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Henry James, Jr. (1843–1916)

Author of The Portrait of a Lady

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American/English novelist 1843-1916, son of Henry James, Sr.  Same as Henry James 1 Because there are other authors on LT named "Henry James", do NOT combine this page with that of "Henry James".

Image credit: Portrait by John Singer Sargent, 1913

Works by Henry James, Jr.

The Portrait of a Lady (1881) 10,772 copies
The Turn of the Screw (1898) 8,144 copies
Washington Square (1880) — Author — 4,405 copies
The Ambassadors (1903) 3,975 copies
Daisy Miller (1878) 3,616 copies
The Wings of the Dove (1902) 3,404 copies
The Golden Bowl (1904) 2,762 copies
The Bostonians (1886) 2,757 copies
What Maisie Knew (1897) 2,122 copies
The American (1877) 2,078 copies
The Europeans: A Sketch (1878) 1,631 copies
The Turn of the Screw / The Aspern Papers (1888) — Author — 1,537 copies
The Aspern Papers (1888) 882 copies
The Spoils of Poynton (1896) 772 copies
The Awkward Age (1899) 729 copies
The Princess Casamassima (1886) 727 copies
Roderick Hudson (1875) 469 copies
Novels: 1871-1880 (1983) 452 copies
Novels: 1881-1886 (1985) 411 copies
The Beast in the Jungle (1903) 353 copies
Italian Hours (1909) 340 copies
Literary Criticism, Vol. 1 (1984) 323 copies
Complete Stories: 1884-1891 (1999) 301 copies
Ghost Stories of Henry James (2001) 301 copies
The Tragic Muse (1890) 299 copies
Novels: 1886-1890 (1989) 295 copies
The Lesson of the Master (1996) 293 copies
Literary Criticism, Vol. 2 (1984) 288 copies
Complete Stories: 1864-1874 (1999) 285 copies
The Portable Henry James (1951) 280 copies
Novels 1896–1899 (2003) 265 copies
Novels: 1901–1902 (2006) 264 copies
The Figure in the Carpet (1992) 264 copies
The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories (1969) — Author — 254 copies
Selected Short Stories (1955) 253 copies
A Little Tour in France (1983) 251 copies
The Sacred Fount (1901) 248 copies
The Other House (1896) 235 copies
The Outcry (1911) 205 copies
English hours (1905) 187 copies
Selected Tales (1969) 176 copies
In the Cage (1898) 161 copies
The American Scene (1907) 155 copies
Stories of the Supernatural (1891) — Author — 144 copies
The Ivory Tower (1917) 136 copies
Novels 1903-1911 (2011) 132 copies
The Notebooks of Henry James (1947) 111 copies
Hawthorne (1879) 106 copies
Confidence (1880) 95 copies
A Small Boy and Others (1913) 92 copies
Selected Fiction (1953) 91 copies
The Altar of the Dead (1922) 90 copies
Henry James: Selected Works (1960) 82 copies
The Pupil (1891) 82 copies
Watch and Ward (1871) 81 copies
The Jolly Corner (1908) 75 copies
Collected Stories: 1866-91 (1999) 72 copies
The Coxon Fund (1895) 71 copies
The art of fiction (2010) 70 copies
The Diary of a Man of Fifty (1879) 55 copies
El mentiroso. Alas rotas (1987) 54 copies
Henry James: Autobiography (1956) 50 copies
The Death of the Lion (1894) 50 copies
A London Life (1957) 48 copies
An International Episode (1900) 48 copies
The Uncollected Henry James (2003) 47 copies
Lady Barberina (1900) 45 copies
Relatos (1985) 41 copies
The Real Thing (1893) 39 copies
The Madonna of the Future (1960) 39 copies
The Sense of the Past (1923) 38 copies
The Middle Years (1917) 36 copies
Greville Fane (1984) 33 copies
Travels with Henry James (2016) 31 copies
