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[HJ monogram from Macmillan 1922 editions]      Novels


The Princess Casamassima (1886) –   text of the London, 1886 three-volume first edition
The tragic muse † (1890) –   text of the London, 1891 one-volume edition
The spoils of Poynton † (1897) –   text of the London, 1897 first book edition
The awkward age † (1899) –   text of the London, 1899 first book edition
The outcry (1911) –   text of the London, 1911 first book edition
The ivory tower (uncompleted, 1914) –   text of the London, 1917 posthumous first edition



[HJ monogram from Macmillan 1922 editions]      Tales

(first UK book texts, by collection)

(titles listed here and not already available will be added as time permits)


Tales of three cities

texts of the London, 1884 edition:
 

Lady Barberina
A New England winter
The impressions of a cousin

Stories revived

texts of the London, 1885 2 vol. edition:
 

First series
The author of Beltraffio
Pandora
The path of duty
A light man
A day of days
Georgina’s reasons
A landscape-painter
Second series
A passionate pilgrim
Rose-Agathe
Poor Richard
The last of the Valerii
Master Eustace
The romance of certain old clothes
A most extraordinary case

The Aspern papers

originally 1888;
texts of the London, 1890 1 vol. edition
:
 

The Aspern papers
Louisa Pallant
The modern warning

A London life

texts of the London, 1889 1 vol. edition:
 

A London life
The Patagonia
The liar
Mrs Temperly

The lesson of the master

texts of the London, 1892 edition:
 

The lesson of the master
The marriages
The pupil
Brooksmith
The solution
Sir Edmund Orme

The real thing

texts of the London, 1893 edition:
 

The real thing
Sir Dominick Ferrand
Nona Vincent
The chaperon
Greville Fane

The private life

texts of the London, 1893 edition:
 

The private life
The wheel of time
Lord Beaupré
The visits
Collaboration
Owen Wingrave

Terminations

texts of the London, 1895 edition:
 

The death of the lion
The Coxon fund
The middle years
The altar of the dead (a trial XHTML 1.0 edition)

Embarassments

texts of the London, 1896 edition:
 

The figure in the carpet
Glasses
The next time
The way it came

In the cage

text of the London, 1898 edition:
 

In the cage

The two magics

texts of the London, 1898 edition:
 

The turn of the screw
Covering End

The soft side

texts of the London, 1900 edition:
 

The great good place
‘Europe’
Paste
The real right thing
The great condition
The tree of knowledge
The abasement of the Northmores
The given case
John Delavoy
The third person
Maud-Evelyn
Miss Gunton of Poughkeepsie

The better sort

texts of the London, 1903 edition:
 

Broken wings
The Beldonald Holbein
The two faces
The tone of time
The special type
Mrs Medwin
Flickerbridge
The story in it
The beast in the jungle
The birthplace
The papers

tales first
appearing in the

New York edition

texts of the London, 1909 edition:
 

Fordham Castle
The jolly corner
Julia Bride


The finer grain

texts of the London, 1910 edition:
 

The velvet glove
Mora Montravers
A round of visits
Crapy Cornelia
The bench of desolation

 
 




[HJ monogram from Macmillan 1922 editions]      Plays


Summersoft
(one act)
(1895) – text based on 1947 printing
The high bid
(three act)
(1907) – text based on 1947 printing
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The outcry
(three act)
(1909) – text based on 1947 printing
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[HJ monogram from Macmillan 1922 editions]      Prefaces


All the texts of the prefaces James wrote for the New York edition of his novels and tales have now been edited and are available here. In addition to being linked from the bibliographies of relevant novels and tales on the site, they have their own introduction and menu or you can select a known volume number direct from the following list:

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