Henry James Letters: Volume I, 1843–1875
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few windows into a literary genius are as intimate or as revealing as a collection of personal correspondence, and Henry James Letters: Volume I, 1843–1875 opens those shutters wide. This first volume in the landmark four-volume series, meticulously compiled and edited by the pre-eminent James scholar Leon Edel, chronicles the formative decades of one of Anglo-American literature's most towering intellects — from his childhood years through his early adult life, tracing his development as a writer, traveller, and keen observer of both Old World Europe and the nascent cultural landscape of America. Edel, himself a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of James, presents the letters with authoritative editorial precision, offering contextual notes and introductions that illuminate each missive as a biographical artefact. The correspondence reveals James as he truly was in private — witty, perceptive, emotionally nuanced, and possessed of a prose style so distinctive it reads less like letter-writing and more like literature in its own right. Readers who believe they know James through his novels and novellas will find here a portrait that is at once more vulnerable and more brilliant — and the question of how this sensitive young man became the Master of psychological realism is one this volume answers with extraordinary grace.
Author: Henry James (Edited By Leon Edel)
Format: Hardback
Published: 1974, Macmillan
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Few windows into a literary genius are as intimate or as revealing as a collection of personal correspondence, and Henry James Letters: Volume I, 1843–1875 opens those shutters wide. This first volume in the landmark four-volume series, meticulously compiled and edited by the pre-eminent James scholar Leon Edel, chronicles the formative decades of one of Anglo-American literature's most towering intellects — from his childhood years through his early adult life, tracing his development as a writer, traveller, and keen observer of both Old World Europe and the nascent cultural landscape of America. Edel, himself a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of James, presents the letters with authoritative editorial precision, offering contextual notes and introductions that illuminate each missive as a biographical artefact. The correspondence reveals James as he truly was in private — witty, perceptive, emotionally nuanced, and possessed of a prose style so distinctive it reads less like letter-writing and more like literature in its own right. Readers who believe they know James through his novels and novellas will find here a portrait that is at once more vulnerable and more brilliant — and the question of how this sensitive young man became the Master of psychological realism is one this volume answers with extraordinary grace.