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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100195037820

ISBN-139780195037821

eBay Product ID (ePID)4422854

Product Key Features

Number of Pages663 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameComplete Notebooks of Henry James

Publication Year1986

SubjectAmerican / General, Linguistics / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorLyall H. Powers, Henry James

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height2 in

Item Weight37.7 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN86-021680

Dewey Edition19

TitleLeadingThe

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal818/.403

SynopsisThe Complete Notebooks of Henry James opens a wide, clear window into the private workshop of America's master novelist, the architect of modernism in fiction. Assembled and edited by Leon Edel, James's much-acclaimed, prize-winning biographer, and Lyall H. Powers, critic and editor of James's letters to Edith Wharton, this book includes the nine scribbler-notebooks first published in 1947, plus a wealth of new material, including a series of James's pocket diaries, scenarios for unfinished plays, his deathbed dictation, statements for his unfinished novels The Ivory Tower and A Sense of the Past, and much more. It is a volume that deserves to be called definitive. "The notebooks...exist so that [James] might there 'present,' though only to himself, the very things he promises to 'prevent' in his published writing. That is why anyone who likes to eavesdrop on the workings of a master must be grateful to those, like Mr. Edel and Mr. Powers, who, despite him, give us the opportunity."--The New York Times Book Review "Here one is clearly in the presence of a genius; but a genius that is wholly open, unguarded. A quite illuminating and strangely moving experience."--Joyce Carol Oates, The Complete Notebooks of Henry James opens a wide, clear window into the private workshop of America's master novelist, the architect of modernism in fiction. It is a volume that deserves to be called definitive. Assembled and edited by Leon Edel, James's much-acclaimed prizewinning biographer, and Lyall H. Powers, critic and editor of James's letters to Edith Wharton, this book includes the nine scribbler-notebooks that were published by Oxford in 1947; these have been considerably updated and annotated to correct the identification of stories developed by James from his various notes and to reveal many noted Victorians James concealed through use of their initials. Certain omitted portions of the notebooks have also been restored. This volume is especially noteworthy for the body of new material that it contains. It includes a series of James's pocket diaries in which, amid appointments and luncheon dates, he jotted down observations and ideas for his fiction and commented on his personal relations. Also here are some fugitive dictated notes, in which James offered an autobiographcial meditation on the "turning Point in his life and the "working out" of a story based on a passion murder by an American acquaintance in the south of France. James's long out-of-print statements for his unfinished novels The Ivory Tower and The Sense of the Past, scenarios for unfinished plays, the writer's deathbed dictation--all these are here as well. An appendix includes a substantial fragment of a story James never completed, and the book even provides insight into James's "cash accounts." Everywhere throughout the collection, in writings never intended for the public eye, the artist is seen at work. his private prayers to his Muse and exhortations to himself make exhilarating reading., The Complete Notebooks of Henry James opens a wide, clear window into the private workshop of America's master novelist, the architect of modernism in fiction. It is a volume that deserves to be called definitive. Assembled and edited by Leon Edel, James's much-acclaimed prizewinning biographer, and Lyall H. Powers, critic and editor of James's letters to Edith Wharton, this book includes the nine scribbler-notebooks that were published by Oxford in 1947; these have been considerably updated and annotated to correct the identification of stories developed by James from his various notes and to reveal many noted Victorians James concealed through use of their initials. Certain omitted portions of the notebooks have also been restored. This volume is especially noteworthy for the body of new material that it contains. It includes a series of James's pocket diaries in which, amid appointments and luncheon dates, he jotted down observations and ideas for his fiction and commented on his personal relations. Also here are some fugitive dictated notes, in which James offered an autobiographcial meditation on the "turning Point in his life and the "working out" of a story based on a passion murder by an American acquaintance in the south of France. James's long out-of-print statements for his unfinished novels The Ivory Tower and The Sense of the Past , scenarios for unfinished plays, the writer's deathbed dictation--all these are here as well. An appendix includes a substantial fragment of a story James never completed, and the book even provides insight into James's "cash accounts." Everywhere throughout the collection, in writings never intended for the public eye, the artist is seen at work. his private prayers to his Muse and exhortations to himself make exhilarating reading.

LC Classification NumberPS2123.A3 1987