{"product_id":"2026100009148-secondhand-henry-james-letters-volume-i-1843-1875","title":"Henry James Letters: Volume I, 1843–1875","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Worn\/faded, no tears\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew 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.\n\nEdel, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49309673029851,"sku":"2026100009148-SECONDHAND","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/2c4e7500-6702-410d-9eb0-e8de15cf9ce0.png?v=1789455055","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009148-secondhand-henry-james-letters-volume-i-1843-1875","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}