Henry James

The Aspern Papers and Other Stories

Herausgeber: Poole, Adrian

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

As well as 'The Aspern Papers', this selection includes 'The Death of the Lion', 'The Figure in the Carpet', and 'The Birthplace'. All four stories concern the figure of the artist and the cult of celebrity. This new edition includes extracts from James's Prefaces and Notebooks that shed light on the genesis of the stories.

Produktdetails

• Oxford World's Classics
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 131mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 204g
• ISBN-13: 9780199639878
• ISBN-10: 0199639876
• Artikelnr.: 36683689

Autorenporträt

Adrian Poole has written extensively on Henry James and has edited What Maisie Knew, The American, and Washington Square for Oxford World's Classics. He is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to English Novelists (2009), The Oxford Book of Classical Verse with Jeremy Maule (1995; reissued 2000), and the author of Tragedy: a Very Short Introduction (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Note on the Texts
Select Bibliography
Chronology
'The Aspern Papers'
'The Death of the Lion'
'The Figure in the Carpet'
'The Birthplace'
Appendix 1: extracts from James's Prefaces for the New York Edition
Appendix 2: extracts from James's Notebooks
Appendix 3: stage and screen versions of 'The Aspern Papers'
Appendix 4: variant readings
Explanatory Notes