The New York Stories of Henry James (New York Review Books Classics)

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Henry James led a wandering life, which took him far from his native shores, but he continued to think of New York City, where his family had settled for several years during his childhood, as his hometown. Here Colm Tóibín, the author of the Man Booker Prize–shortlisted novel The Master, a portrait of Henry James, brings together for the first time all the stories that James set in New York City. Written over the course of James's career and ranging from the deliciously tart comedy of the early "An International Episode" to the surreal and haunted corridors of "The Jolly Corner," and including "Washington Square", the poignant novella considered by many (though not, as it happens, by the author himself) to be one of James's finest achievements, the nine fictions gathered here reflect James's varied talents and interests as well as the deep and abiding preoccupations of his imagination. And throughout the book, as Tóibín's fascinating introduction demonstrates, we see James struggling to make sense of a city in whose rapidly changing outlines he discerned both much that he remembered and held dear as well as everything about America and its future that he dreaded most.

Stories included:
The Story of a Masterpiece
A Most Extraordinary Case
Crawford's Consistency
An International Episode
The Impressions of a Cousin
The Jolly Corner
Washington Square
Crapy Cornelia
A Round of Visits

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the partial image of a ghost of a story.......2006-03-11

I am a simple man. And when I read a story, I would like to have the entire story before me, and not be forced to go to the internet to find the rest of it!!!!!!!
This volume, incredibly, omits the third and final chapter of "A Jolly Corner"! It was an intersting experience, accidentally, because reading it without the last chapter made one confront the basic construct of the tale. It seemed incomplete after chapter two, but complete after chapter three. What was the missing element? The female character of absorption and empathy. So, I am glad that the compilation is a complete disaster, as it forced me to confront what this particular short story is really about: female human-ness vs male ego driven self-delusion.

"Washington Square" is the only truly great work in the collection. I loved it.
I rate it a one because surely a person can read these stories on the internet in their complete form.

The Bostonians (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

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****... almost *****
Boston Was Full Of Feminists: But James Was Not One Of Them
Insightful read.
Glad I stumbled on to this one
Henry James is relevant today.

The Bostonians (Everyman's Library (Cloth))
Henry James
Manufacturer: Everyman's Library
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0679417508
Release Date: 1992-11-03

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Henry James' celebrated novel about a passionate New England suffragette, her displaced southern gentleman cousin, and a charismatic young woman whose loyalty they both wished to possess goes so directly to the heart of sexual politics that it speaks to us with a voice as fresh and as vital as when the book was first published in 1882. Majestic in its movement, rich and sympathetic in its ironies, The Bostonians is the work of a master psychologist at the top of his form.

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Satirical novel by Henry James, published serially in Century Illustrated Magazine in 1885-86 and in book form in three volumes in 1886. It was one of the earliest American novels to deal--even obliquely--with lesbianism. Olive Chancellor, a Boston feminist in the 1870s, thinks she has found a kindred spirit in Verena Tarrant, a beautiful young woman who, though passive and indecisive, is a spellbinding orator for women's rights. Olive vies for Verena's attention and affections with Basil Ransom, a gracious but reactionary Confederate army veteran. Verena marries Basil and leaves Boston. The Bostonians is based on Alphonse Daudet's novel L'Evangeliste (1883); James transposed the work to Boston and to the milieu of the rising feminist movement

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****... almost *****.......2006-08-15

"The Bostonians", a novel from the middle period of Henry James' writing career, was apparently not appreciated for a long time. It is, in a way, not surprising, because the criticism of his contemporaries is very acute there. It is good, however, that later on this novel got the praise, which it undoubtedly deserves.

Set in Boston of the end of nineteenth century, after the Civil War, the book tells the story of Verena Tarrant, a fresh, innocent young woman of extraordinary oratory talent. She is a daughter of a "mesmeric healer", who trains her for performance. Verena can captivate the audience with her speeches, not necessarily because of their content, but because of her beauty and appeal. During one of the early private shows, she gets the attention of Olive Chancellor, a slightly older woman devoted to the cause of feminism. She befriends Verena, takes her under her wing (paying her parents considerable sums of money) and trains her to give lectures about suffrage and the freedom of women, hoping to live with Verena continuously, forming what was then called a "Boston marriage" (James' sister formed such union with another woman).

