Henry James: A Life in Letters - Hardcover

James, Henry; Horne, Philip

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670885630 ISBN 13: 9780670885633

Publisher: Allen Lane, 1999

Synopsis

Presents the noted author's views on literary craft, sex, politics, and friendship in his letters to such correspondents as William Dean Howells, Edith Wharton, Henry Adams, Robert Louis Stevenison, and H.G. Wells

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Review:

A magnificent... book which will be irresistible to any Jamesian... [It] comes to us with the freshness of a new biography of the man. [I] spent a few enchanted weeks reading and rereading Horne's addictive volume. I haven't enjoyed a book so much in years. -- A. N. Wilson, Independent on Sunday

Philip Horne's cherishing, meticulous, ministering annotations and biographical work... make this a very good book indeed -- Adam Petite, Evening Standard

The whole selection is most helpfully (and stylishly) edited by Philip Horne -- Ian Hamilton, Sunday Telegraph

From the Publisher:

This fully annotated selection from Henry James's eloquent correspondence follows him across America, Britain and continental Europe, and offers us a broad and fascinating panorama of an age of transition, when the foundations of our own world were being laid down. Philip Horne has spent over a decade looking at the thousands of letters in archives in America and England and half of those here have never before been published.

About this edition

• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0670885630
• ISBN 13: 9780670885633
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 704