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Product Identifiers

PublisherHarvard University Press

ISBN-100674387805

ISBN-139780674387805

eBay Product ID (ePID)980518

Product Key Features

Number of Pages494 Pages

Publication NameLetters of Henry James, Volume I: 1843-1875

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1974

SubjectLetters, Literary, American / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections

AuthorHenry James

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.2 in

Item Weight30.5 Oz

Item Length0.9 in

Item Width0.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN74-077181

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition21

Volume NumberVolume I

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal813.4

Table Of ContentIntroduction Brief Chronology 1. Boyhood and Youth 1843-1861 2. Beginnings 1861- 1868 3. The Grand Tour 1869-1870 4. A Season in Cambridge 1870-1872 5. Travel and Opportunity 1872-1874 6. The Choice 1874-1875 Index

SynopsisHenry James was a superlative letter-writer; his correspondence constitutes one of the greateat self-portraits in all literature. Here Leon Edel, respecting James's view that only the best of a writer's letters deserve publication, skims the cream of the 15,000 letters collected or discovered since the novelist's death in 1916., Here at last is the first volume of the long-awaited edition of Henry James letters by the world's foremost Jamesian scholar, Leon Edel. James was a superlative letter-writer; his correspondence constitutes one of the greatest self-portraits in all literature. In this edition Edel, respecting James's view that only the best of a writer's letters deserve publication, skims the cream of the fifteen thousand letters collected or discovered, many by the biographer himself, since the novelist's death in 1916. In Volume I, the first of four, he provides a General Introduction and a necessary minimum of annotation, and prefaces each section-Boyhood and Youth; Beginnings; The Grand Tour; A Season in Cambridge; Travel and Opportunity; and The Choice-with an informative account of James's attitudes and activities during the period in question. The volume closes, appropriately, with James's decision in 1875, at age thirty-two, to move permanently to Europe., Here at last is the first volume of the long-awaited edition of Henry James letters by the world's foremost Jamesian scholar, Leon Edel. James was a superlative letter-writer; his correspondence constitutes one of the greatest self-portraits in all literature. In this edition Edel, respecting James's view that only the best of a writer's letters deserve publication, skims the cream of the fifteen thousand letters collected or discovered, many by the biographer himself, since the novelist's death in 1916. In Volume I, the first of four, he provides a General Introduction and a necessary minimum of annotation, and prefaces each section--Boyhood and Youth; Beginnings; The Grand Tour; A Season in Cambridge; Travel and Opportunity; and The Choice--with an informative account of James's attitudes and activities during the period in question. The volume closes, appropriately, with James's decision in 1875, at age thirty-two, to move permanently to Europe.

LC Classification NumberPS2123