The Portable Henry James (Penguin Classics) by James, Henry -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Introduction Acknowledgements 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 The Portrait of a Lady

III - TRAVEL

From English Hours From Italian Hours From The American Scene France

IV - CRITICISM

V - AUTOBIOGRAPHY

The peaches d’antan The dancing teacher Madame Dubreil A daguerreotype taken by Mathew Brady The Galerie d’Apollon An obscure hurt The death of Minnie Temple At the grave of Alice James

VI - CORRESPONDENCE

A thirteen-year-old in Paris writes to a young friend On the Grand Tour Henry James, expatriate The literary scene in Paris Growing fame The friendship with Robert Louis Stevenson The death of Alice James The friendship with Hendrik C. Andersen The death of William James The publication of Boon, and the break with H. G. Wells

VII - DEFINITION AND DESCRIPTION

An American encounters some aristocrats An ambitious young Frenchwoman Sarah Bernhardt, the muse of the newspaper An American education An American is corrected on what constitutes “the self” An absolutely unmarried woman Philistine decor The really rich New York identity A Venetian majordomo Like a scene from a Maeterlinck play A private thought The seduction of Europe A femme du monde An intimate recollection of a beautiful woman Colossal immodesty The individual Jew New York City Hall The absence of penetralia New York power American teeth A young priest apart from the Roman carnival

VIII - NAMES

FROM THE FICTION FROM THE NOTEBOOKS

IX - PARODY

X - LEGACY

W. H. Auden - AT THE GRAVE OF HENRY JAMES 1941 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 1934 Virginia Woolf - from REVIEW OF THE LETTERS OF HENRY JAMES 1920

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