{"product_id":"the-portable-henry-james-isbn-9780142437674","title":"The Portable Henry James","description":"Henry James wrote with an imperial elegance of style, whether his subjects were American innocents or European sophisticates, incandescent women or their vigorous suitors. His omniscient eye took in the surfaces of cities, the nuances of speech, dress, and manner, and, above all, the microscopic interactions, hesitancies, betrayals, and self-betrayals that are the true substance of relationships. The entirely new \u003ci\u003ePortable Henry James\u003c\/i\u003e provides an unparalleled range of this great body of work: seven major tales, including \u003ci\u003eDaisy Miller, The Turn of the Screw\u003c\/i\u003e, \"The Beast in the Jungle,\" and \"The Jolly Corner\"; a sampling of revisions James made to some of his most famous work; travel writing; literary criticism; correspondences; autobiography; descriptions of the major novels; and parodies by famous contemporaries, including T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Virginia Woolf, and Graham Greene.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.The Portable Henry James\u003ci\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChronology\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI. Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaisy Miller: A Study\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brooksmith\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Real Thing\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Middle Years\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Turn of the Screw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Beast in the Jungle\u003cbr\u003e\"The Jolly Corner\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII. Revisions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaisy Miller: \u003c\/i\u003e1879 and 1909\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Portrait of a Lady: \u003c\/i\u003e1881 and 1908\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII. Travel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eEnglish Hours\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"London at Midsummer\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eItalian Hours\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Two Old Houses and Three Young Women\"\u003cbr\u003e\"The Saint's Afternoon and Others\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe American Scene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The Bowery and Thereabouts\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efrom \"Boston\"\u003cbr\u003e  \"France\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIV. Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Whitman\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"brute sublimity\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Baudelaire\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"This is not Evil...it is simply the nasty!\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eHawthorne\u003cbr\u003e\"No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Emerson\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"salt is wanting\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Art of Fiction\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"the chamber of consciousness\"\u003cbr\u003e\"Try to be one...on whom nothing is lost!\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \"the Question of Our Speech\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Our national use of the vocal sound, in men and women alike, is slovenly\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom \"The Lesson of Balzac\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"plated and burnished and bright\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe \"absolute value of Style\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Preface to \u003ci\u003eRoderick Hudson\u003cbr\u003e\"Really, universally, relations stop nowhere\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Preface to \u003ci\u003eThe Portrait of a Lady\u003cbr\u003e\"The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Preface to \u003ci\u003eThe Tragic Muse\u003cbr\u003e\"large loose baggy monsters\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eV. Autobiography\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe peaches \u003ci\u003ed'antan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eA Small Boy and Others\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dancing teacher Madame Dubreil\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eA Small Boy and Others\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA daguerreotype taken by Mathew Brady\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eA Small Boy and Others\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Galerie d'Apollon\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eA Small Boy and Others\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn obscure hurt\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eNotes of a Son and Brother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe death of Minnie Temple\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eNotes of a Son and Brother\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the grave of Alice James\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Notebooks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVI. Correspondence\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA thirteen-year-old in Paris writes to a young friend\u003cbr\u003eTo Edgar Van Winkle; 1856\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the Grand Tour\u003cbr\u003eTo William James; October 30, 1869\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry James, expatriate\u003cbr\u003eTo the James family; November 1, 1875\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe literary scene in Paris\u003cbr\u003eTo William Dean Howells; May 28, 1876\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrowing fame\u003cbr\u003eTo Miss Abbey Alger; November 21, 1881\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe friendship with Robert Louis Stevenson\u003cbr\u003eTo Robert Louis Stevenson; July 31, 1888\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe death of Alice James\u003cbr\u003eTo William James; March 8, 1892\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe friendship with Hendrik C. Andersen\u003cbr\u003eTo Hendrik C. Andersen; February 9, 1902\u003cbr\u003eTo Hendrik C. Andersen; February 28, 1902\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe death of William James\u003cbr\u003eTo Thomas Sergeant Perry; September 2, 1910\u003cbr\u003eTo