know how he’s armed!’ she exclaimed, with such an odd quaver that I could account for it only by her being nervous. This idea was confirmed by her moving just afterwards, changing her seat rather pointlessly, not as if to cut our conversation short, but because she was in a fidget. I couldn’t know what was the matter with her, but I was presently relieved to see Mrs Adney come toward us.

The Coxon Fund

The first stand alone edition of this lesser known novella from the master of the form is a wry comedy about the fine line between making art and freeloading. Henry James examines one of his favorite topics the artist’s place in society by profiling a ‘genius’ who just can’t seem to support himself. A dazzling intellectual and brilliant speaker, Mr. Saltram has become the most sought after houseguest in England. As the society ladies compete to see who can host him more lavishly, Saltram warms to the many comforts of English country house living. And, as his intellectual labors slacken, it becomes harder and harder to get him to leave.

The Altar of the Dead

Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www. 1stWorldLibrary. ORG He had a mortal dislike, poor Stransom, to lean anniversaries, and loved them still less when they made a pretence of a figure. Celebrations and suppre ssions were equally painful to him, and but one of the former found a place in his life. He had kept each year in his own fashion the date of Mary Antrim’s death. It would be more to the point perhaps to say that this occasion kept HIM: it kept him at least effectually from doing anything else. It took hold of him again and again with a hand of which time had softened but never loosened the touch. He waked to his feast of memory as consciously as he would have waked to his marriage morn. Marriage had had of old but too little to say to the matter: for the girl who was to have been his bride there had been no bridal embrace. She had died of a malignant fever after the wedding day had been fixed, and he had lost before fairly tasting it an affection that promised to fill his life to the brim. Of that benediction, however, it would have been false to say this life could really be emptied: it was still ruled by a pale ghost, still ordered by a sovereign presence.

John Delavoy

Not a line not a syllable. Don’t you remember how you warned me against spoiling it? It’s of the thing we read together, liked together, went over and over together; it’s of this dear little serious thing of good sense and good faith’ and I held up my roll of proof, shaking it even as Mr Beston had shaken it ‘that he expresses that opinion.

In the Cage

In the Cage 1898 IT hacl occuned to her cnrly that in hex position that of B ouilg perso11 spending, in framed and wired confinenlellt, the life of a guinea pig or a magpie she sllould know a great many persons without their recognising the acquaintance. That illade it an cinotio lt l em ore lively tliough singularly rare and always, eren then, with opportunity still rcry mucl1 smothered to sec any one come in vhom she kncir, as she called it, outside, and who co lld add soincthing to the poor identity of her function. EIer function was to sit there with two young men the other telegraphist and the counter clerk to mind the sounder, which was always going, to dole out stamps and postal orders, weigh letters, answer stupid questions, give difficult change and, inore apartments, Simpkins, Ladles, Thrupps, just round the corner, was so select that his place was quite pervaded by the crisp rustle of these emblems she pushed out the sovereigns as if the applicant were no more to her than one of the momentary appearances in the great procession and this perhaps all the more from the very fact of the connection only recognised outside indeed to which she had lent herself with ridiculous inconsequence. She recognised the others the less because she had at last so unreservedly, so irredeemably, recognised Mr. Mudge. But she was a little ashamed, none the less, of having to admit to herself that Mr. Rludges removal to a higher sphere to a more commanding position, that is, though to a much lower neighbourhoodwould have been described still better as a luxury than as the simplification that she contented herself with calling it. He had, at any rate, ceased to be all day long in her eyes, and this left something a little fresh for them to rest on of a Sunday. During the three months that he had remained at Co*ckers after her consent to their engagement, she had often asked herself what it was that marriage would be able to add to a familiarity so final. Opposite there, behind the counter of which his superior stature, his whiter apron, his more clustering curls and more present, too present, hs had been for a couple of years the principal ornament, he had moved to and fro before her as on the small sanded floor of their contracted future. She was conscious now of the improvement of not having to take her present and her future at once. They were about as much as she could manage when taken separate. She had, none the less, to give her mind steadily to what Mr. Mudge had again written her about, the idea of her applying for a transfer to an office quite similar she couldnt yet hope for a place in a bigger under the very roof where he was foreman, so that, dangled before her every minute of the day, he should see her, as he called it, hourly, and in a part, the far N. W. district, where, with her mother, she would save, on their two rooms alone, nearly three shillings. It would be far from dazzling to exchange Mayfair for Chalk Farm, and it was something of a predicament that he so kept at her still, it was nothing to the old prcJicainents, those of tlic early times of their great inisery, her own, her mothers, i ld Ilci elder sistel.’s the last of vhoin llnd succunrl ccl to all b u t nbaolutc want V hen, as conscious, i lcretul lous ladies, suddcilly bereaved, hctrayed, ovcr rhclmed, they had slipped faster and faster donrll the steep slope at the bottom of never rcl ouncletl ally more at the bottonl than on thc way 11ad oilly ri i lbleadn d gruinblcd down and tlowil, nialiiilg, in 1 cspect of caps and conversation, no ellbrt vhntevcl a, ilcl too often, alas smclling of r hisliy…

