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Henry James (1843–1916)

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Henry James

Works

Collections

• The Novels and Tales of Henry James (24 volumes, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907–09)

  —Commonly known as the "New York Edition". James supervised the publication of this collection, including heavily revising many of his works. This is therefore considered an authoritative collection, and contains what are regarded as the canonical texts of the great majority of his novels and stories.

• The Novels and Stories of Henry James (35 volumes, London: Macmillan & Co, 1921)

  —The first major collection of James’s fiction after his death

Novels

• Watch and Ward (1871)
• Roderick Hudson (1875)
• The American (1877)
• The Europeans (1878)
• Confidence (1879)
• Washington Square (1880)
• The Portrait of a Lady (1881)
• The Bostonians (1886)
• The Princess Casamassima (1886)
• The Reverberator (1888)
• The Tragic Muse (1890)
• An International Episode (1892)
• The Other House (1896)
• The Spoils of Poynton (1897)
• What Maisie Knew (1897)
• The Awkward Age (1899)
• The Sacred Fount (1901)
• The Wings of the Dove (1902)
• The Ambassadors (1903)
• The Golden Bowl (1904)
• The Outcry (1911)
• The Ivory Tower (unfinished, published posthumously 1917)
• The Sense of the Past (unfinished, published posthumously 1917)

Stories

Story collections

James' stories were usually published first in a magazine serialisation, and then later collected into book form. Generally each story was published in collection into both the English and American markets: early in James' career, the collections published into the two markets differed; later they converged.

These are story collections published in James' lifetime. Also included are a few cases where a story was published individually in book form.

• A Passionate Pilgrim and Other Tales (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1875)
• The Madonna of the Future and other tales (2 volumes, London: Macmillan, 1879)
• Daisy Miller: A Study, An International Episode, Four Meetings (London: Macmillan, 1879)
• Daisy Miller (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1879)
• An International Episode (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1879)
• The Diary of a Man of Fifty and A Bundle of Letters (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1880)
• Washington Square, The Pension Beaurepas, A Bundle of Letters (2 volumes, London: Macmillan, 1881)
• The Siege of London, The Pension Beaurepas, and The Point of View (Boston: J.R. Osgood, 1883.)
• An International Episode, The Pension Beaurepas, The Point of View (London: Macmillan, 1883)
• The Siege of London, Madame De Mauves (London: Macmillan, 1883)
• Tales of Three Cities (London: Macmillan, 1884; Boston: James R Osgood, 1884)
• The Author of Beltraffio (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1885)
• Stories Revived (2 volumes, London: Macmillan, 1885)
• A London Life, The Patagonia, The Liar, Mrs. Temperly (London and New York: Macmillan, 1889)
• The Aspern Papers, Louisa Pallant, The Modern Warning (London and New York: Macmillan, 1888)
• The Lesson of the Master (London and New York: Macmillan, 1892)
• The Real Thing and Other Tales (London and New York: Macmillan, 1893)
• The Private Life, The Wheel of Time, Lord Beauprýý, The Visits, Collaboration, Owen Wingrave (London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., June 1893)
• The Private Life, Lord Beauprýý, The Visits (New York: Harper and Brothers, August 1893)
• The Wheel of Time, Collaboration, Owen Wingrave (New York: Harper and Brothers, September 1893)
• Terminations (London: William Heinemann, May 1895; New York: Harper and Brothers, June 1895)
• Embarrassments (London: William Heinemann, June 1896; New York: Macmillan Company, June 1896)
• The Two Magics (London: William Heinemann, October 1898; New York: Macmillan Company, October 1898)
• In the Cage (London: Duckworth & Co., August 1898; Chicago and New York: Herbert S. Stone & Co., September 1898)
• The Soft Side (London: Methuen & Co., August 30, 1900; New York: Macmillan Co., September 1900)
• The Better Sort (London: Methuen & Co., February 26, 1903; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, February 26, 1903)
• Julie Bride (New York: Harper and Brothers, September 1909)
• The Finer Grain (London, Methuen & Co., Ltd., October 13 1910; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, October 6, 1910)

