Henry James: Major Stories and Essays: A Library of America College Edition

Henry James: Major Stories and Essays: A Library of America College Edition by James, Henry. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781883011758.

Henry James was the preeminent American writer of the late 19th century, a master of fiction who was also a subtle and audacious literary theorist. This volume brings together the most important of his short stories and novellas with his most significant critical writings. Selected from Library of Americas authoritative five-volume edition of Jamess complete stories, the works collected here--among them "Daisy Miller," "The Aspern Papers," "The Beast in the Jungle," "The Turn of the Screw," and "The Great Good Place"--display his astonishing creative range, encompassing social comedy and supernatural horror, acute psychological portraiture and penetrating analysis of cultural conflict. A selection of Jamess criticism includes "The Art of Fiction," his declaration of the novelists freedom, the celebrated preface to The Portrait of a Lady, and fascinating discussions of Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman, Shakespeare, and Balzac.