Henry James is well known as the author of magnificent novels such as
The Portrait of a Lady,
Washington Square, and
The Wings of the Dove. But at the same time as writing over twenty full-length novels he also produced over a hundred short stories. And it has to be said that most of them are not so short - some of them stretching to the form of novellas or even short novels - such as
The Turn of the Screw and
The Aspern Papers. His collection of the
Complete Tales runs to twelve handsome volumes - and if you ever spot volumes nine and ten in the Rupert Hart-Davis hardback edition of 1963 I will pay you good money for them. Coming forwards half a century I've spent much of this year writing tutorials on the lesser-known tales, and can report that there are some undiscovered gems amongst them and hardly a dud in sight. There are still a couple to be finished off, but one hundred and three, with story synopses, study resources, critical commentaries, illustrations, and suggestions for further reading are now available
here.
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Hi, do you know if the mantex website with literary commentaries and tutorials will be back again soon? I hope so because it was really helpful especially for my research on Henry James. Thank you.
Hi, do you know if the mantex website with literary commentaries and tutorials will be back again soon? I hope so because it was really helpful especially for my research on Henry James. Thank you.
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