Author:Henry James (1843-1916)
Works
editCollections
edit- The "Collected / Collective Edition of 1883" (14 volumes, London: Macmillan & Co.)
- — Volumes were individually published, with no indication in the front matter that the volumes form a collection. Collection has no formal title.
- The Novels and Tales of Henry James (24 volumes, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907–1909)
- — 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 Uniform Tales of Henry James
- — Several of James' longer short stories, novellas and a short novel, published as individually bound volumes. In all but one case, the text follows that of the "New York Edition". The exception is the story "Glasses", which did not appear in the "New York Edition", and was revised for The Uniform Tales by James.
- The Novels and Stories of Henry James (35 volumes, London: Macmillan & Co, 1921–1923)
- — The first major collection of James's fiction after his death.
Novels
edit- 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)
- 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) Project Gutenberg
- The Ivory Tower (unfinished, published posthumously 1917)
- The Sense of the Past (unfinished, published posthumously 1917)
Stories
editStory collections
editJames' 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.
The following are story collections published in James' lifetime. Also included are a few cases where a story was published individually in book form. The publishers and dates refer to the first editions.
- 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: A Study (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, Pandora, Georgina's Reasons, The Path of Duty, Four Meetings (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 Beaupré, The Visits, Collaboration, Owen Wingrave (London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., June 1893)
- The Private Life, Lord Beaupré, 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)
The following are collections (or individually published stories) published posthumously (i.e. after 1916) but before 1923 (and therefore in the public domain):
- Gabrielle de Bergerac (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1918)
- A Landscape Painter (New York: Scott and Seltzer, 1919)
- Travelling Companions (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919)
- Master Eustace (New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1920)
Individual stories
edit"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 "Théodolinde") — "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; also published as "Cousin Maria") — "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 Beaupré" (1892; also published as "Lord Beauprey") — "The Visits" (1892; also published as "The Visit") — "Sir Dominick Ferrand" (1892; also published as "Jersey Villas") — "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 Special Type" (1900) — "The Tree of Knowledge" (1900) — "The Abasement of the Northmores" (1900) — "The Third Person" (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)
Apocrypha
editIn 2004, Floyd R. Horowitz published The Uncollected Henry James: Newly Discovered Stories, a collection of short stories published in magazines between 1852 and 1869, which Horowitz claimed, on the grounds of lexicographic analyses, to have been authored by James and published anonymously or pseudonymously. Horowitz's work did not attain scholarly acceptance, and the works listed below are not generally attributed to James:
"The Pair of Slippers" (1852) — "Woman's Influence; or, Incidents of a Courtship" (1858) — "The Rainy Day (Graves)" (1859) — "The Village Belle" (1859) — "The Sacrifice" (1859) — "The Rose-Colored Silk" (1860) — "A Winter Story" (1861) — "Sober Second Thought" (1861) — "Alone" (1861) — "The Death of Colonel Thoureau" (1861) — "The Story of a Ribbon Bow" (1862) — "A Summer Adventure" (1862) — "My Guardian and I" (1862) — "Breach of Promise of Marriage" (1862) — "A Sealed Tear" (1863) — "'I;' or, Summer in the City" (1863) — "The Sprite Transformed" (1863) — "The Blue Handkerchief" (1863) — "A Cure for Coquettes" (1863) — "My Lost Darling" (1863) — "One Evening's Work" (1865) — "Unto the Least of These" (1866) — "In a Circus" (1868) — "A Hasty Marriage" (1869)
Plays
editPlay collections
editThe following are play collections and individual plays published in book form in James' lifetime.
- Daisy Miller: A Comedy (Boston: James R. Osgood & Co., 1883)
- Theatricals: Two Comedies (1894)
- Theatricals: Second Series (1895)
These were published posthumously:
- Edel, Leon (ed.) (1949), The Complete Plays of Henry James (Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Company).
- —Still under copyright; copyright renewed 23 March 1977.
- Edel, Leon (ed.) (1960), Guy Domville (Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Co.)
