The Middle Years & Other Tales
$46.14
- Paperback
528 pages
- Release Date
17 February 2026
Summary
Both the fictional and autobiographical versions of ‘The Middle Years’ are concerned with authors, acolytes, and endings rather than the middle of things. Or rather they are about, as are all the tales of James’s middle years, the recognition of one’s own extreme brevity.
— Frances Wilson, from her preface to The Middle Years & Other Tales
The stories in this collection represent Henry James’s middle years, a time in his life which he described as ‘misanthropic, m…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529431148 |
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| ISBN-10: | 152943114X |
| Author: | Henry James, Frances Wilson |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | riverrun |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 528 |
| Release Date: | 17 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 360g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 36mm |
| 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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