The Letters of Henry James, Volume I: 1843-1875

by Henry James and James Henry

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674387805
• ISBN13: 9780674387805
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 489 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.8" x 8.6"