Literary Reviews and Essays (1957) 27 copies
The Ghostly Rental (1876) 26 copies
The letters of Henry James (1920) 26 copies
Pandora (2004) 26 copies
Portraits of Places (1977) 26 copies
Madame de Mauves (1999) 25 copies
Nine Tales (1977) 24 copies
Fifteen Short Stories (1961) 23 copies
Professor Fargo (1874) 23 copies
Partial Portraits (1888) 23 copies
Embarrassments (2007) 22 copies
The Papers (1903) 22 copies
The Last of the Valerii (1874) 22 copies
Notes of a Son and Brother (1914) 21 copies
Gabrielle de Bergerac (1869) 21 copies
The Patagonia (2003) 21 copies
The Finer Grain (2008) 20 copies
In The Cage and Other Tales (1958) 20 copies
Daumier, Caricaturist (1954) 19 copies
French poets and novelists (1964) 19 copies
The Author of Beltraffio (2007) 18 copies
Some Short Stories (2004) 18 copies
Notes on novelists (1914) 18 copies
A Bundle of Letters (2009) 18 copies
Julia Bride (1909) 17 copies
The Marriages (2008) 17 copies
New York Revisited (1994) 17 copies
The Birthplace (2010) 17 copies
Four Meetings (1900) 17 copies
The Henry James Reader (1965) 16 copies
Victorian Short Stories: Stories of Successful Marriages (2007) — Contributor — 16 copies
The Chaperon (1995) 16 copies
Eugene Pickering (1900) 16 copies
Poor Richard (1997) 15 copies
Racconti italiani (1997) 15 copies
The Better Sort (1903) 14 copies
Owen Wingrave (1983) 14 copies
Terminations (1895) 13 copies
Ghost Stories 13 copies
Novels of Henry James (1996) 13 copies
Selected Novels and Stories (1985) 13 copies
Benvolio (2009) 13 copies
Glasses (1999) 13 copies
Transatlantic Sketches (1875) 12 copies
Travelling Companions (1870) 12 copies
Los amigos de los amigos (1986) 12 copies
Picture and text (2006) 11 copies
A Passionate Pilgrim (2007) 11 copies
Stories from six authors (1960) — Contributor — 11 copies
The Private Life (2003) — Author — 10 copies
On Provence (2014) 10 copies
Affairs of the Heart (1975) 10 copies
Nona Vincent (2008) 10 copies
Sir Dominick Ferrand (2006) 10 copies
Sir Edmund Orme (2003) 10 copies
The Pension Beaurepas (2007) 10 copies
Obras escogidas I (1967) 10 copies
A Landscape Painter (1919) 10 copies
Letters 9 copies
The Siege of London (1883) 9 copies
La vida privada y otros relatos (2006) — Author — 8 copies
13 cuentos de fantasmas (2010) 8 copies
Louisa Pallant (2007) 8 copies
Romanzi brevi 8 copies
The Beldonald Holbein (2000) 8 copies
Retour à Florence (1991) 7 copies
The tales of Henry James (1973) 7 copies
Romanzi brevi vol. 2 (1990) 7 copies
Brooksmith (2013) 7 copies
The Point of View (2009) 7 copies
The Wheel of Time (1893) 7 copies
Americans and Europe (1965) 7 copies
Cuatro fantasmas (1997) 7 copies
Selected Works (1981) 7 copies
The Two Faces (1993) 7 copies
Tales 7 copies
Tales of three cities (1884) 7 copies
Tales of the Criminous (1956) 6 copies
The Ambassadors, vol. 1 (1922) 6 copies
La Imaginación Literaria (2000) 6 copies
Licao do Mestre, A (2014) 6 copies
Tree of Knowledge (2010) 6 copies
Georgina's Reasons (2008) 6 copies
Un chiquillo y otros (2001) 6 copies
Romanzi 6 copies
The Soft Side (2007) 6 copies
Un altre pas de rosca (1999) 6 copies
De Grey: A Romance (2009) 6 copies
Porträtt av en dam. 1 (2017) 6 copies
Master Eustace (1977) 6 copies
Seven Tales (1983) 6 copies
Selected Stories (1957) 6 copies
La revanche (1985) 6 copies
Porträtt av en dam. 2 (2017) 6 copies
