‘Sir Edmund Orme’ by Henry James
in : Black and white, Christmas issue,
25 November 1892, pages 8, 11-15
providing a Christmas ghost story for the Christmas (first?) issue of this populist periodical
The lesson of the master; The marriages; [etc.] / by Henry James. - London ; New York : Macmillan, 1892. - 302 p. ; 20 cm. – pages 266-302
contents: The lesson of the master; The marriages; The pupil; Brooksmith; The solution; Sir Edmund Orme
containing the first book publication; 2900 copies were printed in Boston, Mass. for both American and British markets (with local binding); they retailed at $1.00 (in Macmillan’s dollar novel series) and 6/- respectively from the last two weeks in February
The altar of the dead; The beast in the jungle; The birthplace; and other tales / by Henry James. - New York : Scribner’s ; London : Macmillan, 1909. - xxxii, 544 p.; 22 cm. - (The novels and tales of Henry James : New York edition ; Vol. 17) – pages 367-408
contents: The altar of the dead, The beast in the jungle, The birthplace, The private life, Owen Wingrave, The real right thing, The friends of the friends, Sir Edmund Orme, The jolly corner, Julia Bride
a further revised text appeared in James’s definitive collected edition
for subsequent reprints of this tale see the
relevant page
of my index to Henry James’s tales in collections
‘Preface’ by Henry James
in : The altar of the dead ... and other tales
(New York edition, 17), – see
above;
reprinted in : The art of the novel: critical prefaces / by Henry
James, with an introduction by Richard P. Blackmur. - New York ;
London : Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934. - xli, 348 p.;
22 cm. – pages 241-266
[more information to be added to soon – ed.]
selective bibliography and critical commentaries
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Sir Edmund Orme
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