Henry James Letters 1843-1875 - Couverture rigide

James, Henry

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0674387805 ISBN 13 : 9780674387805

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 1974

Synopsis

Here at last is the first volume of the long-awaited edition of Henry James letters by the world’s foremost Jamesian scholar, Leon Edel.

James was a superlative letter-writer; his correspondence constitutes one of the greatest self-portraits in all literature. In this edition 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 I, the first of 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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Among his many accomplishments over some forty years devoted to James scholarship, Leon Edel was the author of the monumental five-volume Life of Henry James, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. He was Citizens Professor of English at the University of Hawai‘i.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 1974
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674387805
• ISBN 13: 9780674387805
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 489
• Éditeur: Edel Leon
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