Il mestiere di scrivere (2006) 5 copies
Lo real (2003) 5 copies
Italian Tales (2005) 5 copies
Fantasmas (2016) 5 copies
The ghostly visitors (2006) 5 copies
Stories Revived, Vol. 3 (2008) 5 copies
Views and reviews (2017) 5 copies
Racconti 5 copies
Longstaff's Marriage (1996) 4 copies
Romanzi brevi vol. 1 (1991) 4 copies
Maud-Evelyn (2003) 4 copies
Theatre and Friendship (1932) 4 copies
Horas italianas 2010 (2013) 4 copies
The Ambassadors, vol. 2 (1922) 4 copies
Tres relatos (1985) 4 copies
Locura del arte (2014) 4 copies
Bir Basyapitin Öyküsü (2014) 4 copies
Impressions of a Cousin (2000) 4 copies
The Path Of Duty (2012) 4 copies
Impressions (1898) — Introduction — 4 copies
London (2007) 4 copies
Le siège de Londres (2005) 4 copies
Sur Maupassant (1999) 4 copies
La torre de marfil (2003) 4 copies
Lord Beaupre (2000) 3 copies
La Vida Privada (2012) 3 copies
Vacaciones en Roma (2012) 3 copies
Adina (2010) 3 copies
The Third Person (1900) 3 copies
The turn of the screw (2013) 3 copies
Paste (2013) 3 copies
Carnets (2016) 3 copies
The Classic Gothic Horror Collection (2021) — Contributor — 3 copies
Henry James's Waistcoat (2007) 3 copies
Voyages en Amérique (2004) 3 copies
Saadikud : [romaan] (1999) 3 copies
Bly'in Gizemi (2006) 3 copies
NOVELISTAS (2012) 3 copies
Tales of Art and Life (1984) 3 copies
O mentiroso 3 copies
Le prefazioni 3 copies
Voyage à Bordeaux (1993) 2 copies
Aventura do Estilo, A (2017) 2 copies
A Most Extraordinary Case (2010) 2 copies
LA EDAD INGRATA (1996) 2 copies
A Tragedy of Error (2014) 2 copies
A New England Winter (2004) 2 copies
Osborne's Revenge (2010) 2 copies
Lady Barbarina (2017) 2 copies
La próxima vez (2003) 2 copies
El sitio de Londres (2003) 2 copies
El pupilo (2003) 2 copies
Turn Of The Screw (1959) 2 copies
Las mejores narraciones (2004) 2 copies
O Duchach (2020) 2 copies
Heures anglaises (2012) 2 copies
Godziny włoskie (2021) 2 copies
At Isella (2010) 2 copies
Shorter Masterpieces (1984) 2 copies
Storie di matrimonio (2001) 2 copies
Obras Escogidas 2 copies
A Problem (2014) 2 copies
George Sand (2004) 2 copies
My Friend Bingham (2004) 2 copies
Noveller 2 copies
The Great Good Place (1900) 2 copies
Foreign parts 2 copies
Notes and Reviews (1921) 2 copies
The Henry James year book (1912) 2 copies
The Solution (2000) 2 copies
The Saloon (1996) 1 copy
The Spoils of Poynton [1970 TV series] — Original book — 1 copy
Maisie tudja 1 copy
Œuvres 1 copy
Echo 1 copy
The Great Condition (1994) 1 copy
Yürek Burgusu (2020) 1 copy
Six Stories 1 copy
Due donne 1 copy
Histoires de fantômes (2012) 1 copy
Une vie à Londres (1991) 1 copy
The Next Time (2012) 1 copy
Henry James 1 copy
The Americans (16) (1957) 1 copy
Collection 1 copy
Kruvi keere 1 copy
Romanzi 1 copy
Lo scolaro 1 copy
L' ereditiera. (1960) 1 copy
The Old Things (2004) 1 copy
Pyramus and Thisbe (2015) 1 copy
The Theatre Francaise (2010) 1 copy
Nouvelles (2009) 1 copy
Tre saggi su Balzac (1988) 1 copy
Three Novels (1968) 1 copy
Heure italiennes (1995) 1 copy
Romans 1 copy
La fuente sagrada (1983) 1 copy
Dins la gàbia (2001) 1 copy
Substance and shadow (1983) 1 copy
Tre ritratti 1 copy
Lettres à sa famille (1996) 1 copy
Lettere a Miss Allen (1993) 1 copy
John Delavoy (2012) 1 copy
Le ‰fonte sacra (1989) 1 copy
La belva della giungla (1989) 1 copy
La cosa reale (2008) 1 copy
The letters 1 copy

