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Henry James: Complete Stories 1884–1891

“The Aspern Papers” | “The Liar” | “The Lesson of the Master” | 14 other stories More

Edited by Edward Said

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“In these…brilliant stories, we observe his growing understanding of what he would later call the mystery of art, grounded, as it must be, in an ever-deepening comprehension of the infinitely…challenging mysteries of human personality and interrelationship.”
— Hudson Review

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Sometimes overshadowed by his work as a novelist, Henry James’s short fiction is an astonishing achievement, a triumph of inventiveness and restless curiosity. This Library of America volume (the third of five volumes devoted to his short fiction) includes among its seventeen stories some of James’s greatest masterpieces.

“The Aspern Papers” is a stunning novella about emotional ruthlessness in the service of literary scholarship. “The Pupil” is a densely suggestive account of the moral perplexities underlying the relationship between an impoverished tutor and a young invalid. “The Lesson of the Master” is an intricate study of ambition, disappointment, and the demands of a life devoted to art. “Brooksmith” is a moving portrait of a house servant and “Sir Edmund Orme” is an enthralling ghost story.

In “The Liar,” a painter attempts to force a former love to admit that her present husband is a pathological liar; in “The Patagonia,” a young man cavalierly flirts with a young woman en route to her wedding in England, with disastrous consequences.

More than half the stories within this volume are available in no other edition.

Edward Said (1935–2003), volume editor, was University Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and the author of many books, including Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism, and The World, The Text and the Critic.

This Library of America series edition is printed on acid-free paper and features Smyth-sewn binding, a full cloth cover, and a ribbon marker.

Henry James: Complete Stories 1884–1891 is kept in print by a gift from the Geoffrey C. Hughes Foundation to the Guardians of American Letters Fund.
Table of Contents

Georgina’s Reasons
A New England Winter
The Path of Duty
Mrs. Temperly
Louisa Pallant
The Aspern Papers
The Liar
The Modern Warning
A London Life
The Lesson of the Master
The Patagonia
The Solution
The Pupil
Brooksmith
The Marriages
The Chaperon
Sir Edmund Orme

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ISBN: 978-1-88301164-2 904 pages

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N° 107 Library of America Series

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