H. G. Wells; September 11, 1910\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe publication of \u003ci\u003eBoon\u003c\/i\u003e, and the break with H. G. Wells\u003cbr\u003eTo H. G. Wells; July 6, 1915\u003cbr\u003eTo H. G. Wells; July 10, 1915\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVII. Definition and Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn American encounters some aristocrats\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe American\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn ambitious young Frenchwoman\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe American\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarah Bernhardt, the muse of the newspaper\u003cbr\u003efrom \"The Comedie Francaise in London\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn American education\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe Portrait of a Lady\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn American is corrected on what constitutes \"the self\"\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe Portrait of a Lady\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn absolutely unmarried woman\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe Bostonians\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilistine decor\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe Spils of Poynton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe really rich\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe Wings of the Dove\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew York identity\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe Wings of the Dove\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Venetian majordomo\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe Wings of the Dove\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike a scene from a Maeterlinck play\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe Wings of the Dove\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA private thought\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003ethe Wings of the Dove\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe seduction of Europe\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003ethe Ambassadors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA femme du monde\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe Ambassadors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn intimate recollection of a beautiful woman\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Bowl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eColossal immodesty\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe American Scene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe individual Jew\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe American Scene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew York City Hall\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe American Scene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe absence of penetralia\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe American Scene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew York Power\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe American Scene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican teeth\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eThe American Scene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA young priest apart from the Roman carnival\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eItalian Hours\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVIII. Names\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIX. Parody\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrank Moore Colby\u003cbr\u003efrom \"In Darkest James\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMax Beerbohm\u003cbr\u003e\" 'The Mote in the Middle Distance,' by H*nry J*mes\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eX. Legacy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eW.H. Auden\u003cbr\u003e\"At the Grave of Henry James\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Conrad\u003cbr\u003efrom \"Henry James: An Appreciation\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eT.S. Eliot\u003cbr\u003efrom \"In Memory\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGraham Greene\u003cbr\u003efrom \"Henry James: The Private Universe\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEzra Pound\u003cbr\u003efrom \"Henry James\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdith Wharton\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eA Backward Glance\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVirginia Woolf\u003cbr\u003efrom \"Review of \u003ci\u003eThe Letters of Henry James\u003c\/i\u003e\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSuggestions for Further Reading\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry James\u003c\/b\u003e (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. He spent his early life in America and studied in Geneva, London and Paris during his adolescence to gain the worldly experience so prized by his father. He lived in Newport, went briefly to Harvard Law School, and in 1864 began to contribute both criticism and tales to magazines.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1869, and then in 1872-74, he paid visits to Europe and began his first novel, \u003cb\u003eRoderick Hudson\u003c\/b\u003e. Late in 1875 he settled in Paris, where he met Turgenev, Flaubert, and Zola, and wrote \u003cb\u003eThe American\u003c\/b\u003e (1877). In December 1876 he moved to London, where two years later he achieved international fame with \u003cb\u003eDaisy Miller\u003c\/b\u003e. Other famous works include \u003cb\u003eWashington Square\u003c\/b\u003e (1880), \u003cb\u003eThe Portrait of a Lady\u003c\/b\u003e (1881), \u003cb\u003eThe Princess Casamassima\u003c\/b\u003e (1886), \u003cb\u003eThe Aspern Papers\u003c\/b\u003e (1888), \u003cb\u003eThe Turn of the Screw\u003c\/b\u003e (1898), and three large novels of the new century, \u003cb\u003eThe Wings of the Dove\u003c\/b\u003e (1902), \u003cb\u003eThe Ambassadors\u003c\/b\u003e (1903) and \u003cb\u003eThe Golden Bowl\u003c\/b\u003e (1904). In 1905 he revisited the United States and wrote \u003cb\u003eThe American Scene\u003c\/b\u003e (1907).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDuring his career he also wrote many works of criticism and travel. Although old and ailing, he threw himself into war work in 1914, and in 1915, a few months before his death, he became a British subject. In 1916 King George V conferred the Order of Merit on him. 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