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Henry James: Complete Stories 1874-1884
The nineteen stories in Complete Stories 1874-1884 include some of his most famous explorations of the international theme, such as "Daisy Miller", the unforgettable portrayal of an innocent American girl at odds with European mores; "An International Episode" and "Lady Barbarina", satirically probing tales of English aristocrats and the Ameri...more
Hardcover, 924 pages
Published
January 11th 1999
by Library of America
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Henry James’s Complete Stories: 1874-1884 is the second of five volumes of James’s short stories published in the Library of America. Even more than in the first volume, the stories are characterized by a set of dualities: social convention v. personal freedom, beatific life v. death, parochialism v. cosmopolitanism, unrequited love v. passion, and so forth. There are, however, few happy endings, in part because James presents a complex view of reality in which human desires seldom triumph. W...more
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