Henry James, Letters. Volume I: 1843-1875. Volume Ii 1875 - 1883

James, Henry, Ed. By Leon Edel. (Markings By Martha Banta)

ISBN 10: 0674387805 / ISBN 13: 9780674387805

Published by The Belknap Press Of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1974

About this Item

Two Volumes. Navy Blue Cloth, Gilt. First Printings. Near Fine Books, But Extensive Pencil Underlining By Martha Banta. No Dj For Volume Ii, Volume I Dj Worn, Small Chips And Tears, Good Only. Ucla Professor Martha Banta Was "An Iconoclastic And Prolific Scholar Of American Literature And Culture, Professor Banta Published Eight Books On A Wide Range Of Subjects, Four Of Them Since Her Retirement From Teaching In 1998. At The Time Of Her Death, She Had Completed A Ninth Manuscript About Plato?S Influence In Literary History And Had Been Working On A Tenth, About The American Love Of ?Little Wars.? Banta Was Throughout Her Career A Scholar Of Henry James, The Subject Of Her First Book, Henry James And The Occult, And Wrote The Introduction To One Volume Of His Complete Letters, A Continuing Project At The University Of Nebraska Press. For Penguin And Oxford World Classics, Banta Edited And Introduced Works By James, Edith Wharton, And Thorstein Veblen. She Was Also Associate Editor Of The Columbia Literary History Of The United States And Editor And Contributor To The Harper American Literature Anthology.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Henry James, Letters. Volume I: 1843-1875. Volume Ii 1875 - 1883
• Publisher: The Belknap Press Of Harvard University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674387805
• ISBN 13: 9780674387805
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature: Nineteenth Century

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Synopsis

Here at last is the first volume of the long-awaited edition of Henry James letters by the world’s foremost Jamesian scholar, Leon Edel.

James was a superlative letter-writer; his correspondence constitutes one of the greatest self-portraits in all literature. In this edition 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 I, the first of 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.

About the Author

Among his many accomplishments over some forty years devoted to James scholarship, Leon Edel was the author of the monumental five-volume Life of Henry James, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He was Citizens Professor of English at the University of Hawai‘i.