“This latest volume of the Complete Letters represents, no less than its forebears, an inestimable contribution to readers hitherto obliged to hunt down James’s letters in various selections or scattered archives, and deserves to be greeted with the same jubilant chorus of praise and gratitude.”-Alicia Rix, Times Literary Supplement

These are richly enthralling letters.”-Peter Kemp, Sunday Times (London) was also one of the most entertaining-and prolific-correspondents. “Rippling through these letters are the first imaginative stirrings of one of the greatest fiction and travel writers in the language. extraordinary resources.”-John Carlos Rowe, Resource for American Literary Study These new volumes of The Complete Letters of Henry James deserve our admiration for their scholarly rigor and the teamwork required not only of the volume editors and Michael Anesko but also of the associate editors, editorial assistants, and advisory group of this monumental project. “Michael Anesko’s superb introduction to both volumes places James’s letters in these crucial years in the context of James’s literary works and the broader social history in which they were produced.

She is the author of In the Company of Books: Literature and Its “Classes” in Nineteenth-Century America. Sarah Wadsworth is a professor of English at Marquette University. Katie Sommer has been associate editor of the Complete Letters of Henry James series since 2007 and has worked on the Henry James letters project since 2001. He is editor of the Henry James Review and of A Companion to Henry James. Zacharias is a professor of English and the director of the Center for Henry James Studies at Creighton University. He is a general editor of The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James and the author of Henry James Framed: Material Representations of the Master (Nebraska, 2022), among others. Michael Anesko is a professor of English and American Studies at Pennsylvania State University. He wrote some two dozen novels, including The Portrait of a Lady and The Golden Bowl, and left behind more than ten thousand letters. Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author and literary critic.

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