The Portable Henry James
Published on 30. December 2003
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Paperback/Softback
672 pages
978-0-14-243767-4 (ISBN)
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A single volume introduction to the renowned author of The Portrait of A Lady, Washington Square and The Wings of the Dove. This collection of seven of James's major tales, including The Turn of the Screw and Daisy Miller, is published here together with samples of his non fiction writing.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Penguin Books Ltd
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Paperback (trade)
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Height: 197 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
701 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-243767-4 (9780142437674)
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Persons
Henry James was born in New York in 1843, the son of a prominent theologian and philosopher. He attended schools throughout America and Europe before beginning his writing career contributing short stories and reviews to American journals. He went on to write over 20 novels in addition to many short stories, plays and books of criticism in the course of his lifetime and was awarded the Order of Merit in 1916. John Auchard is a professor of English at the University of Maryland,College Park. Amongst his works on Henry James are Silence in Henry James: The Heritage of Symbolism and Decadence and the Penguin Classics edition of James's Italian Hours.
Content
The Portable Henry JamesIntroduction
Chronology
Acknowledgments
I. Fiction
Daisy Miller: A Study
"Brooksmith"
"The Real Thing"
"The Middle Years"
The Turn of the Screw
"The Beast in the Jungle
"The Jolly Corner"
II. Revisions
Daisy Miller: 1879 and 1909
The Portrait of a Lady: 1881 and 1908
III. Travel
From English Hours
"London at Midsummer"
From Italian Hours
"Two Old Houses and Three Young Women"
"The Saint's Afternoon and Others"
From The American Scene
"The Bowery and Thereabouts"
from "Boston"
"France"
IV. Criticism
On Whitman
"brute sublimity"
On Baudelaire
"This is not Evil...it is simply the nasty!"
From Hawthorne
"No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church"
On Emerson
"salt is wanting"
"The Art of Fiction"
"the chamber of consciousness"
"Try to be one...on whom nothing is lost!"
From "the Question of Our Speech"
"Our national use of the vocal sound, in men and women alike, is slovenly"
From "The Lesson of Balzac"
"plated and burnished and bright"
On Shakespeare
the "absolute value of Style"
From the Preface to Roderick Hudson
"Really, universally, relations stop nowhere"
From the Preface to The Portrait of a Lady
"The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million"
From the Preface to The Tragic Muse
"large loose baggy monsters"
V. Autobiography
The peaches d'antan
from A Small Boy and Others
The dancing teacher Madame Dubreil
from A Small Boy and Others
A daguerreotype taken by Mathew Brady
from A Small Boy and Others
The Galerie d'Apollon
from A Small Boy and Others
An obscure hurt
from Notes of a Son and Brother
The death of Minnie Temple
from Notes of a Son and Brother
At the grave of Alice James
from The Complete Notebooks
VI. Correspondence
A thirteen-year-old in Paris writes to a young friend
To Edgar Van Winkle; 1856
On the Grand Tour
To William James; October 30, 1869
Henry James, expatriate
To the James family; November 1, 1875
The literary scene in Paris
To William Dean Howells; May 28, 1876
Growing fame
To Miss Abbey Alger; November 21, 1881
The friendship with Robert Louis Stevenson
To Robert Louis Stevenson; July 31, 1888
The death of Alice James
To William James; March 8, 1892
The friendship with Hendrik C. Andersen
To Hendrik C. Andersen; February 9, 1902
To Hendrik C. Andersen; February 28, 1902
The death of William James
To Thomas Sergeant Perry; September 2, 1910
To H. G. Wells; September 11, 1910
The publication of Boon, and the break with H. G. Wells
To H. G. Wells; July 6, 1915
To H. G. Wells; July 10, 1915
VII. Definition and Description
An American encounters some aristocrats
from The American
An ambitious young Frenchwoman
from The American
Sarah Bernhardt, the muse of the newspaper
from "The Comedie Francaise in London"
An American education
from The Portrait of a Lady
An American is corrected on what constitutes "the self"
from The Portrait of a Lady
An absolutely unmarried woman
from The Bostonians
Philistine decor
from The Spils of Poynton
The really rich
from The Wings of the Dove
New York identity
from The Wings of the Dove
A Venetian majordomo
from The Wings of the Dove
Like a scene from a Maeterlinck play
from The Wings of the Dove
A private thought
from the Wings of the Dove
The seduction of Europe
from the Ambassadors
A femme du monde
from The Ambassadors
An intimate recollection of a beautiful woman
from The Golden Bowl
Colossal immodesty
from The American Scene
The individual Jew
from The American Scene
New York City Hall
from The American Scene
The absence of penetralia
from The American Scene
New York Power
from The American Scene
American teeth
from The American Scene
A young priest apart from the Roman carnival
from Italian Hours
VIII. Names
IX. Parody
Frank Moore Colby
from "In Darkest James"
Max Beerbohm
" 'The Mote in the Middle Distance,' by H*nry J*mes"
X. Legacy
W.H. Auden
"At the Grave of Henry James"
Joseph Conrad
from "Henry James: An Appreciation"
T.S. Eliot
from "In Memory"
Graham Greene
from "Henry James: The Private Universe"
Ezra Pound
from "Henry James"
Edith Wharton
from A Backward Glance
Virginia Woolf
from "Review of The Letters of Henry James"
Suggestions for Further Reading
Selected Bibliography
Chronology
Acknowledgments
I. Fiction
Daisy Miller: A Study
"Brooksmith"
"The Real Thing"
"The Middle Years"
The Turn of the Screw
"The Beast in the Jungle
"The Jolly Corner"
II. Revisions
Daisy Miller: 1879 and 1909
The Portrait of a Lady: 1881 and 1908
III. Travel
From English Hours
"London at Midsummer"
From Italian Hours
"Two Old Houses and Three Young Women"
"The Saint's Afternoon and Others"
From The American Scene
"The Bowery and Thereabouts"
from "Boston"
"France"
IV. Criticism
On Whitman
"brute sublimity"
On Baudelaire
"This is not Evil...it is simply the nasty!"