Unfortunately for Olive, at the same show Verena catches the eye of her cousin from the Mississippi, Basil Ransom, a conservative lawyer and a veteran of the civil war from the Southern side. He wants to marry Verena, which means the betrayal of Olive's ideals...

James again succeeded in portraying the typical society members with irony and wit. Interestingly, the female characters prevail in this novel and each of them is unique - wealthy and educated, but stubborn and limited in her artificial want of progress Olive, natural, innocent and, ultimately, silly Verena, Mrs Adeline Luna, Olive's sister, who, being a merry widow, represents everything what Olive despises, old Miss Birdseye, a precursor of the women's movement (based on a real figure, Miss Elizabeth Peabody), or my favorite, Doctor Prance, who is really the personification of the ultimate goal of the movement (she is a professional, no-nonsense woman), but sees the absurdity of Olive's actions very clearly. The only fully developed male character in "The Bostonians" is Basil Ransom; the other few are merely sketched types (like Matthias Pardon, the journalist, Henry Burrage, the Harvard boy, or Selah Tarrant, Verena's father). There are also many such sketched female types, which give in total an extraordinary array of figures. All the main characters are very human, not being unanimously good or bad, but possessing multifaceted, complex personalities. They are also not undoubtedly likeable or despicable, however, Verena with all her faults is probably the nicest, and Olive the most pathetic (James seems rather critical of the feminist movement in the form described in his novel, seemingly treating it as a whim of idle women from the higher class and opposing them reasonable women like Dr Prance; despite the obvious achievements of the movement which we see now, there is something to his opinion).

The historical Boston (the action takes place mainly in the city and its suburbs, Cambridge, the home of Verena's parents, and Roxbury, where Miss Birdseye lives; Olive lives on Charles Street - all the locations are introduced with their social meaning of the time; apart from that some events take place in New York City and on Cape Cod) is described amazingly (the Oxford World's Classics edition has also a city plan at the end), which adds to the historical value of the novel. The only flaw for the modern reader, used to the fast action, may be the slow pace and many descriptions of places, emotions, characters - this is the book which should be tasted with pleasure, not rushed through.

Boston Was Full Of Feminists: But James Was Not One Of Them.......2006-08-14

By the time Henry James had written THE BOSTONIANS in 1886, he was well in his mid section of novel writing. Most of his "American" novels were done but in this one for the first time he chose to use the burgeoning feminist movement as a backdrop for the plot. There is nothing in the story to suggest that James carried a warm place in his heart for feminism. In fact in the character of Olive Chancellor, James seems only too delighted to point out the foilbles of this leader of Boston's feminist movement.

Henry James knew well the importance that Boston held to American political and social history. Olive Chancellor is a product of what she sees as the proud history of that city. She sees herself as the latest torchbearer of a school of thought that began with Thoreau and Emerson. And the latest sparkle to the torch is feminism. Olive is perceptive enough to recognize that she cannot carry the torch by herself so she seeks someone to whom she may safely pass it. This someone is Verena Tarrant, a young and attractive protege whose own flaws are totally unseen by Olive. To begin with, Verena is very much like an "unliberated" woman of today. She is hip, cool, and well-dressed, but she has no tradition of any sort behind her upon which Olive can build. Further, her chief goal in life is to get married, a distinctly unfeminine trait. Complicating Olive's incessant moralizing to Verena, Basil Ransom enters as a handsome lawyer who quickly falls for Verena and she for him. Basil is the male equivalent of Verena. He has scarcely a thought in his head that does not involve winning a case or winning Verena's heart. In the battle between Olive and Basil for the heart and soul of Verena, there is no contest. By the end of the novel, Basil literally sweeps and swoops Verena off her feet and out of town, leaving a disconsolate Olive to ponder her doleful future.

James slowly builds THE BOSTONIANS up to a crescendo of irony. When one considers how much time Olive has spent with Verena inculcating her with feminist thought, one would think that at least part of Olive's exuberance would have rubbed off. The very last page shows James at his ironic best. Basil is a typical macho man who expects his wife to be in the kitchen or the bedroom, without many other stops in between. When he sweeps Verena off her feet, she is at first glad that she chose Basil over Olive, but then "she was in tears. It is to be feared that with the union, so far from brilliant, into which she was about to enter, these were not the last she was destined to shed." The future for Verena contrapuntally indicates James' own ideas about the lasting power and effect of feminism upon impressionable female minds.

