I. Fiction
Daisy Miller: A Study
Brooksmith
The Real Thing
The Middle Years
The Turn of the Screw
The Beast in the Jungle
The Jolly Corner
II. Revisions
Daisy Miller: 1879 and 1909
The Portrait of a Lady: 1881 and 1908
III. Travel
From English Hours
London at Midsummer
From Italian Hours
Two Old Houses and Three Young Women
The Saint's Afternoon and Others
From The American Scene
The Bowery and Thereabouts
from Boston
France
IV. Criticism
On Whitman
brute sublimity
On Baudelaire
This is not Evil...it is simply the nasty!
From Hawthorne
No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church
On Emerson
salt is wanting
The Art of Fiction
the chamber of consciousness
Try to be one...on whom nothing is lost!
From the Question of Our Speech
Our national use of the vocal sound, in men and women alike, is slovenly
From The Lesson of Balzac
plated and burnished and bright
On Shakespeare
the absolute value of Style
From the Preface to Roderick Hudson
Really, universally, relations stop nowhere
From the Preface to The Portrait of a Lady
The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million
From the Preface to The Tragic Muse
large loose baggy monsters
V. Autobiography
The peaches d'antan
from A Small Boy and Others
The dancing teacher Madame Dubreil
from A Small Boy and Others
A daguerreotype taken by Mathew Brady
from A Small Boy and Others
The Galerie d'Apollon
from A Small Boy and Others
An obscure hurt
from Notes of a Son and Brother
The death of Minnie Temple
from Notes of a Son and Brother
At the grave of Alice James
from The Complete Notebooks
VI. Correspondence
A thirteen-year-old in Paris writes to a young friend
To Edgar Van Winkle; 1856
On the Grand Tour
To William James; October 30, 1869
Henry James, expatriate
To the James family; November 1, 1875
The literary scene in Paris
To William Dean Howells; May 28, 1876
Growing fame
To Miss Abbey Alger; November 21, 1881
The friendship with Robert Louis Stevenson
To Robert Louis Stevenson; July 31, 1888
The death of Alice James
To William James; March 8, 1892
The friendship with Hendrik C. Andersen
To Hendrik C. Andersen; February 9, 1902
To Hendrik C. Andersen; February 28, 1902
The death of William James
To Thomas Sergeant Perry; September 2, 1910
To H. G. Wells; September 11, 1910
The publication of Boon, and the break with H. G. Wells
To H. G. Wells; July 6, 1915
To H. G. Wells; July 10, 1915
VII. Definition and Description
An American encounters some aristocrats
from The American
An ambitious young Frenchwoman
from The American
Sarah Bernhardt, the muse of the newspaper
from The Comedie Francaise in London
An American education
from The Portrait of a Lady
An American is corrected on what constitutes the self
from The Portrait of a Lady
An absolutely unmarried woman
from The Bostonians
Philistine decor
from The Spils of Poynton
The really rich
from The Wings of the Dove
New York identity
from The Wings of the Dove
A Venetian majordomo
from The Wings of the Dove
Like a scene from a Maeterlinck play
from The Wings of the Dove
A private thought
from the Wings of the Dove
The seduction of Europe
from the Ambassadors
A femme du monde
from The Ambassadors
An intimate recollection of a beautiful woman
from The Golden Bowl
Colossal immodesty
from The American Scene
The individual Jew
from The American Scene
New York City Hall
from The American Scene
The absence of penetralia
from The American Scene
New York Power
from The American Scene
American teeth
from The American Scene
A young priest apart from the Roman carnival
from Italian Hours
VIII. Names
IX. Parody
Frank Moore Colby
from In Darkest James
Max Beerbohm
'The Mote in the Middle Distance,' by H*nry J*mes
X. Legacy
W.H. Auden
At the Grave of Henry James
Joseph Conrad
from Henry James: An Appreciation
T.S. Eliot
from In Memory
Graham Greene
from Henry James: The Private Universe
Ezra Pound
from Henry James
Edith Wharton
from A Backward Glance
Virginia Woolf
from Review of The Letters of Henry James
Suggestions for Further Reading
Selected Bibliography