Associated Works

50 Great Short Stories (1952) — Contributor — 1,258 copies
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 926 copies
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992) — Contributor — 752 copies
The Dark Descent (1987) — Contributor — 726 copies
Short Story Masterpieces (1954) — Contributor — 682 copies
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (1944) — Contributor — 642 copies
Great American Short Stories: From Hawthorne to Hemingway (2004) — Contributor — 595 copies
The Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories (1986) — Contributor — 545 copies
The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories (1976) — Contributor — 522 copies
The Oxford Book of Short Stories (1981) — Contributor — 513 copies
Black Water: The Book of Fantastic Literature (1983) — Contributor — 502 copies
Great American Short Stories (1957) — Contributor — 498 copies
American Gothic Tales (1996) — Contributor — 462 copies
American Supernatural Tales (2007) — Contributor — 446 copies
Fifty Great American Short Stories (1965) — Contributor — 436 copies
Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday (1983) — Contributor — 433 copies
Points of View: Revised Edition (1966) — Contributor — 414 copies
Critical Theory Since Plato (1971) — Contributor, some editions — 400 copies
Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old & New (1981) — Contributor — 336 copies
Best Short Stories of the Modern Age (1962) — Contributor, some editions — 335 copies
The Faber Book of Gay Short Fiction (1992) — Contributor — 322 copies
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (2004) — Contributor — 298 copies
A Treasury of Short Stories (1947) — Contributor — 292 copies
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (1998) — Contributor — 281 copies
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Contributor — 269 copies
Hauntings: Tales of the Supernatural (1968) — Contributor — 233 copies
Criticism: Major Statements (1964) — Contributor — 223 copies
Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural (1981) — Contributor — 199 copies
Late Victorian Gothic Tales (2005) — Contributor — 191 copies
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories (1969) — Contributor — 189 copies
Sixteen Short Novels (1985) — Contributor — 177 copies
The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories (1995) — Contributor — 169 copies
Classic Ghost Stories (1998) — Contributor — 161 copies
Short Novels of the Masters (1948) — Contributor — 156 copies
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984) — Contributor — 143 copies
Life in the Iron Mills [Bedford Cultural Editions] (1997) — Contributor — 143 copies
An Anthology of Famous American Stories (1953) — Contributor — 139 copies
A Literary Christmas: An Anthology (2013) — Contributor — 137 copies
Shadows of Carcosa: Tales of Cosmic Horror (2014) — Contributor — 128 copies
The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories (1984) — Contributor — 122 copies
Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology (1984) — Contributor — 113 copies
Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories (1990) — Contributor — 112 copies
Phantastic Book of Ghost Stories (1990) — Contributor — 111 copies
The Norton Book of Travel (1987) — Contributor — 110 copies
The Rise of Silas Lapham [Norton Critical Edition] (1885) — Contributor — 99 copies
Norton Introduction to the Short Novel (1982) — Contributor — 99 copies
Treasury Of Gothic & Supernatural (1981) — Contributor — 97 copies
American Short Stories (1976) — Contributor, some editions — 95 copies
American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set (2009) — Contributor — 92 copies
The American Fantasy Tradition (2002) — Contributor — 90 copies
Classic Ghost Stories (2010) — Contributor — 77 copies
Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated) (2011) — Contributor, some editions — 77 copies
The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998) — Contributor — 76 copies
The Innocents [1961 film] (1961) — Original novel — 76 copies
The Folio Book of Short Novels (1995) — Contributor — 76 copies
Ten Modern Masters: An Anthology of the Short Story (1953) — Contributor — 73 copies
Bedside Book of Famous American Stories (1936) — Contributor — 72 copies
200 Years of Great American Short Stories (1975) — Contributor — 69 copies
Masters of the Macabre (1999) — Contributor — 66 copies
Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories (1999) — Contributor — 65 copies
The Medusa in the Shield (1990) — Contributor — 65 copies
The Whole Family: A Novel (1908) — Contributor — 64 copies
The Giant Book of Ghost Stories (1994) — Contributor — 60 copies
Seven Short Novel Masterpieces (1961) — Contributor — 60 copies
New York (1980) — Contributor — 60 copies
65 Great Tales of Horror (1981) — Contributor — 59 copies
The Blithedale Romance [Norton Critical Edition, 2nd ed.] (2010) — Contributor — 56 copies
Art of Fiction (1967) — Contributor — 51 copies
The Norton Book Of Ghost Stories (1994) — Contributor — 50 copies