From Hawthorne
"No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church"
On Emerson
"salt is wanting"
"The Art of Fiction"
"the chamber of consciousness"
"Try to be one...on whom nothing is lost!"
From "the Question of Our Speech"
"Our national use of the vocal sound, in men and women alike, is slovenly"
From "The Lesson of Balzac"
"plated and burnished and bright"
On Shakespeare
the "absolute value of Style"
From the Preface to Roderick Hudson
"Really, universally, relations stop nowhere"
From the Preface to The Portrait of a Lady
"The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million"
From the Preface to The Tragic Muse
"large loose baggy monsters"
V. Autobiography
The peaches d'antan
from A Small Boy and Others
The dancing teacher Madame Dubreil
from A Small Boy and Others
A daguerreotype taken by Mathew Brady
from A Small Boy and Others
The Galerie d'Apollon
from A Small Boy and Others
An obscure hurt
from Notes of a Son and Brother
The death of Minnie Temple
from Notes of a Son and Brother
At the grave of Alice James
from The Complete Notebooks
VI. Correspondence
A thirteen-year-old in Paris writes to a young friend
To Edgar Van Winkle; 1856
On the Grand Tour
To William James; October 30, 1869
Henry James, expatriate
To the James family; November 1, 1875
The literary scene in Paris
To William Dean Howells; May 28, 1876
Growing fame
To Miss Abbey Alger; November 21, 1881
The friendship with Robert Louis Stevenson
To Robert Louis Stevenson; July 31, 1888
The death of Alice James
To William James; March 8, 1892
The friendship with Hendrik C. Andersen
To Hendrik C. Andersen; February 9, 1902
To Hendrik C. Andersen; February 28, 1902
The death of William James
To Thomas Sergeant Perry; September 2, 1910
To H. G. Wells; September 11, 1910
The publication of Boon, and the break with H. G. Wells
To H. G. Wells; July 6, 1915
To H. G. Wells; July 10, 1915
VII. Definition and Description
An American encounters some aristocrats
from The American
An ambitious young Frenchwoman
from The American
Sarah Bernhardt, the muse of the newspaper
from "The Comedie Francaise in London"
An American education
from The Portrait of a Lady
An American is corrected on what constitutes "the self"
from The Portrait of a Lady
An absolutely unmarried woman
from The Bostonians
Philistine decor
from The Spils of Poynton
The really rich
from The Wings of the Dove
New York identity
from The Wings of the Dove
A Venetian majordomo
from The Wings of the Dove
Like a scene from a Maeterlinck play
from The Wings of the Dove
A private thought
from the Wings of the Dove
The seduction of Europe
from the Ambassadors
A femme du monde
from The Ambassadors
An intimate recollection of a beautiful woman
from The Golden Bowl
Colossal immodesty
from The American Scene
The individual Jew
from The American Scene
New York City Hall
from The American Scene
The absence of penetralia
from The American Scene
New York Power
from The American Scene
American teeth
from The American Scene
A young priest apart from the Roman carnival
from Italian Hours
VIII. Names
IX. Parody
Frank Moore Colby
from "In Darkest James"
Max Beerbohm
" 'The Mote in the Middle Distance,' by H*nry J*mes"
X. Legacy
W.H. Auden
"At the Grave of Henry James"
Joseph Conrad
from "Henry James: An Appreciation"
T.S. Eliot
from "In Memory"
Graham Greene
from "Henry James: The Private Universe"
Ezra Pound
from "Henry James"
Edith Wharton
from A Backward Glance
Virginia Woolf
from "Review of The Letters of Henry James"
Suggestions for Further Reading
Selected Bibliography