Insightful read........2006-08-13

This book is about a couple of women who help shine a light on women's rights movement in the 19th century. It takes place in New England. Henry James is an excellent writer. They way he digs into the minds of his characters really alows you to see them like as if you were their god. Read the book prior to watching the movie; it seemes to me that the movie comes off as a little obsessive; references to Ms. Chancellor come off homosexual and attached to Verena Tarrant which isn't true. The ending to the book and how Verena feels about the decision she has made will also suprise you because it will give you a deeper insight about the meaning for Verenas decision and her personal reflections whereas in the movie you really can't tell what she's thinking. Prior to reading the book, when I watched the movie, my feeling was that Henry James may have been synical about women and their sex but he isn't. Henry James empowers women allowing the world to see that even in the 19th century, when people thought that women were of very little use outside of the kitchen, that they are actually intellectual, brilliant and very insightful, as you may observe in his other works. He doesn't make his female characters look or act MAD but rather sincere.

Glad I stumbled on to this one.......2005-04-15

I picked this one up out of the bin because it sounded somewhat familiar. I would have never picked out a story that revolved around the women's' rights movement during the 19th century unless it was nonfiction.

This book is a treat through and through. The characters are deep, the language interesting and the prose witty. It has a very simple plot, but the journey is great. This was my first Henry James book, but after reading this one, will not hesitate to read another. James takes pride in his craftsmanship and we the readers benefit. Do yourself a favor and take a step back in time and read this one.

Henry James is relevant today........2004-12-19

This book by James is a satiric view at the reformist tendency of Bostonians. Interestingly, Henry Adams, a friend of James, took the same approach in the former's prize winning autobiography. James' portrayal of Ms. Birdseye raised some eyebrows because of the character's similarity to a noted Boston scion of the age. William James had to write to his brother to tell him to tone his description down (the book was being serialized.

Historically the book provides a fascinating glipse of Beacon Hill and its environs as well as the attitudes of the day.

The book does satirize the feminist movement. James had an interest in defining the american 'girl'. This very witty novel fits in with that trend. James is very descriptive. This book is to be savored not rushed.

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"You Can't Please Your Father and Me Both; You Must Choose Between Us..."
a classic American tale of parents and children
A pleasure
Early James At His Best
the sacrificial American girl

Washington Square (Modern Library)
Henry James
Manufacturer: Modern Library
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0679602763
Release Date: 1997-11-25

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"Washington Square is perhaps the only novel in which a man has successfully invaded the feminine field and produced work comparable to Jane Austen's," said Graham Greene.
Inspired by a story Henry James heard at a dinner party, Washington Square tells how the rakish but idle Morris Townsend tries to win the heart of heiress Catherine Sloper against the objections of her father. Precise and understated, the book endures as a matchless social study of New York in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Inspired by a story Henry James heard at a dinner party, Washington Square tells how the rakish but idle Morris Townsend tries to win the heart of heiress Catherine Sloper against the objections of her father. Precise and understated, the book endures as a matchless social study of New York in the mid-nineteenth century.

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"You Can't Please Your Father and Me Both; You Must Choose Between Us...".......2007-07-08

Although Henry James is best known for The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics), this slender volume of a young woman's lifetime is one that resonates for the oddest reasons. With a protagonist who is entirely passive, a plot that is somewhat uneventful and a cast of supporting characters that are entirely unsympathetic, "Washington Square" is a novel that encapsulates a life hardly worth reading about. Paradoxically, that is precisely why it should be read, and why it's so surprisingly memorable.

Catherine Sloper is shy, plain, dull and a little slow in her studies. Her mother was none of these things, leaving her somewhat of a disappointment to her father, an accomplished and well-respected doctor, a man who Catherine adores and longs to please. Well aware of her spiritless nature, Catherine is astonished when she receives the attention of the handsome and charming Morris Townsend, and is soon devotedly in love with her new suitor. Encouraged by her romantic and foolish Aunt Lavinia Penniman, Catherine accepts Morris's proposal of marriage. Unfortunately, her father is not at all impressed by the match, (believing Morris to be a mercenary after her dowry) and forbids Catherine from seeing him on the threat of disinheritance. Torn between the two most important people in her life, the listless and confused Catherine decides to wait. But will her beloved wait for her, or is she deceived by his true intentions?