The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw is a novella short novel written by Henry James. Originally published in 1898, it is ostensibly a ghost story. Due to its ambiguous content, it became a favorite text of academics who subscribe to New Criticism. The novella has had differing interpretations, often mutually exclusive. Many critics have tried to determine the exact nature of the evil hinted at by the story. An unnamed narrator listens to a male friend reading a manuscript written by a former governess whom the friend claims to have known and who is now dead. The manuscript tells the story of how the young governess is hired by a man who has become responsible for his young nephew and niece after the death of their parents. He lives mainly in London and is not interested in raising the children himself. The boy, Miles, is attending a boarding school, while his younger sister, Flora, is living at a country estate in Essex. She is currently being cared for by the housekeeper, Mrs. Grose. The governess’s new employer, the uncle of Miles and Flora, gives her full charge of the children and explicitly states that she is not to bother him with communications of any sort. The governess travels to her new employer’s country house and begins her duties. Miles soon returns from school for the summer just after a letter arrives from the headmaster stating that he has been expelled. Miles never speaks of the matter, and the governess is hesitant to raise the issue. She fears that there is some horrid secret behind the expulsion, but is too charmed by the adorable young boy to want to press the issue. Soon thereafter, the governess begins to see around the grounds of the estate the figures of a man and woman whom she does not recognize. These figures come and go at will without ever being seen or challenged by other members of the household, and they seem to the governess to be supernatural. She learns from Mrs. Grose that her predecessor, Miss Jessel, and another employee, Peter Quint, had had a sexual relationship with each other and had both died. Prior to their deaths, they spent much of their time with Flora and Miles, and this fact has grim significance for the governess when she becomes convinced that the two children are secretly aware of the presence of the ghosts. Later, Flora leaves the house while Miles plays music for the governess. They notice Flora’s absence and go to look for her. The governess and Mrs. Grose find her in a clearing in the wood, and the governess is convinced that she has been talking to Miss Jessel. When she finally confronts Flora, Flora denies seeing Miss Jessel, and demands never to see the governess again. Mrs. Grose takes Flora away to her uncle, leaving the governess with Miles. That night, they are finally talking of Miles’ expulsion when the ghost of Quint appears to the governess at the window. The governess shields Miles, who attempts to see the ghost. The governess tells him that he is no longer controlled by the ghost, and then finds that Miles has died in her arms.

Maud-Evelyn

I can see Lavinia for instance in her ugly new mourning immediately after her mother’s death. There had been long anxieties connected with this event, and she was already faded, already almost old. But Marmaduke, on her bereavement, had been to her, and she came straightway to me.

The Great Good Place

Dane picked out of his dim past a dozen halting similes. The sacred silent convent was one; another was the bright country house. He did the place no outrage to liken it to an hotel; he permitted himself on occasion to feel it suggest a club. Such images, however, but flickered and went out they lasted only long enough to light up the difference. An hotel without noise, a club without newspapers when he turned his face to what it was ‘without’ the view opened wide.

