The Aspern Papers and Other Stories

by Henry James, Adrian Poole (Editor)

Overview

As well as "The Aspern Papers", this selection includes "The Death of the Lion", "The Figure in the Carpet", and "The Birthplace." All four stories concern the figure of the artist and the cult of celebrity. This new edition includes extracts from James's Prefaces and Notebooks that shed light on the genesis of the stories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199639878
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/01/2013
Series:	Oxford World's Classics Series
Edition description:	New
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	942,349
Product dimensions:	7.60(w) x 5.00(h) x 0.70(d)
Lexile:	1160L (what's this?)

About the Author

Adrian Poole has written extensively on Henry James and has edited What Maisie Knew, The American, and Washington Square for Oxford World's Classics. He is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to English Novelists (2009), The Oxford Book of Classical Verse with Jeremy Maule (1995; reissued 2000), and the author of Tragedy: a Very Short Introduction (2005).

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

IntroductionNote on the TextsSelect BibliographyChronology'The Aspern Papers''The Death of the Lion''The Figure in the Carpet''The Birthplace'Appendix 1: extracts from James's Prefaces for the New York EditionAppendix 2: extracts from James's NotebooksAppendix 3: stage and screen versions of 'The Aspern Papers'Appendix 4: variant readingsExplanatory Notes