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Henry James

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Henry James. Collected Travel Writings: Great Britain and America
	Edited by: Richard Howard Library of America ISBN: 0-940450-76-3 Series Number: 64 Product Code: 200644; 846 pages Price: $35.00
Volume 1: Great Britain and America: English Hours, The American Scene, Other Travels. Observant, imaginative, rich with literary allusions and historical echoes, James's travel writings are both literary masterpieces and unsurpassed guidebooks. This volume and its companion, The Continent, present them complete for the first time. English Hours evokes the varied life of James's adopted home, from the "murky, modern Babylon" of London to the hauntingly desolate Suffolk coast. Joseph Pennell's delightful illustrations are reproduced from the original 1905 edition. In The American Scene, James marvels at the grand American hotel, the privileges of American children, and a modern commercial New York City radically changed since his childhood. Sixteen essays, most previously uncollected, range from early pieces on Saratoga and Newport to articles on World War I that are among his final writings. "Unmatched in travel literatureýan incomparable record able to stand with his great novels." —Elizabeth Hardwick.

Henry James. Collected Travel Writings: The Continent
	Edited by: Richard Howard Library of America ISBN: 0-940450-77-1 Series Number: 65 Product Code: 200651; 845 pages Price: $37.50
Volume 2: The Continent: A Little Tour in France, Italian Hours, Other Travels. From Provence and the Loire Valley, to Rome and Capri, Tuscany and Umbria, James visits all the places still on the traveler's itinerary, capturing radiant impressions of the French countryside, the Norman coast, Florentine masterpieces, and Venetian color and light. Also included are sixteen essays, most previously uncollected, on such varied places as Switzerland, Belgium, and the Pyrenees. Joseph Pennell's exquisite drawings are reproduced from the original editions. This volume and its companion, Great Britain and America, present James's travel writings complete for the first time.

Henry James. Complete Stories 1864-1874
	Edited by: Jean Strouse Library of America ISBN: 1-883011-70-1 Series Number: 111 Product Code: 201154 Price: $40.00
With 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. Encompassing a wide range of subjects, settings, and formal techniques, they show the young James equally at ease writing historical tales, such as "Gabrielle de Bergerac," a story of defiant love set in pre-Revolutionary France, or exploring contemporary events, as in three stories that treat the effects of the Civil War on civilians. James very early exhibited his famous psychological acuity, as in "Master Eustace," a study of a spoiled child and his emotional ruthlessness, and "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 "simple" family living in a desolate coastal town, and "The Madonna of the Future," where an aging artist avoids the unveiling of his masterpiece, prompting an unexpected revelation. Also 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. Adumbrating later triumphs, and compelling in their own right, the stories in this volume reveal a remarkably accomplished and cosmopolitan young talent mastering the art of the short story.

Henry James. Complete Stories 1874-1884

Edited by: William Vance
Library of America
ISBN: 1-883011-63-9
Series Number: 106
Product Code: 201097
Price: $35.00

In more than one hundred stories, Henry James displayed the unwavering intensity of his aesthetic vision--and did so with an astonishing abundance of invention. Now The Library of America is making this body of writing available in its entirety in a new, authoritative edition of James's stories, complete in five volumes.

In the years when he achieved his greatest success as a novelist, Henry James was also contributing stories prolifically to popular magazines. Adventurous in narrative technique, yet marked by precise observation rendered in quicksilver prose, the stories of James's middle period present a breathtaking array of memorable characters and beguiling scenarios.

The nineteen stories in Complete Stories 1874-1884 show James working out, in a more concise fictional laboratory, themes that appear in such novels of the period as The Portrait of a Lady and The Bostonians. They include some of his most famous explorations of the international theme: "Daisy Miller," the unforgettable portrayal of an innocent, headstrong American girl at odds with European mores, "An International Episode" and "Lady Barberina," satirically probing tales of English aristocrats and the American marriage market, and "The Siege of London," in which an American widow strives to work her way into English society. Over half the stories are available in no other edition Companion volumes cover the years from 1864-1874, 1884-1891, 1892-1898, and 1898-1910.