The Tone of Time

I saw her ask herself for an instant if she mightn’t successfully make her startled state pass as the mere glow of pleasure her natural greeting to her acquisition. She was pathetically, yet at the same time almost comically, divided. Her line was so to cover her tracks that every avowal of a past connection was a danger; but it also concerned her safety to learn, in the light of our astounding coincidence, how far she already stood exposed. She meanwhile begged the question. She smiled through her tears. ‘He’s too magnificent!’

The Beldonald Holbein

‘But has she any idea herself, poor thing?’ was the way I had put it to Mrs. Munden on our next meeting after the incident at my studio; with the effect, however, only of leaving my friend at first to take me as alluding to Mrs. Brash’s possible prevision of the chatter she might create. I had my own sense of that this provision had been nil; the question was of her consciousness of the office for which Lady Beldonald had counted on her.

The Beast in the Jungle

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The Marriages

When she knocked at his door late in the evening he was regularly not in his room. It was known in the house how much he was worried; he was horribly nervous about his ordeal. It was to begin on the 23rd of June, and his father was as worried as himself. The wedding had been arranged in relation to this…
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The Jolly Corner

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The Bench of Desolation

On a certain October Saturday he had got off as usual, early; but the afternoon light, his pilgrimage drawing to its aim, could still show him, at long range, the rare case of an established usurper. His impulse was then, as by custom, to deviate a little and wait, all the more that the occupant of the bench was a lady, and that ladies, when alone, were at that austere end of the varied frontal stretch markedly discontinuous; but he kept on at sight of this person’s rising, while he was still fifty yards off, and proceeding.

Crapy Cornelia

However that might be, his curiosity was occupied rather with the conceivable hinge of poor Cornelia’s: it was perhaps thinkable that even Mrs Worthingham’s New York, once it should have become possible again at all, might have put forth to this lone exile a plea that wouldn’t be in the chords of Bognor.

The Velvet Glove

That was knowing Paris, of a wondrous bland April night; that was hanging over it from vague consecrated lamp studded heights and taking in, spread below and afar, the great scroll of all its irresistible story, pricked out, across river and bridge and radiant place, and along quays and boulevards and avenues, and around monumental circles and squares, in syllables of fire, and sketched and summarized, further and further, in the dim fire dust of endless avenues; that was all of the essence of fond and thrilled and throbbing recognition, with a thousand things understood and a flood of response conveyed, a whole familiar possessive feeling appealed to and attested.

Selected Tales

Throughout his writing life, Henry James was drawn to the short story form for the freedom it offered him and he made the genre his own. This new selection comprises both brief tales and longer works that explore James’s concerns with the old world and the new, and with money, fame, class, and art. ‘Daisy Miller,’ ‘The Lesson of the Master,’ ‘The Real Thing,’ ‘The Figure in the Carpet,’ ‘In the Cage,’ ‘The Beast in the Jungle,’ and ‘The Jolly Corner’ are included here, along with twelve others. Haunting, witty, and beautifully drawn, these stories are as rich and resonant as James’s novels.

Edited with an introduction by John Lyon.

Complete Stories, 1864–1874

For the first time in 30 years, the Master’s complete stories are again available in a handsome, authoritative collector’s editionWith this fifth and final volume of The Library of America’s historic new edition, Henry James’s world famous stories are again available in their entirety. Complete Stories 1864 1874 brings together his first 24 published stories, 13 never collected by James. Here are the first explorations of some of James’s most significant themes: the force of social convention and the compromises it demands; the complex and often ambiguous encounter between Europe and America; the energies of human passion measured against the rigors of artistic discipline. Encompassing a wide range of subjects, settings, and formal techniques, these stories show the young James exploring contemporary events, as in three stories that treat the effects of the Civil War on civilians, and exhibiting his famous psychological acuity, as in ‘Guest’s Confession,’ where the ferociously comic portrayal of an arrogant businessman hints at the narcissism and sadism that motivate him. Early examples of James’s lifelong fascination with art and artists include ‘A Landscape Painter,’ which explores a young painter’s distorted attraction to a family living in a desolate coastal town, and ‘The Madonna of the Future,’ where an aging artist avoids the inevitable unveiling of his ‘masterpiece.’ Adumbrating later triumphs, and compelling in their own right, the stories in this volume reveal an accomplished young talent mastering the art of the short story.

