The Daily Henry James: A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master

The Daily Henry James: A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master

The Daily Henry James: A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master

The Daily Henry James: A Year of Quotes from the Work of the Master

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Overview

A strange and delightful memento of one of the most lasting literary voices of all time, The Daily Henry James is a little book from a great mind. First published with James’s approval in 1911 as the ultimate token of fandom—a limited edition quote-of-the-day collection titled The Henry James Year Book—this new edition is a gift across time, arriving as we mark the centenary of his death. Drawing on the Master’s novels, essays, reviews, plays, criticism, and travelogues, The Daily Henry James offers a series of impressions (for if not of impressions, of what was James fond?) to carry us through the year.

From the deepest longings of Isabel Archer to James’s insights in The Art of Fiction, longer seasonal quotes introduce each month, while concise bits of wisdom and whimsy mark each day. To take but one example: Isabel, in a quote from The Portrait of a Lady for September 30, muses, “She gave an envious thought to the happier lot of men, who are always free to plunge into the healing waters of action.” Featuring a new foreword by James biographer Michael Gorra as well as the original introductions by James and his good friend William Dean Howells, this long-forgotten perennial calendar will be an essential bibelot for James’s most ardent devotees and newest converts alike, a treasure to be cherished daily, across all seasons, for years, for ages to come.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780226408545
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/19/2016
Series: A Year of Quotes
Pages: 208
Product dimensions: 7.20(w) x 4.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Henry James (1843-1916) is among the most widely read and beloved American writers. Among his best-known works are the novels The Portrait of a Lady, Washington Square, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, The Aspern Papers, and The Turn of the Screw. Among his many nonfiction works are The Art of Criticism and The Art of the Novel, both available from the University of Chicago Press.

Date of Birth:

April 15, 1843

Date of Death:

February 28, 1916

Place of Birth:

New York, New York

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Attended school in France and Switzerland; Harvard Law School, 1862-63

Table of Contents

Foreword by Colm Tóibín
Introduction by Richard P. Blackmur
I. Preface to “Roderick Hudson”
II. Preface to “The American”
III. Preface to “The Portrait of a Lady”
IV. Preface to “The Princess Casamassima”
V. Preface to “The Tragic Muse”
VI. Preface to “The Awkward Age”
VII. Preface to “The Spoils of Poynton”
VIII. Preface to “What Maisie Knew”
IX. Preface to “The Aspern Papers”
X. Preface to “The Reverberator”
XI. Preface to “Lady Barbarina”
XII. Preface to “The Lesson of the Master”
XIII. Preface to “The Author of Beltraffio”
XIV. Preface to “The Altar of the Dead”
XV. Preface to “Daisy Miller”
XVI. Preface to “The Wings of the Dove”
XVII. Preface to “The Ambassadors”
XVIII. Preface to “The Golden Bowl”
 

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