The Jolly Corner and Other Tales, 1903–1910 The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James Series

The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. The Jolly Corner and Other Tales, 1903?1910 includes the final ten stories James wrote. Many involve satirical critiques of an increasingly narcissistic, acquisitive society - from 'The Papers', with its attack on celebrity culture, to 'The Birthplace', offering a sardonic view of the Shakespeare industry, and 'A Round of Visits', which conducts a horrified tour through selfishness and swindling in early twentieth-century New York. The title story itself was in James's own view 'a miraculous masterpiece in the line of the fantastic-gruesome, the supernatural-thrilling ? the best thing of this sort I've ever done'. With its extensive textual history and wide-ranging notes, this volume will interest not only James scholars, but all students of early twentieth-century Anglo-American literature and culture.

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; General editors' preface; General chronology of James's life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Jolly Corner and Other Tales; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations; Appendix A: entries in James's notebooks; Appendix B: extracts from prefaces to the New York edition.

N. H Reeve is Professor of English at the University of Wales, Swansea. He has written a number of critical studies of twentieth-century writing, and edited three volumes of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence. He edited a book of critical essays on James's short stories (Henry James: The Shorter Fiction, 1997), and for The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James he is co-editing The Beast in the Jungle and Other Tales and The Middle Years and Other Tales.