Ghost Stories of Henry James

About this book: Henry James was arguably the greatest practitioner of what has been called the psychological ghost story. His stories explore the region which lies between the supernatural or straightforwardly marvellous and the darker areas of the human psyche. This edition includes all ten of his ‘appacitional’ stories, or ghost stories in the strict sense of the term, and as such is the fullest collection currently available. The stories range widely in tone and type. They include ‘The Jolly Corner’, a compelling story of psychological doubling; ‘Owen Wingrave’, which is also a subtle parable of military tradition; ‘The Friends of the Friends’, a strange story of uncanny love; and ‘The Private Life’, which finds high comedy in its ghostly theme. The volume also includes James’s great novella ‘The Turn of the Screw’, perhaps the most ambiguous and disturbing ghost story ever written.

Complete Stories, 1892–1898

A handsome, authoritative edition of twenty one classic stories from James’s latest and greatest period includes ‘The Turn of the Screw,’ ‘The Figure in the Carpet,’ and ‘The Altar of the Dead.’

The Finer Grain

HE thought he had already, poor John Berridge, tasted in their fulness the sweets of success; but nothing yet had been more charming to him than when the young Lord, as he irresistibly and, for greater certitude, quite correctly figured him, fairly sought out, in Paris, the new literary star that had begun to hang, with a fresh red light, over the vast, even though rather confused, Anglo Saxon horizon; positively approaching that celebrity with a shy and artless appeal. The young Lord invoked on this occasion the celebrity’s prized judgment of a special literary case; and Berridge could take the whole manner of it for one of the ‘quaintest’ little acts displayed to his amused eyes, up to now, on the stage of European society albeit these eyes were quite aware, in general, of missing everywhere no more of the human scene than possible, and of having of late been particularly awake to the large extensions of it spread before him since so he could but fondly read his fate under the omen of his prodigious ‘hit.’

Complete Stories, 1898–1910

An expertly edited, fine edition of James’s stories from the end of his career collects thirty one tales, including the fantasies ‘The Great Good Place’ and ‘The Jolly Corner,’ along with ‘The Beast in the Jungle.’

Pyramus and Thisbe

Stephen . I confess there is some virtue in it. To give a young lady a bouquet of your own making, or your own buying, is assuredly it’s own reward. But to serve as a mere bald go between; to present a bunch of lilies and roses on the part of another a mysterious unknown to act, as it were, as the senseless clod of earth in which they’re wrapped for transportation, and not as their thrilling, teeming, conscious parent soil, this, Miss West, I assure you, is to make a terrible sacrifice to vanity.

A Small Boy and Others

In A Small Boy and Others, Michael Moon makes a vital contributon to our understanding of the dynamics of sexuality and identity in modern American culture. He explores a wide array of literary, artistic, and theatrical performances ranging from the memoirs of Henry James and the dances of Vaslav Nijinsky to the Pop paintings of Andy Warhol and such films as Midnight Cowboy, Blue Velvet, and Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures. Moon illuminates the careers of James, Warhol, and others by examining the imaginative investments of their protogay childhoods in their work in ways that enable new, more complex cultural readings. He deftly engages notions of initiation and desire not within the traditional framework of sexual orientation but through the disorienting effects of imitation. Whether invoking the artist Joseph Cornell s early fascination with the Great Houdini or turning his attention to James s self described initiation into style at the age of twelve when he first encountered the homoerotic imagery in paintings by David, G ricault, and Girodet Moon reveals how the works of these artists emerge from an engagement that is obsessive to the point of queerness. Rich in historical detail and insistent in its melding of the recent with the remote, the literary with the visual, the popular with the elite, A Small Boy and Others presents a hitherto unimagined tradition of brave and outrageous queer invention. This long awaited contribution from Moon will be welcomed by all those engaged in literary, cultural, and queer studies.

