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The most extensive collection of Henry James's autobiographical writings ever published offers a revelatory self-portrait from one of America's supreme novelists and his famous family. In 1911, deeply affected by the death of his brother William the year before, Henry James began working on a book about his early life. As was customary for James in his later years, he dictated his recollections to his secretary Theodora Bosanquet, who recalled...

Regarded by many as Henry James's finest work, and a lucid tragedy exploring the distance between money and happiness, The Portrait of a Lady contains an introduction by Philip Horne in Penguin Classics. When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own f...

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- I. THE AUTHOR AND HIS WORK: THE PROBLEM AND THE SCHOLARSHIP -- II. THE MAN AND THE NOVELIST -- III. THE MINISTER AND THE NOVELIST -- IV. THE TRANSITION FROM MINISTER TO NOVELIST -- V. THE NOVEL: FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE BIRTH AND THE MISNAMING OF TRISTRAM SHANDY -- VI. THE NOVEL: FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE FINAL COMMENT OF YORICK -- CONCLUSION -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Backmatter

Edited by Susie Boyt, this classic James tale is considered one of the most famous ghost stories of all time. Also includes a collection of his short stories which explore human psychology through the uncanny.

Examines the range of challenges in general obstetrics, medical complications of pregnancy, prenatal diagnosis, fetal disease, and management of labor and delivery. This title presents an evidence-based approach to the available management options, equipping you with the appropriate strategy for each patient.

A new edition of Henry James's classic novel featuring a new afterword.Milly Theale, an American heiress in London, is young, hungry for life, and terminally ill. There she meets the dazzling beauty Kate Croy. Unbeknownst to Milly, Kate is madly in love with an old acquaintance of hers, Merton Densher, a young journalist who has everything a woman could want—except money. Intensely aware of her new friend's fate and coveting her fortune, Kate ...

Bringing together both established and emerging scholars of the long nineteenth century, literary modernism, landscape and hemispheric studies, and contemporary fiction, 'New Versions of Pastoral' offers a historically wide-ranging account of the Bucolic tradition, tracing the formal diversity of pastoral writing up to the present day. Dividing its analytic focus between periods, the volume contextualizes a wide range of exemplary practitioner...