Bibliograph

Collected stories, Henry James ; selected and introduced by John Bayley, Volume 1

Type

Label

Collected stories, Henry James ; selected and introduced by John Bayley, Volume 1

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Collected stories

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

646695661

Responsibility statement

Henry James ; selected and introduced by John Bayley

Series statement

Everyman's library, 244

Summary

Spanning a period of almost 50 years, the stories of Henry James represent one of the most remarkable feats of sustained literary creation in modern times -- a body of work that, for sheer richness, variety, and intensity, is unsurpassed in its genre. This collection includes all the major stories as well as many that are unfamiliar but equally fascinating and memorable. Volume I covers the years in which James was evolving his art as a storyteller. It includes such masterpieces as "Daisy Miller", "The Aspern Papers", "The Lesson of the Master", and other tales in which James established his favorite character types and situations: the American girl in Europe, the solitary observer, the social climber, the literary lion. Volume II includes the magnificent works of James's maturity -- "The Figure in the Carpet", "The Turn of the Screw", "The Beast in the Jungle", among many others -- in which the deepening darkness of the author's own life casts a tragic but heroic shadow on the themes of his youth

Target audience

adult

Classification