The Middle Years

Doctor Hugh, at this, hesitated, and Dencombe, in spite of a desire to pass for unconscious, risked a covert glance at him. What his eyes met this time, as happened, was, on the part of the young lady, a queer stare, naturally vitreous, which made her remind him of some figure he couldn’t name it in a play or a novel, some sinister governess or tragic old maid. She seemed to scan him, to challenge him, to say out of general spite: ‘What have you got to do with us?’

The Novels of George Eliot

”But the partic’larest thing of all,’ pursues Mr. Macey, ‘is, as nobody took any notice on it but me, and they answered straight off ‘Yes,’ like as if it had been me saying ‘Amen’ i’ the right place, without listening to what went before.’

The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1855–1872: Volume 1

The Complete Letters of Henry James fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English language. Comprising more than ten thousand letters reflecting on a remarkably wide range of topics from James’s own life and literary projects to broader questions on art, literature, and criticism this edition will be an indispensable resource for students of James and of American and English literature, culture, and criticism. It will also be essential for research libraries throughout North America and Europe and for scholars who specialize in James, the European novel, and modern literature. Pierre A. Walker and Greg W. Zacharias have conceived this edition according to the exacting standards of the Committee on Scholarly Editions. The first in the series, this two volume work includes the letters from James’s first extant one to those from 1869 in volume one and the letters from 1869 to 1872 in volume two. 20070203

Parisian Sketches: Letters to the New York Tribune, 1875-1876

A collection of Henry James’ Paris letters to the Tribune.

The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872–1876: Volume 2

The Complete Letters of Henry James fills a crucial gap in modern literary studies by presenting in a scholarly edition the complete letters of one of the great novelists and letter writers of the English language. Comprising more than ten thousand letters reflecting on a remarkably wide range of topics from James’s own life and literary projects to broader questions about art, literature, and criticism this edition is an indispensable resource for students of James and of American and English literature, culture, and criticism as well as for research libraries throughout North America and Europe and for scholars of James, the European novel, and modern literature. Pierre A. Walker and Greg W. Zacharias have conceived this edition according to the exacting standards of the Committee on Scholarly Editions. This volume is the second of three to include James s letters from 1872 to 1876. 20100701

Hawthorne

‘The first extended study ever made of an American writer. It still remains one of the best.’ Edmund Wilson Originally published in 1879, Henry James’s Hawthorne has been out of print for many years. Cornell University Press is proud to make this American classic available again in a new paperback edition.

In this critique of one literary genius by another, James not only considers Hawthorne as a man and a writer, for whom he has a tender, if critical, regard, but he uses his subject as a vantage point from which to present his views on American culture. With his customary urbanity, James as*sesses the place of the writer in nineteenth century America, and touches upon the antithetical values of the Old World and the New.

Hawthorne‘s preoccupation with evil and guilt, his portentous imagination, and his otherworldliness are brought out in the critique of his works, together with James’s keen appreciation of Hawthorne‘s remarkable gifts.

French Poets and Novelists

1883. American born writer, gifted with talents in literature, psychology, and philosophy. James wrote 20 novels, 112 stories, 12 plays and works of literary criticism. Among James’s most famous literary works are The Europeans, his commercial success Daisy Miller, the critically acclaimed Washington Square, The Bostonians, and The Turn of the Screw. A collection of James’s essays containing: Alfred de Musset; Theophile Gautier; Charles Baudelaire; Honore de Balzac; Balzac’s Letters; George Sand; Charles de Bernard and Gustave Flaubert; Ivan Turgenieff; The Two Amperes; Madame de Sabran; Merimee’s Letters; and The Theatre Francais. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