Henry James. Complete Stories 1884-1891
	Edited by: Edward Said Library of America ISBN: 1-883011-64-7 Series Number: 107 Product Code: 201105 Price: $35.00
Sometimes overshadowed by his work as a novelist, James's short fiction is an astonishing achievement, a triumph of inventiveness and restless curiosity. Now The Library of America is making this body of writing available in its entirety in a new, authoritative edition of James's stories, complete in five volumes. The seventeen stories collected in Complete Stories: 1884-1891 include some of the writer's greatest masterpieces. "The Aspern Papers" is a stunning novella about emotional ruthlessness in the service of literary scholarship. "The Pupil" is a dense, suggestive account of the moral perplexities in the relationship between an impoverished tutor and a young invalid. "The Lesson of the Master" is an intricate study of ambition, disappointment, and the demands of a life devoted to art. "Brooksmith" is a moving portrait of a house servant, and "Sir Edmund Orme" an enthralling ghost story. Throughout, James wittily limns the demands and hidden struggles of social life, and hones his genius for the unexpected resolution and brilliantly framed portrait. More than half the stories are available in no other edition. Companion volumes cover the years from 1864-1874, 1874-1884, 1892-1898, and 1898-1910. Complete Stories 1884-1891 is edited by Edward Said, University Professor in the department of English at Columbia University and the author of many books, including Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism, and The World, The Text and the Critic.

Henry James. Complete Stories 1892-1898
	Edited by: John Hollander, David Bromwich and Denis Donoghue Library of America ISBN: 1-883011-09-4 Series Number: 82 Product Code: 200826; 948 Pages Price: $35.00
Including tales of terror and the supernatural, humor, and surprising twists, Henry James's world-famous short stories are his most popular works. Now, for the first time in thirty years, his stories are again available in an authoritative collector's edition, to be published in five volumes. The 21 stories included here represent James at the peak of his storytelling powers and include many of his greatest masterpieces. Among them are "The Turn of the Screw," a terrifying exercise in psychological horror; "The Real Thing," a playful consideration of the illusions of art and the paradoxes of authenticity; "The Altar of the Dead," a wrenching meditation on the relation of the living to the dead; and "The Figure in the Carpet," " The Death of the Lion," and "The Middle Years," three very different expositions of the mysteries of authorship which embody James's most profound insights into the nature of his own art. A companion volume covers the years 1898-1910.

Henry James. Complete Stories 1898-1910
	Edited by: John Hollander, David Bromwich and Denis Donoghue Library of America ISBN: 1-883011-10-8 Series Number: 83 Product Code: 200834; 946 pages Price: $35.00
Now for the first time in thirty years, the world-famous short stories of Henry James are again available in a handsome and authoritative collector's edition, to be published in five volumes. The 31 stories gathered in this volume are the culmination of James's glorious final period. Among them are the extraordinary fantasies "The Great Good Place" and "The Jolly Corner," where haunting hints of the supernatural express undercurrents of yearning and dislocation; "Crapy Cornelia," whose theme of the compelling power of nostalgic memory owes much to James's 1904 return visit to New York City; "The Birthplace," a comic tale about the commercialization of genius; and the masterful "The Beast in the Jungle," a harrowing account of a man's confrontation with lost opportunities. A companion volume covers the years 1892-1898.

Henry James. Literary Criticism: Volume One: Essays on Literature, American Writers & English Writers
	Edited by: Leon Edel and Mark Wilson Library of America ISBN: 0-940450-22-4 Series Number: 22 Product Code: 200222; 1484 pages Price: $45.00
Henry James, renowned as one of the world's great novelists, was also one of the most illuminating, audacious, and masterly critics of modern times. This volume and its companion offer the only comprehensive collection of his critical writings ever assembled, more than one third never before collected in book form. This first volume focuses on his responses to American and English writers. Gathered here are his most important theoretical essays such as "The Art of Fiction" and "The Future of the Novel." Also included are discussions of American writers like Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Harriet Beecher Stowe as well as penetrating assessments of British writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and many more. "Should help to establish James not only as our greatest novelist but also our most comprehensive and original critic. A major publishing event."—Leo Bersani, Atlantic Monthly

