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The Letters of Henry James

1875-1883 Volume II

By (author) Henry James
Edited by Leon Edel
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., United States
Imprint: The Belknap Press
Published: 1st Jan 1975
Dimensions: w 140mm h 210mm d 38mm
Weight: 771g
ISBN-10: 0674387813
ISBN-13: 9780674387812
Barcode No: 9780674387812
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In this, the second volume of Leon Edel's superb edition of the letters, we see Henry James in his thirties, pursuing his writing in Paris and London and finding his first literary successes in Daisy Miller and The Portrait of a Lady. The letters of these years, describing for family and friends in Boston the expatriate's days, reveal the usual wit and sophistication, but there is a new tone: James is relentlessly building a personal career and begins to see himself as a professional writer. Few other letters so fully document the process of an artist in the making. James was a social success in London: in Mr. Edel's words, "England speedily opened its arms to him, as it does to anyone who is at ease with the world." The letters of this period pull us into the atmosphere of Victorian England, its drawing rooms, manors, and clubs, and James's keen American eyes give us views of this world probably unique in our literary annals. He used these observations to forge his great international theme, the confrontation of the Old and New Worlds.

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