Henry James Letters 1843-1875

by Edel, Leon

• ISBN13: 9780674387805
• ISBN10: 0674387805
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1974-12-01
• Publisher: Belknap Pr

Summary

Here at last is the first volume of the long--awaited edition of Henry James letters by the world's foremost Jamesian scholar. James was a superlative letter-writer; his correspondence constitutes one of the greateat self-portraits in all literature. In this edition Mr. 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 one, the first of a projected 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.

Table of Contents

Introduction Brief Chronology

Boyhood and Youth 1843-1861

Beginnings 1861- 1868

The Grand Tour 1869-1870

A Season in Cambridge 1870-1872

Travel and Opportunity 1872-1874

The Choice 1874-1875

Index

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