The Oxford Book of Sea Stories (1994) — Contributor — 50 copies
Colonial Horrors: Sleepy Hollow and Beyond (2017) — Contributor — 50 copies
Eleven Modern Short Novels (1970) — Contributor — 49 copies
Victorian Love Stories: An Oxford Anthology (1996) — Contributor — 48 copies
An Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories (1989) — Contributor — 45 copies
The old East Side, an anthology (1969) — Contributor — 41 copies
The Portrait of a Lady [1996 film] (2001) — Original story — 39 copies
The Wings of the Dove [1997 film] (1997) — Original story — 36 copies
XII Twelve Short Novels (1961) — Contributor — 34 copies
The Odd Number: Thirteen Tales (1889) — Introduction, some editions — 33 copies
London Assurance and Other Victorian Comedies (2001) — Contributor — 33 copies
American short novels (1960) — Contributor — 30 copies
The Mystery Book (1934) — Contributor — 29 copies
Classic Ghost Stories: Spooky Tales to Read at Christmas (2017) — Contributor — 29 copies
Washington Square [1997 film] (1997) — Original book — 28 copies
Venice Stories (2018) — Contributor — 27 copies
Ten Modern Short Novels (1958) — Contributor — 27 copies
Angels of Darkness: Tales of Troubled and Troubling Women (1995) — Contributor — 27 copies
Twelve Victorian Ghost Stories (1997) — Contributor — 27 copies
Great Ghost Stories: 34 Classic Tales of the Supernatural (2002) — Contributor — 27 copies
American gothic : An anthology 1787–1916 (1999) — Contributor — 26 copies
American short stories, 1820 to the present (1952) — Contributor — 26 copies
Nursery Crimes (1993) — Contributor — 24 copies
Eight Short Novels (1967) — Contributor — 22 copies
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Contributor — 22 copies
The World of Law, Volume II : The Law as Literature (1960) — Contributor — 21 copies
Great English Short Stories (1930) — Contributor — 20 copies
The Bostonians [1984 film] (2003) — Original novel — 20 copies
Short Story Classics [American], Volume 3 (1905) — Contributor — 20 copies
The Golden Bowl [2000 film] (2000) — Original book — 19 copies
The Turn of the Screw [vocal score] (1955) — Author, some editions — 19 copies
Horror by Lamplight (1993) — Contributor — 18 copies
Nine Short Novels (1952) — Contributor — 17 copies
Lost Souls Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2018) — Contributor — 17 copies
Tales of the Occult (1975) — Contributor — 16 copies
The Fireside Book of Ghost Stories (1947) — Contributor — 16 copies
Great Short Novels of the World (1927) — Contributor — 15 copies
Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories (Gothic Fantasy) (2021) — Contributor — 15 copies
Four great American novels (1946) — Contributor — 15 copies
Story to Anti-Story (1979) — Contributor — 13 copies
Twenty-Nine Stories (1960) — Contributor — 13 copies
Love Stories: Classic Tales of Romance (2010) — Contributor — 13 copies
The Wrong Turning: Encounters with Ghosts (2021) — Contributor — 12 copies
Selected English short stories XIX & XX centuries (1914) — Contributor — 11 copies
The Great Modern American Stories: An Anthology (1920) — Contributor — 10 copies
An Adult's Garden of Bloomers (1966) — Contributor — 7 copies
More ghosts and marvels (1934) — Contributor — 7 copies
The Trials of Love (1990) — Contributor — 7 copies
The Story Survey (1953) — Contributor — 6 copies
Kipling and the Critics (1965) — Contributor — 6 copies
Representative American Short Stories — Contributor — 5 copies
The Europeans [1979 film] (2003) — Original book — 5 copies
Seven Novellas (1966) — Contributor — 5 copies
The Portrait of a Lady [1968 TV mini series] (1968) — Original book — 5 copies
Vijf Amerikaanse novellen (1985) — Contributor — 5 copies
Great Love Scenes from Famous Novels (1943) — Contributor — 5 copies
The Golden Bowl [1972 BBC mini series] (1999) — Original story — 4 copies
The American [1998 film] — Original book — 4 copies
Twelve short novels (1976) — Contributor — 3 copies
Z Duchami Przy Wigilijnym Stole (2020) — Contributor — 3 copies
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Contributor — 2 copies
Affairs of the Heart, Series 1 (2008) — Original stories — 2 copies
Modern Short Stories — Contributor — 2 copies
Short Stories of the Past (1950) — Contributor — 2 copies
Fantastyczne Opowieści — Contributor — 1 copy
Introduction to Fiction (1974) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name
James, Henry, Jr.
Birthdate
1843-04-15
Date of death
1916-02-28
Burial location
Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
UK (naturalised 1915)
Country (for map)
UK
Birthplace
New York, New York, USA
Place of death
Chelsea, London, England, UK
Places of residence
London, England, UK
Rye, Sussex, England, UK
Paris, France
Education
Harvard University
Occupations
playwright
novelist
critic
Relationships
James, Henry, Sr. (father)
James, William (brother)
Awards and honors
Order of Merit (1915)
Disambiguation notice
American/English novelist 1843-1916, son of Henry James, Sr.  Same as Henry James 1 Because there are other authors on LT named "Henry James", do NOT combine this page with that of "Henry James".