Catherine's complete ordinariness is what makes her special within the context of the novel, as I am hard-pressed to think up another heroine who is so uncommonly common. Though she is a pleasant enough person, there is nothing remotely interesting to her, save the predicament she finds herself in. Her situation is frustrating to behold, as the poor girl is torn between her intelligent, infallible father and her charming, loving fiancée. Although her father has his daughter's best interests at heart, he handles the affair with such practicality and stubbornness that his crusade against Townsend eventually dwindles into a battle of will between himself and his daughter, and then petty revenge and one-upmanship. Likewise, though Morris Townsend seems faithful and loving, declaring that he has no interest in Catherine's inheritance whatsoever, we cannot shake a sense of untrustworthiness in him. Despite Catherine's plainness, you can't help but feel that neither man deserves her.

To be privy to Catherine's inner struggles is to witness a tiny and insignificant life within literature, with none of the romance, passion or tragedy of Lizzie Bennett, Tess Durbeyfield, Cathy Earnslaw, Jane Eyre, or any other literary heroine that comes to mind. Although Mrs Penniman alleviates some of the gloom with her far-flung intrigues and romances, her presence ultimately brings more harm that good to her young charge. Catherine is a woman who suffers in silence, without witness or companionship, a testimony to how passive-aggressiveness, lost opportunities and selfishness can destroy the life of one who has no means of fighting back. Every single individual on earth would like to believe that they are special, unique and important in some way, and the mediocrity of a life ill-spent becomes quite terrifying by the close of the novel. Catherine's attempts to assert some control over her father and her suitor are pitiful to behold, though they are victories, they are tiny ones within the context of her life. It's almost as if James uses Catherine as a vessel for every individual who has simply "misplaced" their life, and the emptiness that follows those who don't have the means, strength or fortitude to fight against those that hold them in sway. Make sure it never happens to you.

a classic American tale of parents and children.......2007-03-21

Eloquently composed by a master of the World and American novel, Henry James, WASHINGTON SQUARE is a revelatory , painful study of wealth, prestige, and social discrimination in mid nineteenth century New York. Quite possibly James' masterpiece, it poignantly depicts with sympathy and intellectual blindness the a father's oppressing memory of his dead wife upon his innocent, frail and oblivious daughter. The daughter, Catherine Sloper, has become an iconic chatacter in American dramatic literature and film due to James' superficial description of her awkwardness coupled with the arrival of her wit, ruthlessness, spirit and clever sensibility after she is jilted by her fiancee. A remarkable study of how parents unknowingly deprive children of love and nurturing though their grief and personal disappointment.

A pleasure.......2007-01-22

Washington Square is a pleasure to read. Best of all is Henry James' lush prose; his ethereal descriptions of characters and their emotional states and feelings towards others is peerless - and beautiful, and often funny in a stylistic sense. The novel itself functions as an expostition of human greed and the need for control, physically and emotionally. The four focal characters are all well drawn, and because of that their more despicable natures come forward. The naive Catherine; her father, the overbearing Dr. Sloper; his sister, the officious Mrs. Penniman; and the greedy, and lazy, Morris Townsend, ostensibly interested in Catherine only for her, and her father's, money. There is plenty of scheming and posturing by all four of them, and any more words from me will spoil the novel. Also amusing, is the dated sensibilities of the characters; but it all adds up to an enjoyable novel by an American master.

