Book description
one of a series of new editions of Henry James's most famous short
stories and novels.
Henry James was born in 1843 in New York City. He attended schoold in
New York and later in London, Paris and Geneva, entering the Law
School in Harvard in 1862. In 1865 he began to contribute reviews and
short stories to American journals. In 1875 he settled for a year in
Paris, where he met Flaubert, Turgenev and other literary figures. The
next year he moved to London, but in 1898 he left to live at Lamb
House, Rye, Sussex. Henry James became an English citizen in 1915, and
died in 1916.
He wrote about twenty novels, mong which we remember Washington
Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Ambassadors and
The Golden Bowl.
Andrew Taylor is a lecturer in English Literature at the University
of Edinburgh. He is the author of Henry James and the Father
Question (2002) and co-editor of The Afterlife of John
Brown (2005). He is also co-editor of the Edinburgh Series in
Transatlantic Studies, published by Edinburgh University Press.