The Letters of Henry James, Volume II

In this, the second volume of Leon Edel’s superb edition of the letters, we see Henry James in his thirties, pursuing his writing in Paris and London and finding his first literary successes in Daisy Miller and The Portrait of a Lady. The letters of these years, describing for family and friends in Boston the expatriate’s days, reveal the usual wit and sophistication, but there is a new tone: James is relentlessly building a personal career and begins to see himself as a professional writer. Few other letters so fully document the process of an artist in the making. James was a social success in London: in Mr. Edel’s words, ‘England speedily opened its arms to him, as it does to anyone who is at ease with the world.’ The letters of this period pull us into the atmosphere of Victorian England, its drawing rooms, manors, and clubs, and James’s keen American eyes give us views of this world probably unique in our literary annals. He used these observations to forge his great international theme, the confrontation of the Old and New Worlds.

A Little Tour in France

I am ashamed to begin with saying that Touraine is the garden of France; that remark has long ago lost its bloom. The town of Tours, however, has some thing sweet and bright, which suggests that it is surrounded by a land of fruits. It is a very agreeable little city; few towns of its size are more ripe, more complete, or, I should suppose, in better humor with themselves and less disposed to envy the responsibilities of bigger places. It is truly the capital of its smiling province; a region of easy abundance, of good living, of genial, comfortable, optimistic, rather indolent opinions. Balzac says in one of his tales that the real Tourangeau will not make an effort, or displace him self even, to go in search of a pleasure; and it is not difficult to understand the sources of this amiable cynicism. He must have a vague conviction that he can only lose by almost any change. Fortune has been kind to him: he lives in a temperate, reasonable, sociable climate, on the banks, of a river which, it is true, sometimes floods the country around it, but of which the ravages appear to be so easily repaired that its aggressions may perhaps be regarded in a region where so many good things are certain merely as an occasion for healthy suspense.

Terminations

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE MIDDLE YEARS The April day was soft and bright, and poor Dencombe, happy in the conceit of reasserted strength, stood in the garden of the hotel, comparing, with a deliberation in which, however, there was still something of languor, the attractions of easy strolls. He liked the feeling of the south, so far as you could have it in the north, he liked the sandy cliffs and the clustered pines, he liked even the colorless sea. ‘ Bournemouth as a health resort ‘ had sounded like a mere advertiseme*nt, but now he was reconciled to the prosaic. The sociable country postman, passing through the garden, had just given him a small parcel, which he took out with him, leaving the hotel to the right and creeping to a convenient bench that he knew of, a safe recess in the cliff. It looked to the south, to the tinted walls of the Island, and was protected behind by the sloping shoulder of the down. He was tired enough when he reached it, and for a moment he was disappointed ; he was better, of course, but better, after all, than what ? He should never again, as at one or two great moments of the past, be better than himself. The infinite of life had gone, and what was left of the dose was a small glass engraved like a thermometer by the apothecary. He sat and stared at the sea, which appeared all surface and twinkle, far shallower than the spirit of man. It was the abyss of human illusion that was the real, the tideless deep. He held his packet, which had come by book post, unopened on his knee, liking, in the lapse of so many joys his illness had made him feel his age, to know that it was there, but taking for granted there could be no complete renewal of the pleasure, dear to young experience, of seeing one’s self ‘ just out.’ Den combe, who had a reputation, had come out too often a…

The Painter’s Eye

Between 1868 and 1897 Henry James wrote a number of short essays and reviews of artists and art collections; these essays were published in magazines such as ‘Atlantic Monthly’ and ‘Harper’s Weekly’ and in newspapers such as the ‘New York Tribune’. They included James’ comments on Ruskin, Turner, Whistler, Sargent, and the Impressionists, among many others. Thirty of these essays were collected and first published in a modern edition in 1956, accompanied by John Sweeney’s introduction which sketched James’ interests in the visual arts over a period of years, focusing on the ways in which painting and painters entered his work as subjects. Susan Griffin’s new foreword places James’ observations in a contemporary context. Some of the novelist’s judgements will seem wrong to today’s readers: he was very critical of the Impressionists, for example, but all of these essays bear the stamp of James’ critical intelligence, and they tell us a great deal about his development as a writer during those years.

