The Aspern Papers and Other Tales, 1884–1888
The Aspern Papers and Other Tales, 1884–1888

Author: Henry James

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-04-07

Total Pages: 900

ISBN-13: 1009072285

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The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. The nine tales in this volume, published between 1884 and 1888, include 'The Aspern Papers', set in Venice and featuring a devious scholar attempting to steal the letters of an American poet from his former lover, and 'The Liar,' on the world of painters and their models. These tales exemplify James's continuing interest in the art of short fiction during a period which saw him responding to the stimulations of French naturalism and successfully reworking the international theme that had made him famous at the end of the 1870s. Extensive explanatory notes enable modern readers to understand the tales' historical, cultural and literary references.

The Aspern Papers and Other Tales, 1884-1888
The Aspern Papers and Other Tales, 1884-1888

Author: Henry James

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-10

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781139342438

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A scholarly edition of the short fiction of Henry James, comprising nine tales including 'The Aspern Papers' and 'The Liar'.

The Aspern Papers and Other Tales
The Aspern Papers and Other Tales

Author: Henry James

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2014-06-26

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 014138980X

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A wonderful new collection of Henry James's short stories about the relationship between art and life, edited by Michael Gorra. This volume gathers seven of the very best of Henry James's short stories, all exploring the relationship between art and life. In 'The Aspern Papers', a critic is determined to get his hands on a great poet's papers hidden in a faded Venetian house - not matter what the human cost. 'The Author of Beltraffio', 'The Lesson of the Master' and 'The Figure in the Carpet' all focus on naive young men's unsettling encounters with their literary heroes. In 'The Middle Years', a dying novelist begins to glimpse his own potential, while 'The Real Thing' and 'Greville Fane' both explore the tension between artistic and commercial success. These fables of the creative life reveal James at his ironic, provocative best. Henry James was born in 1843 in New York and died in London in 1916. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875). They include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl. Michael Gorra is Professor of English at Smith College and the author of Portrait of a Novel: Henry James and the Making of an American Masterpiece (2012), a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in biography.

The Jolly Corner and Other Tales, 1903–1910
The Jolly Corner and Other Tales, 1903–1910

Author: Henry James

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-09-21

Total Pages: 692

ISBN-13: 1108299881

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The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. The Jolly Corner and Other Tales, 1903–1910 includes the final ten stories James wrote. Many involve satirical critiques of an increasingly narcissistic, acquisitive society - from 'The Papers', with its attack on celebrity culture, to 'The Birthplace', offering a sardonic view of the Shakespeare industry, and 'A Round of Visits', which conducts a horrified tour through selfishness and swindling in early twentieth-century New York. The title story itself was in James's own view 'a miraculous masterpiece in the line of the fantastic-gruesome, the supernatural-thrilling ... the best thing of this sort I've ever done'. With its extensive textual history and wide-ranging notes, this volume will interest not only James scholars, but all students of early twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and culture.

Washington Square
Washington Square

Author: Henry James

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2022-09-08

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1009072277

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The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. Published in two volumes in 1880, Washington Square dramatises the plight of Catherine Sloper, a rich heiress, whose father, a successful doctor, identifies her one suitor, Morris Townsend, as a fortune-hunter. The novel thus draws on the sentimental tradition, which it develops with subtle, sympathetic irony, in a realist direction. This edition is the first to provide a full account of the context in which the book was composed and received, and to include the original illustrations by Punch-cartoonist George Du Maurier. Extensive explanatory notes enable modern readers to understand its nuanced historical, cultural and literary references, and its complex textual history.

The Prefaces
The Prefaces

Author: Henry James

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2024-03-28

Total Pages: 832

ISBN-13: 1009488341

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This is the first scholarly edition of an important group of critical writings by Henry James, the Prefaces to his New York Edition (1907–9). It will be of value to James scholars and to scholars and advanced students of 19th- and 20th-century British and American literature and book history.

The Princess Casamassima
The Princess Casamassima

Author: Henry James

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-03-19

Total Pages: 966

ISBN-13: 1108857051

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The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. Published in three volumes in 1886, The Princess Casamassima follows Hyacinth Robinson, a young London craftsman who carries the stigma of his illegitimate birth, and his French mother's murder of his patrician English father. Deeply impressed by the poverty around him, he is driven to association with political dissidents and anarchists including the charismatic Princess Casamassima - who embodies the problems of personal and political loyalty by which Hyacinth is progressively torn apart. This edition is the first to provide a full account of the context in which the book was composed and received. Extensive explanatory notes enable modern readers to understand its nuanced historical, cultural and literary references, and its complex textual history.

The Aspern Papers, The Real Thing and Other Tales & The Ambassadors
The Aspern Papers, The Real Thing and Other Tales & The Ambassadors

Author: Henry James

Publisher:

Published: 2020-12

Total Pages: 756

ISBN-13: 9781662726033

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The Aspern Papers is a novella by American writer Henry James, originally published in The Atlantic Monthly in 1888, with its first book publication later in the same year. "The Real Thing" is a short story by Henry James, first syndicated by S. S. McClure in multiple American newspapers. The Ambassadors is a 1903 novel by Henry James.