Henry James: A Life in Letters

by Henry James

Book Overview

James's correspondents included presidents and prime ministers, painters and great ladies, actresses and bishops, and the writers Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells and Edith Wharton. This... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670885630
• ISBN13: 9780670885633
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 667 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

The best introduction to the subject

Now that the University of Nebraska Press has undertaken to publish the complete James correspondence, these one-volume samplers can be relieved of the artificial responsibility to do the impossible - that is, tell the whole story in 600 pages or less.Horne's effort suffers in comparison to Edel's by its self-imposed mandate to favor previously unpublished letters. (Personally, I found these almost invariably of lesser interest. It looks like Edel skimmed the cream.) But his cannily selected interstitial material makes it a far more rewarding reading experience. I would say this now stands as the best introduction to the subject.And for what it's worth: the Penguin Classics paperback edition is a very nice piece of manufacture - comfortably sized in dimension and font.