Collected Stories Volume 2

by James, Henry; Bayley, John

• ISBN13: 9780375409363
• ISBN10: 037540936X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-03-07
• Publisher: Everyman's Library

Summary

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Author Biography

Henry James was born on April 15, 1843, on Washington Place in New York to the most intellectually remarkable of American families. His father, Henry James Sr., was a brilliant and eccentric religious philosopher; his brother was one of the first great American psychologists and the author of the influential Pragmatism; his sister, Alice, though an invalid for most of her life, was a talented conversationalist, a lively letter writer, and a witty observer of the art and politics of her time.

In search of the proper education for his children, Henry senior sent them to schools in America, France, Germany, and Switzerland. Returning to America, Henry junior lived in Newport, briefly attended Harvard Law School, and in 1864 began contributing stories and book reviews to magazines. Two more trips to Europe led to his final decision to settle there, first in Paris in 1875, then in London next year.

James's first major novel, Roderick Hudson, appeared in 1875, but it was Daisy Miller (1878) that brought him international fame as the chronicler of American expatriates and their European adventures. His novels include The American (1877), Washington Square (1880),Princess Casamassima (1886), and the three late masterpieces, The Wings of the Dove (1902), The Ambassadors (1903) and The Golden Bowl (1904). He also wrote plays, criticism, autobiography, travel books (including The American Scene, 1907) and some of the finest short stories in the English language.

His later works were little read during his lifetime but have since come to be recognized as forerunners of literary modernism. Upon the outbreak of World War I, James threw his energies into war relief work and decided to adopt British citizenship. One month before his death in 1916, he received the Order of Merit from King George V.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Select Bibliography	xxiii
Chronology	xxiv
A Note on the Text	xxx
The Private Life (1892)	3	(36)
The Real Thing (1892)	39	(28)
Owen Wingrave (1892)	67	(36)
The Middle Years (1893)	103	(22)
The Death of the Lion (1894)	125	(38)
The Coxon Fund (1894)	163	(60)
The Next Time (1895)	223	(42)
The Altar of the Dead (1895)	265	(38)
The Figure in the Carpet (1896)	303	(38)
The Turn of the Screw (1898)	341	(110)
In the Cage (1898)	451	(92)
The Real Right Thing (1899)	543	(14)
The Great Good Place (1900)	557	(26)
Miss Gunton of Poughkeepsie (1900)	583	(14)
The Abasement of the Northmores (1900)	597	(20)
The Special Type (1900)	617	(20)
The Tone of Time (1900)	637	(22)
The Two Faces (1900)	659	(16)
The Beldonald Holbein (1901)	675	(22)
The Story in it (1902)	697	(18)
Flickerbridge (1902)	715	(22)
The Beast in the Jungle (1903)	737	(48)
The Papers (1903)	785	(100)
Fordham Castle (1904)	885	(22)
Julia Bride (1908)	907	(38)
The Jolly Corner (1908)	945	(36)
Crapy Cornelia (1909)	981	(30)
The Bench of Desolation (1909)	1011	(50)
A Round of Visits (1910)	1061