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Letters / Henry James ; edited by Leon Edel.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- James, Henry, 1843-1916, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- James, Henry, 1843-1916--Correspondence.
- James, Henry.
- James, Henry, 1843-1916.
- Authors, American--19th century--Correspondence.
- Authors, American.
- Authors, American--20th century--Correspondence.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Records and correspondence.
- Autobiographies.
- Personal correspondence.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1974-1984.
- Summary:
- Here at last is the first volume of the long--awaited edition of Henry James letters by the world's foremost Jamesian scholar. James was a superlative letter-writer; his correspondence constitutes one of the greateat self-portraits in all literature. In this edition Mr. 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 one, the first of a projected 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.
- Contents:
- v. 1. 1843-1875.
- v. 2. 1875-1883.
- v. 3. 1883-1895.
- v. 4. 1895-1916.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy imperfect: v.1 only.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy v.1 has ms. notes on half-title.
- Other Format:
- Online version: James, Henry, 1843-1916. Letters.
- ISBN:
- 0674387805
- 9780674387805
- 067438783X
- 9780674387836
- OCLC:
- 1168669
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