- — Still under copyright; copyright renewed 20 July 1988.
Individual plays
editThese are individual plays and play fragments written by James. Most were never published in James' lifetime, though some were privately printed in small runs.
Pyramus and Thisbe — Still Waters — A Change of Heart — Daisy Miller: A Comedy — The American: A Comedy in Four Acts — Tenants — Disengaged — The Album — The Reprobate — Note for The Chaperon — Guy Domville — Summersoft — The High Bid — Rough Statement For Three Acts Founded on The Chaperon — The Saloon — The Other House — The Outcry — Monologue Written for Ruth Draper
Travel essays
editTravel essay collections
edit- Transatlantic Sketches (1875)
- 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)
Individual travel essays
edit"London" — "Browning in Westminster Abbey" — "Chester" — "Lichfield and Warwick" — "North Devon" — "Wells and Salisbury" — "An English Easter" — "London at Midsummer" — "Two Excursions" (also published as "Three 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" — "The Picture Season in London"
Literary essays
editLiterary essay collections
edit- French Poets and Novelists (1878)
- Notes on Novelists (1914)
Individual literary essays
edit- "The Novels of George Eliot" in The Atlantic Monthly, 18 (108) (October, 1866)
- Théophile Gautier (1873)
- Mérimée's Letters (1874)
- Ivan Turgénieff (1874)
- Honoré de Balzac (1875)
- The Two Ampères (1875)
- Madame de Sabran (1875)
- Charles Baudelaire (1876)
- Charles de Bernard and Gustave Flaubert (1876)
- Alfred de Musset (1877)
- Balzac's Letters (1877)
- George Sand (1877)
- The Théâtre Français (1877)
- Hawthorne (1879)
- "Coquelin" (Century Magazine, 1887)
- "Daumier, Caricaturist" (Century Magazine, 1890)
- "Ivan Turgeneff" (Library of the World's Best Literature, 1897; also "Ivan Turgenev")
Autobiography
edit- A Small Boy and Others (1913)
- Notes of a Son and Brother (1914)
- The Middle Years (unfinished, published posthumously 1917)
Biography
edit- William Wetmore Story and His Friends (1903)
- "Rupert Brooke", the Preface to Letters from America (1916)
Visual arts criticism
edit- Picture and Text (1893)
Letters
edit- The Letters of Henry James (1920) (edited by Percy Lubbock
- Vol 1. (external scan)
- Vol 2. (transcription project)
Works about James
edit- Howells, William Dean (1882), "Henry James, Jr." in The Century 25(1): 24–29.
- Conrad, Joseph (1905), "Henry James: An Appreciation" in The North American Review 180(1) (January 1905): 102–108.
- Conrad, Joseph (1905) " " in The Literary Digest 30(6) (February 1905): 198–199.
- —Extract from "Henry James: An Appreciation"
- Van Doren, Carl Clinton (1921), "Henry James" in The American Novel: 188–220.
- "James, Henry," in The Nuttall Encyclopædia, (ed.) by James Wood, London: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd. (1907)
- "James, Henry," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "James, Henry," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1927 supplement, London: Oxford University Press (1927)
- "James, Henry," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "James, Henry," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
- “Henry James,” poem by Florence Earle Coates (1916)
- Henry James, a biography by Rebecca West (1916) (external scan)
- Edmund Gosse, c. B. (1920): "Henry James" in Scribner's Magazine, Vol 67
- "James, Henry (novelist)," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "James, Henry," in Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed., 1922)
- "A Few Notes upon Mr. James" by in The Yellow Book, 7 (1895), pp. 71–83
- "Henry James: The American Scene" in The Dial, by Van Wyck Brooks
On his works
edit- "Ambassadors, The," by Edith J. R. Isaacs in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Bostonians, The," in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Daisy Miller," by Edith J. R. Isaacs in The Encyclopedia Americana, New York: The Encyclopedia Americana Corporation (1920)
- "Daisy Miller," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
Parodies of James
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Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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