The Portable Henry James (Viking portable library) - Softcover

James, Henry; Powers, Lyall; Zabel, Morton

 
9780140150551: The Portable Henry James (Viking portable library)

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.

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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.

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