Henry James: Literary Criticism Vol. 2 (LOA #23)
European Writers and Prefaces to the New York Edition
$99.84
- Hardcover
1442 pages
- Release Date
31 December 1984
Summary
Henry James, renowned as one of the world’s great novelists, was also one of the most illuminating, audacious, and masterly critics of modern times.This Library of America volume is one of two volumes of the most extensive collection of his critical writings ever assembled, with many pieces never before available in book form. It includes reviews of a great number of European writers, especially French writers, along with more general essays and the Prefaces Henry James wrote for the New York…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780940450233 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0940450232 |
| Author: | Henry James |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 1442 |
| Release Date: | 31 December 1984 |
| Weight: | 889g |
| Dimensions: | 208mm x 131mm x 42mm |
| Series: | Library of America Collected Nonfiction of Henry James |
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“Also, we realize, James possessed a point of view tailor-made for the vocation of literary criticism. The critic’s life, he wrote in one essay, ‘is heroic, for it is immensely vicarious. He has to understand for others.’”— The New York Times
About The Author
Henry James
Henry James(1843-1916), born in New York City, was the son of noted religious philosopher Henry James, Sr., and brother of eminent psychologist and philosopher William James. His many works includeWashington Square(1880),The Portrait of a Lady(1881),The Princess Casamassima(1886),The Aspern Papers(1888),The Turn of the Screw(1898), and three large novels of the new century,The Wings of the Dove(1902),The Ambassadors(1903) andThe Golden Bowl(1904). He died in London in February 1916.Leon Edel(1907-1997), volume editor, was professor of English at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. His five-volume biography of Henry James received both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Mark Wilson, associate editor of this volume, was professor of English at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.
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