The Portable Henry James (Viking portable library) - Softcover

James, Henry; Powers, Lyall; Zabel, Morton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140150552 ISBN 13: 9780140150551

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1979

Synopsis

DESCRIPTION OF BOOK: THREE NOUVELLES: THE TURN OF THE SCREW, THE BEAST IN THEJUNGLE, AND THE PUPIL. THREE SHORTSTORIES. CRITICAL ESSAYS, INCLUDING THE FAMOUS "THE ART OF FICTION". TRAVEL SKETCHES. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL SELECTIONS. A CROSS SECTION OF LETTERS. "BOLDLY ORIGINAL IN CONCEPTION AND MASTERLY IN EXECUTION...STANDSOUT AS ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL VOLUMES IN A SERIES NOTABLE FOR EXPERTEDITING". - NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE.

About this title

About the Author:

Henry James was born in 1843 in New York and died in London in 1916. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875). They include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0140150552
• ISBN 13: 9780140150551
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 704