Early James At His Best.......2006-12-18

Though James rejected this tale for inclusion in the New York Edition of his works, presumably because it was too simple and straightforward, many readers have not shared his judgment, insisting instead the work has great merit.
Its theme is an intriguing one that raises the following question: Is it better to be clever or good? Even here, for James, the answer is not all that simple, his conclusion being it's probably best to be some subtle combination of both.
Dr. Sloper and Morris Townsend, the central male figures, are clever men, but each is deficient in his own way. The caustically witty Doctor wants to be just, but his pride in being right about Morris as a fortune hunter ultimately overrides his fatherly concerns. For this reason, he becomes a sort of Hawthorne-like villain, a scientific, detached, almost gleeful observer of his own daughter's plight, rather than a suitably caring parent. He suffers, finally, not from an excess of cleverness, but from a defect of generous felt emotion. Morris, too, is a definitely clever character, but at the same time he's the spoiled creation of enabling women, a boy-man who's more a self-interested player at life than a vital participant in it, an early version of the fatherless "It's all about me" youth of later modern fiction.
The heroine Catherine is a sorely beset young woman, pulled this way and that, now by her right-at-all-costs father, then by her fortune hunting suitor. She is a good, dutiful daughter throughout, though the novel details her growth in intelligent personhood. She finally gains the independence needed to tell her manipulative father where his parental rights end and her own moral self begins. Similarly, once her education in life is complete, she is able to avoid a final romantic capitulation, telling the shameless Morris in the novel's last scene what her mature self now requires he hear from her. Naturally, he's too self-involved to accurately understand her real character.
This short novel, finally, is rich in witty literary parody. It's closing chapters read like an inverted "Odyssey," with the patiently waiting Catherine weaving embroidery in Penelope-like fashion, until the surprise return of the long wandering Morris. All in all, despite the masterly author's doubts, this is a work of considerable distinction.

the sacrificial American girl.......2006-07-10

Washington Square can be read as an upper-class fairy tale. Catherine Sloper has the tendency to see the people around her as if they were characters in a novel. Her father's education has been based on safeguarding Catherine from the vulgarity of "appearance". He is mostly concerned with her daughter not being overdressed. But how is she to learn not to overestimate her acquaintances? The influence of her aunt, a woman of powerful romantic imagination, misleads the young Catherine in her view and opinion of the young and dazzling Morris Townsend. Is he really madly in love with her? What has made this young gentleman worthy of receiving the benefit of every doubt in the Sloper household? Catherine seems to lose her sense of her rights in this relationship: "she had only a consciousness of immense and unexpected favours".

The problem is that Aunt Penniman delights in a drama, and the young Townsend has too high a sense of performance himself to disappoint her. A kiss and an embrace may no longer be a demonstration of affection, but a "sign". The poor bachelorette does not think too much about it, and will take whatever comes her way. Can this man be untrue to her when he says that she is irresistible? Is he in love or is he mercenary?

In the opinion of Dr Sloper, the young Townsend is out to seek his fortune through marriage. He has been reckless in his early youth, squandering his small fortune. But is it too despicable of him to seek to remake his life through matrimony? How are we to draw the moral profile of such a person? Are we capable of mercy, or only of Sloper's smug scorn of Catherine's need for love? It seems to be the case that the "interested" Morris may be altogether more likeable than Catherine's father.

When is the right moment to leave a partner whom one mistrusts? Isn't it better to suffer for a twelvemonth and then get over it than to commit oneself for life to someone unworthy of our cares, be it boyfriend or Dad? Is Morris really a selfish idler? On the occasion of her being disinherited, would Morris still care to marry an unattractive and impoverished girl?

Cosmopolitanism is in the novel a measure of young Catherine's incapacity to develop. After her father takes her for an artistic tour of Europe, she hasn't managed to grow into a "wiser" woman. But how is wisdom to be measured? She becomes withdrawn from her tactless and proud father. After she has been cruelly jilted, Dr Sloper is perverse enough to mock her having lost her chance to marry a charming young man. One is led to believe that Sloper had some Freudian attachment to his daughter, who had come to substitute his her beautiful mother in Sloper's heart. James's understanding of romantic and human emotions is deeply moving.

The Other House (New York Review Books Classics)

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A surprisingly quick read
real, rounded characters
Unexpected Page Turner--Timeless
When does the movie come out?

The Other House (New York Review Books Classics)
Henry James
Manufacturer: NYRB Classics
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0940322323
Release Date: 1999-09-30

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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

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A surprisingly quick read.......2003-06-06

It's hard to believe that James's theatrical turn of the late 19th century ended with his audience "booing" him off the stage. This novelized play reads quickly and delightfully. I've read more than twenty of his novels, and this was the quickest of them all.

The plot is simple enough (at least for James): two houses, apparently back to back, in Wilverley, a small English village, set the scene. One contains a widow, the other a young married couple. The young wife widows the young husband, and he becomes Wilverley's "most eligible bachelor," except for the fact that he promised his dying wife that he would never marry again, at least not during the life of his child. So somebody has to kill the child, right?

