Madame de Mauves & Other Tales
$47.88
- Paperback
640 pages
- Release Date
17 February 2026
Summary
This selection forms a biography of sorts. Submerged beneath the surface of his melodramas are the unspoken fears that Henry hoped, by living in Europe, to leave behind.
— Frances Wilson, from her preface to Madame de Mauves & Other Tales
The stories in this selection are James’s earliest tales, including ‘A Tragedy of Error’, which was published when he was just twenty-one. With the exception of ‘Madame de Mauves’, which is 31,000 words, all the tales here are sh…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529431124 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529431123 |
| Author: | Henry James, Frances Wilson |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 640 |
| Release Date: | 17 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 44mm |
| Series: | riverrun editions |
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About The Author
Henry James
Henry James (1843 - 1916) was an American-British author, regarded as one of the most important novelists in the English language, and a key figure in the transition between literary realism and literary modernism.
Frances Wilson is an author, academic and critic, who reviews for the Times Literary Supplement, The Spectator, the New Statesman and the Guardian. She has written biographies of Henry James, D.H. Lawrence and Dorothy Wordsworth, among others.
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