Individual stories

"A Tragedy of Error" (1864) — "The Story of a Year" (1865) — "A Landscape Painter" (1866) — "A Day of Days" (1866) — "My Friend Bingham" (1867) — "Poor Richard" (1867) — "The Story of a Masterpiece" (1868) — "The Romance of Certain Old Clothes" (1868) — "A Most Extraordinary Case" (1868) — "A Problem" (1868) — "De Grey: A Romance" (1868) — "Osborne's Revenge" (1868) — "A Light Man" (1869) — "Gabrielle de Bergerac" (1869) — "Travelling Companions" (1870) — "A Passionate Pilgrim" (1871) — "At Isella" (1871) — "Master Eustace" (1871) — "Guest's Confession" (1872) — "The Madonna of the Future" (1873) — "The Sweetheart of M. Briseux" (1873) — "The Last of the Valerii" (1874) — "Madame De Mauves" (1874) — "Adina" (1874) — "Professor Fargo" (1874) — "Eugene Pickering" (1874) — "Benvolio" (1875) — "Crawford's Consistency" (1876) — "The Ghostly Rental" (1876) — "Four Meetings" (1877) — "Rose-Agathe" (1878; also published as "Theodolinde") — "Daisy Miller: A Study" (1878) — "Longstaff's Marriage" (1878) — "An International Episode" (1878–9) — "The Pension Beaurepas" (1879) — "The Diary of a Man of Fifty" (1879) — "A Bundle of Letters" (1879) — "The Point of View" (1882) — "The Siege of London" (1883) — "The Impressions of a Cousin" (1883) — "Lady Barberina" (1884) — "Pandora" (1884) — "The Author of 'Beltraffio'" (1884) — "Georgina's Reasons" (1884) — "A New England Winter" (1884) — "The Path of Duty" (1884) — "Mrs. Temperly" (1887) — "Louisa Pallant" (1888) — "The Aspern Papers" (1888) — "The Liar" (1888) — "The Modern Warning" (1888; also published as "Two Countries") — "A London Life" (1888) — "The Lesson of the Master" (1888) — "The Patagonia" (1888) — "The Solution" (1889) — "The Pupil" (1891) — "Brooksmith" (1891) — "The Marriages" (1891) — "The Chaperon" (1891) — "Sir Edmund Orme" (1891) — "Nona Vincent" (1892) — "The Real Thing" (1892) — "The Private Life" (1892) — "Lord Beauprýý" (1892) — "The Visits" (1892; also published "The Visit") — "Sir Dominick Ferrand" (1892) — "Greville Fane" (1892) — "Collaboration" (1892) — "Owen Wingrave" (1892) — "The Wheel of Time" (1892–3) — "The Middle Years" (1893) — "The Death of the Lion" (1894) — "The Coxon Fund" (1894) — "The Altar of the Dead" (1895) — "The Next Time" (1895) — "Glasses" (1896) — "The Figure in the Carpet" (1896) — "The Way It Came" (1896) — "The Turn of the Screw" (1898) — "Covering End" (1898) — "In the Cage" (1898) — "John Delavoy" (1898) — "The Given Case" (1898) — "'Europe'" (1899) — "The Great Condition" (1899) — "The Real Right Thing" (1899) — "Paste" (1899) — "The Great Good Place" (1900) — "Maud-Evelyn" (1900) — "Miss Gunton of Poughkeepsie" (1900) — "The Tree of Knowledge" (1900) — "The Abasement of the Northmores" (1900) — "The Third Person" (1900) — "The Special Type" (1900) — "The Tone of Time" (1900) — "Broken Wings" (1900) — "The Two Faces" (1900; also published as "The Faces") — "Mrs. Medwin" (1901) — "The Beldonald Holbein" (1901) — "The Story in It" (1902) — "Flickerbridge" (1902) — "The Birthplace" (1903) — "The Beast in the Jungle" (1903) — "The Papers" (1903) — "Fordham Castle" (1904) — "Julia Bride" (1908) — "The Jolly Corner" (1909) — "The Velvet Glove" (1909) — "Mora Montravers" (1909) — "Crapy Cornelia" (1909) — "The Bench of Desolation" (1909) — "A Round of Visits" (1910)

Essays

Essay collections

• Transatlantic Sketches (1875)
• French Poets and Novelists (1878)
• Hawthorne (1879)
• Portraits of Places (1883)
• A Little Tour in France (1884)
• Foreign Parts (1884)
• Partial Portraits (1888)
• Essays in London and Elsewhere (1893)
• English Hours (1905)
• The American Scene (1907)
• Italian Hours (1909)
• Notes on Novelists (1914)

Individual essays

"London" — "Browning in Westminster Abbey" — "Chester" — "Lichfield and Warwick" — "North Devon" — "Wells and Salisbury" — "An English Easter" — "London at Midsummer" — "Two Excursions" — "In Warwickshire" — "Abbeys and Castles" — "English Vignettes" — "An English New Year" — "The New Year in England" — "An English Watering Place" — "Winchelsea, Rye and 'Dennis Duval'" — "Old Suffolk" — "London Sights" — "The Oxford-Cambridge Boat-Race" — "The Suburbs of London" — "London in the Dead Season" — "In Scotland" — "The Question of the Mind" — "Refugees in England" — "Within the Rim" — "The Long Wards" — "New England: An Autumn Impression" — "New York Revisited" — "New York and the Hudson: A Spring Impression" — "New York: Social Notes" — "The Sense of Newport" — "Boston" — "Philadelphia" — "Baltimore" — "Washington" — "Richmond" — "Lake George" — "From Lake George to Burlington" — "Saratoga" — "Newport" — "Quebec" — "Niagara" — "Americans Abroad" —

Autobiography

• A Small Boy and Others (1913)
• Notes of a Son and Brother (1914)
• The Middle Years (unfinished, published posthumously 1917)

Plays

• Theatricals (1894)
• Theatricals: Second Series (1895)
• Guy Domville (1895)

Biography

• William Wetmore Story and His Friends (1903)

Visual arts criticism

• Picture and Text (1893)

About

• “James, Henry” in The Nuttall Encyclopædia by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1907.
• “James, Henry” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “James, Henry,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914.
• “Henry James,” poem by Florence Earle Coates (1916)
• “James, Henry (novelist)” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “James, Henry,” Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.), 1922.

On his works

• “Ambassadors, The” by Edith J. R. Isaacs  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Bostonians, The” in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Daisy Miller” by Edith J. R. Isaacs  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1916, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.