Enter James's genius for character. There's Paul, the huge, infinitely imperturbable son of the wealthy Mrs. Beever; the diminutive and impetuous Dennis Vidal; Tony Bream himself, a remarkably good-natured but insensitive fool; and the powerful Mrs. Beever, whose awful determination cows every one else before her. Like James's best writing, his characters become interesting on their own; his fictions become an opportunity to satisfy curiosity. I think that's what makes this book a "page-turner"; the characters are interesting enough that I want to know what's going to happen.

In the end, I suppose, what makes this book succeed is what would have made the dramatic version fail: James's endless fascination with the workings of the human mind must have become either painfully boring or just incomprehensible to a theatrical audience. However it came about, I recommend it unequivocally.

real, rounded characters.......2002-07-24

This book is a novelization of the play by the same name. And you can see the stageplay - the characters are continually coming and going - and there's stage business - all of which I think shows some stiffness - yet about half way through the novel I was startled at how much the characters were real, rounded - I could just about see them - they ached with life - I was always aware of the stage during the novel - the story itself is rather shocking - it's a mystery novel! - it's all very well done - it's short - and it's very psychological

Unexpected Page Turner--Timeless.......1999-09-29

I am impressed with The New York Review's revival of this unexpectedly non-Jamesian title. A truly unique James choice to bring back to life--it's been done so with a cover so compelling (I'm not a tradional James fan) I opened the book which I found locally in a brick and mortar as they are now called, book shop. The internet cannot do justice to the thoughtful sophistication of this book's packaging. (But I can purchase another copy here more easily!) The publisher's comments about the work were also compelling and complimentary to the cover art. The Other House is a mystery, a detective story, a love triangle with more than three angles--a true page turner--with a timelessly human plot and "modern" characters. Anyone thriller fan would be enchanted with it. And turning every page, holding the book, is a sensory thrill. Paper, writing, art--all representative of what any literary rebirth deserves. If it's worth bringing back--do it with quality, I say! They did--along with a whole marvelous collection of equally intriguing books, with well written new introductions. Good choices--the pieces themselves, the introduction authors and the book artist designers. Truly timeless in all ways!

When does the movie come out?.......1999-08-22

A trusted friend sent me a copy of this new edition of The Other House, insisting that I'd enjoy it. It looked intriguing. I felt obligated to at least give it a try. I still trust the friend! I can't believe this is what is known as a Classic. I thought they were all very boring. I couldn't wait to get back to this plot and I'd never have thought it was written in the uptight Victorian era. It's more like a movie special of the week or one of the top ten best selling novels. Read it then recommend it and impress your friends with your literary depth.

Daisy Miller; Pandora; The Patagonia; The Marriages; The Real Thing; Brooksmith; The Beldonald Holbein; The Story in it; Flickerbridge; Mrs. Medwin (Novels & Tales of Henry James, New York Edition Volume XVIII)

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Daisy Miller; Pandora; The Patagonia; The Marriages; The Real Thing; Brooksmith; The Beldonald Holbein; The Story in it; Flickerbridge; Mrs. Medwin (Novels & Tales of Henry James, New York Edition Volume XVIII)
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The turn of the screw ; & Washington Square (Barnes & Noble classic)

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The turn of the screw ; & Washington Square (Barnes & Noble classic)
Henry James
Manufacturer: Barnes & Noble
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ASIN: 0760739005

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Both stories complete in one book!

Henry James and Revision: The New York Edition

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Henry James and Revision: The New York Edition
Philip Horne
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0198128711

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At the height of his career and the zenith of his creative powers, Henry James returned to works he had written up to thirty-five years before and "wrote them over" for the New York edition of his novels and tales (1907-1909). The first detailed study of the subject, this book uses new
material to tell the story of James's heroic renewed commitment to his oeuvre. It examines the revision of particular works, shedding new light on interpretative controversies (especially with The Portrait of a Lady and Daisy Miller), and attends to questions of principle raised by the paradoxical
processes of the reviser. Revealing James's painful struggle for perfection, the study illuminates his genius as a framer of sentences and a master of dramatic nuance. With both critical and biographical approaches, this vivid portrait of James's achievement will appeal to students of James and the
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"The story in it": The design of Henry James's "New York edition."

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"The story in it": The design of Henry James's "New York edition."
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