English Hours

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Traveling in Italy with Henry James

In a geographically arranged collection of travel essays and letters, the author of The Portrait of a Lady expresses his response to Italy’s dramatic geography and extroverted people as they contrast with his own staid Victorian experiences.

Italian Hours

It is a great pleasure to write the word; but I am not sure there is not a certain impudence in pretending to add anything to it. Venice has been painted and described many thousands of times, and of all the cities of the world is the easiest to visit without going there. Open the first book and you will find a rhapsody about it; step into the first picture dealer’s and you will find three or four high coloured ‘views’ of it. There is notoriously nothing more to be said on the subject. Every one has been there, and every one has brought back a collection of photographs. There is as little mystery about the Grand Canal as about our local thorough fare, and the name of St. Mark is as familiar as the postman’s ring. It is not forbidden, however, to speak of familiar things, and I hold that for the true Venice lover Venice is always in order. There is nothing new to be said about her certainly, but the old is better than any novelty. It would be a sad day indeed when there should be something new to say. I write these lines with the full consciousness of having no infor mation whatever to offer. I do not pretend to enlighten the reader; I pretend only to give a fillip to his memory; and I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner

Surrounded by artists, writers, and musicians who constituted her court in Boston as in Venice, Isabella Stewart Gardner, a passionate art collector with enormous funds, was as revered and sought after as royalty. Henry James had a real affection for her, and was inspired by the rich and powerful Mrs. Gardner and her magnificent pearls, as well as by the Palazzo Barbaro in Venice, for his novel The Wings of the Dove. Mrs. Gardner was to recreate a larger than life version of Palazzo Barbaro in Boston, which is now the Isabella Gardner Museum. These letters also add another dimension to what we know of Henry James’s long relationship with Venice and the Palazzo Barbaro.

Notes on Novelists with Some Other Notes by Henry James

1914. American born writer, gifted with talents in literature, psychology, and philosophy. James wrote 20 novels, 112 stories, 12 plays and works of literary criticism. Among James’s most famous literary works are The Europeans, his commercial success Daisy Miller, the critically acclaimed Washington Square, The Bostonians, and The Turn of the Screw. Notes on Novelists is one of his volumes of criticism. Contents: Robert Louis Stevenson; Emile Zola; Gustave Flaubert; Honore de Balzac; George Sand; Gabriele D’Annunzio; Matilde Serao; The New Novel; Dumas the Younger; The Novel in The Ring and the Book; An American Art Scholar: Charles Eliot Norton, 1908; and London Notes. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

Henry James on Culture

The eighteen essays in this collection show Henry James 1843 1916 in a new and unexpected light as a political commentator and social reformer. His acute powers of observation, his unerring feel for social nuance, and his abiding interest in the news, conversations, and controversies of the moment make these essays a witty and entertaining illumination of American, British, European, and colonial society in the years from 1878 to 1917. Included are writings on British politics and diplomacy, on the language and manners of Americans, on the possibility of an afterlife, and on the heroism and human costs of the First World War. Among the subjects that interest James are France’s infatuation with the Prince of Wales, the trumped up excuses for war in Afghanistan, the brutal frankness of Bismarck, the parliamentary games of Gladstone and Disraeli, the rise of Zulu power in South Africa, the use of yeah and yup for the American affirmative, the fearlessness of American women and their immunity from criticism, the effect of chewing gum on the discussion of opera, the sufferings of Americans at the hands of store clerks, the proper degrees of gratitude for roadside bicycle repairs, the work of the American Volunteer Motor Ambulance Corps, the use of the dash, the tyranny of the newspapers, the sinking of the Lusitania, and the conditions in military hospitals.

Letters to A.C. Benson and Auguste Monod

The collection will be welcome to lovers of the great stylist as a fresh example of his more intimate manner and as further evidence of his love of friends almost perfectly balanced with devotion to art. BOOKSTHIS TITLE IS CITED AND RECOMMENDED BY: Books for College Libraries; Bibliography of American Literature.

