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 Portable Henry James provides an unparalleled range of this great body of work- seven major tales, including Daisy Miller, The Turn of the Screw, "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. For 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.

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The Portable Henry JamesIntroduction Chronology Acknowledgments I. Fiction Daisy Miller: A Study "Brooksmith" "The Real Thing" "The Middle Years" The Turn of the Screw "The Beast in the Jungle "The Jolly Corner" II. Revisions Daisy Miller: 1879 and 1909 The Portrait of a Lady: 1881 and 1908 III. Travel From English Hours "London at Midsummer" From Italian Hours "Two Old Houses and Three Young Women" "The Saint's Afternoon and Others" From The American Scene "The Bowery and Thereabouts" from "Boston" "France" IV. Criticism On Whitman "brute sublimity" On Baudelaire "This is not Evil...it is simply the nasty!" From Hawthorne "No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church" On Emerson "salt is wanting" "The Art of Fiction" "the chamber of consciousness" "Try to be one...on whom nothing is lost!" From "the Question of Our Speech" "Our national use of the vocal sound, in men and women alike, is slovenly" From "The Lesson of Balzac" "plated and burnished and bright" On Shakespeare the "absolute value of Style" From the Preface to Roderick Hudson "Really, universally, relations stop nowhere" From the Preface to The Portrait of a Lady "The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million" From the Preface to The Tragic Muse "large loose baggy monsters" V. Autobiography The peaches d'antan from A Small Boy and Others The dancing teacher Madame Dubreil from A Small Boy and Others A daguerreotype taken by Mathew Brady from A Small Boy and Others The Galerie d'Apollon from A Small Boy and Others An obscure hurt from Notes of a Son and Brother The death of Minnie Temple from Notes of a Son and Brother At the grave of Alice James from The Complete Notebooks VI. Correspondence A thirteen-year-old in Paris writes to a young friend To Edgar Van Winkle; 1856 On the Grand Tour To William James; October 30, 1869 Henry James, expatriate To the James family; November 1, 1875 The literary scene in Paris To William Dean Howells; May 28, 1876 Growing fame To Miss Abbey Alger; November 21, 1881 The friendship with Robert Louis Stevenson To Robert Louis Stevenson; July 31, 1888 The death of Alice James To William James; March 8, 1892 The friendship with Hendrik C. Andersen To Hendrik C. Andersen; February 9, 1902 To Hendrik C. Andersen; February 28, 1902 The death of William James To Thomas Sergeant Perry; September 2, 1910 To H. G. Wells; September 11, 1910 The publication of Boon, and the break with H. G. Wells To H. G. Wells; July 6, 1915 To H. G. Wells; July 10, 1915 VII. Definition and Description An American encounters some aristocrats from The American An ambitious young Frenchwoman from The American Sarah Bernhardt, the muse of the newspaper from "The Comedie Francaise in London" An American education from The Portrait of a Lady An American is corrected on what constitutes "the self" from The Portrait of a Lady An absolutely unmarried woman from The Bostonians Philistine decor from The Spils of Poynton The really rich from The Wings of the Dove New York identity from The Wings of the Dove A Venetian majordomo from The Wings of the Dove Like a scene from a Maeterlinck play from The Wings of the Dove A private thought from the Wings of the Dove The seduction of Europe from the Ambassadors A femme du monde from The Ambassadors An intimate recollection of a beautiful woman from The Golden Bowl Colossal immodesty from The American Scene The individual Jew from The American Scene New York City Hall from The American Scene The absence of penetralia from The American Scene New York Power from The American Scene American teeth from The American Scene A young priest apart from the Roman carnival from Italian Hours VIII. Names IX. Parody Frank Moore Colby from "In Darkest James" Max Beerbohm " 'The Mote in the Middle Distance,' by H*nry J*mes" X. Legacy W.H. Auden "At the Grave of Henry James" Joseph Conrad from "Henry James: An Appreciation" T.S. Eliot from "In Memory" Graham Greene from "Henry James: The Private Universe" Ezra Pound from "Henry James" Edith Wharton from A Backward Glance Virginia Woolf from "Review of The Letters of Henry James" Suggestions for Further Reading Selected Bibliography