Henry James. Literary Criticism: Volume Two: French Writers, Other European Writers, The Prefaces to the New York Edition
	Edited by: Leon Edel and Mark Wilson Library of America ISBN: 0-940450-23-2 Series Number: 23 Product Code: 200230; 1408 pages Price: $`45.00
Vol.2: European Writers and Prefaces to the New York Edition. A member of intellectual circles on each continent, Henry James became for American readers the foremost interpreter of the literary and cultural life of Europe. This is the second volume of the most extensive collection of his critical writings ever assembled, with many pieces never before available in book form. It includes reviews of a great number of European writers, especially French writers, along with more general essays and the Prefaces James wrote for the New York Edition of his works, published in 1907-1909. James reviews such writers as Honorý de Balzac, Gustave Flaubert, Ivan Turgenev, George Sand, and more. The collected Prefaces to the New York Edition of his works are one of literature's most revealing artistic autobiographies. "Few talents have ever combined a critical intelligence of this order with such luminous prose." —Boston Globe

Henry James. Novels 1871-1880
	Edited by: William T. Stafford Library of America ISBN: 0-940450-13-5 Series Number: 13 Product Code: 200131; 1287 pages Price: $40.00
The first volume in what will eventually be a complete James presents five early novels filled with sparkling dialogue, masterfully timed suspense, and the romance of youthful and artistic aspiration: Watch and Ward, Roderick Hudson, The American, The Europeans, and Confidence. They appear in their original early versions, without the revisions James added in his later years, revealing his true early style-both in its occasional naývetý and its remarkable sharpness of observation.

Henry James. Novels 1881-1886
	Edited by: William T. Stafford Library of America ISBN: 0-940450-30-5 Series Number: 29 Product Code: 200297 Price: $40.00
Three major novels from James's early middle years: Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, and The Bostonians. These studies in the exercise of power between the sexes, classes, and cultures portray American women confronting crises of independence and possession. "James beginning to realize the height of his powers."—Wall Street Journal

Henry James. Novels 1886-1890
	Edited by: Daniel Mark Fogel Library of America ISBN: 0-940450-56-9 Series Number: 43 Product Code: 200453; 1296 pages Price: $40.00
The Princess Casamassima, The Reverberator, and The Tragic Muse. These novels explore a late-19th-century world rapidly coming to resemble our own. The Princess Casamassima unfolds in a menacing realm of an assassination plot, wrenching jealousy, and tragic betrayal. The Reverberator, named for a newspaper that caters to Americans' appetite for "society news," is a swiftly paced comic novel. The Tragic Muse studies "the histrionic character" and the sacrifices demanded by a life dedicated to art. "Reminds us of how James can surprise us by speaking directly to our present concerns."—Chicago Tribune

Henry James. Novels 1896-1899

Edited by: Myra Jehlen
Library of America
ISBN: 1931082-30-8
Product Code: 201469
Price: $40.00

This volume collects four novels written by Henry James in the period immediately following his unsuccessful five-year-long attempt to establish himself as a playwright on the London stage. Hoping to convert his "infinite little loss" into "infinite little gain," James returned to the novelistic examination of English society with a new appreciation for what he called the "divine principle of the Scenario," "a key that, working in the same general way fits the complicated chambers of both the dramatic and the narrative lock."

His continued interest in dramatic form is demonstrated in The Other House (1896), which was derived from the scenario for a three-act play. Set in two neighboring houses and told mostly through dialogue, the novel explores the violent and tragic consequences of jealousy and frustrated passion. In The Spoils of Poynton (1897), one of the most tightly constructed of James's late novels, a house and its exquisite antique furnishings and artwork become the source of a protracted struggle involving the proud and imperious Mrs. Gereth, her amiable son, Owen, his philistine fiancýe, Mona Brigstock, and the sensitive Fleda Vetch, whose moral judgment is tested by her conflicting allegiances.

What Maisie Knew (1897) explores with perception and sensitivity the effect upon a young girl of her parents' bitter divorce and their subsequent remarriages. In writing the novel James chose as his point of view what he described as "the consciousness, the dim, sweet, scared, wondering, clinging perception of the child." The Awkward Age (1899) examines the complicated relations among the members of a sophisticated London social circle almost entirely through dialogue as it depicts the shifting marital prospects of a young woman poised on the verge of adult life. Both of these novels insightfully explore the ambiguity of childhood "innocence" amid adult struggles over money, power, and love.

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