William and Henry James: Selected Letters

This collection of 216 letters offers an accessible, single volume distillation of the exchange spanning 50 years between celebrated brothers William and Henry James. Their correspondence demonstrates the persons, places, and events that effected the Euro American world from 1861 1910.

Collected Travel Writings

Sixteen delightful travel essays, collected for the first time, feature James’s impressions and opinions of Great Britain, his adopted home, and America, as he revisits his homeland after a twenty year absence.

The American Scene

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The Whole Family

Also Authored By Mary Stewart Doubleday Cutting, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Henry James, John Kendrick Bangs, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Edith Wyatt, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, Alice Brown, And Henry Van Dyke.

50 Great Short Stories

50 Great Short Stories is a comprehensive selection from the world’s finest short fiction. The authors represented range from Hawthorne, Maupassant, and Poe, through Henry James, Conrad, Aldous Huxley, and James Joyce, to Hemingway, Katherine Anne Porter, Faulkner, E.B. White, Saroyan, and O Connor. The variety in style and subject is enormous, but all these stories have one point in common the enduring quality of the writing, which places them among the masterpieces of the world s fiction.

Magical Realist Fiction

This capacious 520 pages anthology has selections from the authors you would expect to find, from others you may be less familiar with, and from writers you might not expect to show up in this company. The result is a treasure trove of unusual fiction spanning authors from Gogol and Kafka through Woolf and Nabokov to Calvino, Garcia Marquez, and Barthelme one of the most exciting anthologies to appear in the last decade. This is a poet’s companion, a student’s delight, great bedside reading: the kind of book you’d take to a desert island!

The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

‘How ironic,’ Joyce Carol Oates writes in her introduction to this marvelous collection, ‘that in our age of rapid mass-production and the easy proliferation of consumer products, the richness and diversity of the American literary imagination should be so misrepresented in most anthologies.’ Why, she asks, when writers such as Samuel Clemens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor, Saul Bellow, and John Updike have among them written hundreds of short stories, do anthologists settle on the same two or three titles by each author again and again? ‘Isn’t the implicit promise of an anthology that it will, or aspires to, present something different, unexpected?’

In The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, Joyce Carol Oates offers a sweeping survey of American short fiction, in a collection of fifty-six tales that combines classic works with many ‘different, unexpected’ gems, and that invites readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Some selections simply can’t be improved on, Oates admits, and she happily includes such time-honored works as Irving’s ‘Rip Van Winkle,’ Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart,’ and Hemingway’s ‘A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.’ But alongside these classics, Oates introduces such little-known stories as Mark Twain’s ‘Cannibalism in the Cars,’ a story that reveals a darker side to his humor ‘That morning we had Morgan of Alabama for breakfast. He was one of the finest men I ever sat down to…
a perfect gentleman, and singularly juicy’. From Melville come the juxtaposed tales ‘The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids,’ of which Oates says, ‘Only Melville could have fashioned out of ‘real’ events…
such harrowing and dreamlike allegorical fiction.’ From Flannery O’Connor we find ‘A Late Encounter With the Enemy,’ and from John Cheever, ‘The Death of Justina,’ one of Cheever’s own favorites, though rarely anthologized. The reader will also delight in the range of authors found here, from Charles W. Chesnutt, Jean Toomer, and Sarah Orne Jewett, to William Carlos Williams, Kate Chopin, and Zora Neale Hurston. Contemporary artists abound, including Bharati Mukherjee and Amy Tan, Alice Adams and David Leavitt, Bobbie Ann Mason and Tim O’Brien, Louise Erdrich and John Edgar Wideman. Oates provides fascinating introductions to each writer, blending biographical information with her own trenchant observations about their work, plus a long introductory essay, in which she offers the fruit of years of reflection on a genre in which she herself is a master.

This then is a book of surprises, a fascinating portrait of American short fiction, as filtered through the sensibility of a major modern writer.

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