The Jolly Corner and Other Tales, 1903–1910

This scholarly edition includes the final ten stories Henry James wrote, and provides extensive textual history and wide-ranging notes.

Henry James (Author), N. H. Reeve (Edited by)

9781107002753, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 21 September 2017

688 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 4.2 cm, 1.12 kg

'It is extraordinary how little attention has been given to James's texts, other than by James himself, and this is what the thirty-four volumes of CFHJ [The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James] set out to correct.' Francis Wilson, The Times Literary Supplement

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. The Jolly Corner and Other Tales, 1903–1910 includes the final ten stories James wrote. Many involve satirical critiques of an increasingly narcissistic, acquisitive society - from 'The Papers', with its attack on celebrity culture, to 'The Birthplace', offering a sardonic view of the Shakespeare industry, and 'A Round of Visits', which conducts a horrified tour through selfishness and swindling in early twentieth-century New York. The title story itself was in James's own view 'a miraculous masterpiece in the line of the fantastic-gruesome, the supernatural-thrilling … the best thing of this sort I've ever done'. With its extensive textual history and wide-ranging notes, this volume will interest not only James scholars, but all students of early twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and culture.

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
General editors' preface
General chronology of James's life and writings
Introduction
Textual introduction
Chronology of composition and production
Bibliography
The Jolly Corner and Other Tales
Glossary of foreign words and phrases
Notes
Textual variants
Emendations
Appendix A: entries in James's notebooks
Appendix B: extracts from prefaces to the New York edition.

Subject Areas: Classic fiction [pre c 1945 FC], Literary reference works [DSR], Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers [DSK], Literary studies: from c 1900 - [DSBH]