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Reviews

I downloaded this after seeing it reviewed by FictionFan (and her review is excellent). I have read very little by Henry James, but am going to work my way through more of his writing. This is a novella with a strong Venice setting and more of a character study than a plot-filled adventure, but the protagonist and his self-justifications were well done, and there was a certain amount of suspense towards the end.
 
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pgchuis | 30 other reviews | May 20, 2024 |
Oblique in disclosure of dialogue and dense in nuances - these are the fascinating techniques that Henry James uses to make you work, hard sometimes, to persist and discover his skill in rendering in speech and story, every aspect possible that contributes to complete a polished work of fiction.
One has to admire a genius like this forever refining his narrative skills. James is witty, urbane and fully confident about the vapid milieu in which his characters circulate.
Read this book and consider the effort that went into setting it down on paper.… (more)
 
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ivanfranko | 40 other reviews | Apr 26, 2024 |

The narrator of the story, a book reviewer, cannot discover the secret meaning and intention of his favorite author. He becomes obsessed with finding the "figure in the carpet." It made me think...
What is the secret intent of any artist's work? Can we enjoy reading, listening, or viewing art without ever knowing? What if we don't interpret it in the way that the artist intended?
 
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Chrissylou62 | 7 other reviews | Apr 11, 2024 |
Mrs. Walker needs to mind her own business!
 
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Robert Penn Warren Contributor
Percy Lubbock Editor, Contributor
Richard A. Hocks Contributor, Editor
Philip Rahv Editor, Introduction
William James Contributor
Kieran McGovern Retold by
Edgar Allan Poe Contributor
Walter Besant Contributor
Thomas Hardy Contributor
George Moore Contributor
E. F. Benson Editor, Contributor
William Faulkner Contributor
Graham Greene Contributor
James Joyce Contributor
Joseph Conrad Contributor
Ralph Adams Cram Contributor
Mary Shelley Contributor
Sheridan Le Fanu Contributor
Myfawnwy Piper Librettist
Ambrose Bierce Contributor
Elizabeth Gaskell Contributor
Washington Irving Contributor
William Mudford Contributor
Dick Donovan Contributor
W. C. Brownell Contributor
Prosser Hall Frye Contributor
Stuart P. Sherman Contributor
J.E. Spingarn Contributor
Paul Elmer More Contributor
Lewis E. Gates Contributor
Van Wyck Brooks Contributor
Walt Whitman Contributor
Irving Babbit Contributor
R. P. Blackmur Introduction, Editor
Francis Wilson Introduction
R. W. B. Lewis Foreword, Introduction, Editor
Philip Horne Contributor, Editor
Denis Donoghue Editor, Introduction
Oscar Cargill Afterword, Contributor
Jean Strouse Editor, Introduction
Joseph Pennell Illustrator
F. O. Matthiessen Editor, Contributor
James W. Tuttleton Contributor, Editor
David L. Sweet Introduction
Edward Gorey Cover designer, Cover artist
Millicent Bell Contributor
F. R. Leavis Preface, Contributor
Hortense Calisher Introduction
Irving Howe Contributor
Frederick Sheldon Contributor
Richard Poirier Contributor
Royal A. Gettmann Contributor
Maud Ellmann Contributor
Philip Fisher Contributor
Henry Mills Alden Contributor
Nicola Bradbury Contributor
E. M. Forster Contributor
Ian Watt Contributor
Sallie Sears Contributor
Heywood Broun Introduction
Herbert Ruhm Variants, notes, and introduction, Editor
Martha L. Sledge Introduction
Charles Dickens Contributor
John J. McDermott Introduction, Editor
Alfred Habegger Introduction
Maud Jackson Adapted by
Blanche Malvern Adapted by
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Justin Rainey Activities by
Cecil Beaton Contributor
Gerald M. Durrell Contributor
Rebecca Raynes Activities by
Anna Maria Patrone Activities by
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Philip Bannister Illustrator
R. W. Stallman Introduction, Editor
Charles Roberts Anderson Editor, Introduction
Robin Jacques Illustrator
Gore Vidal Foreword, Introduction
Hageland A. Van Translator
Joan Aiken Introduction
Johannes Jonkers Translator
Colm Tóibín Afterword
Lore Krüger Translator
Inge de Heer Translator
Fred B. Millett Introduction
Sarah Wyman Whitman Cover designer
Jan Cohn Editor
John Updike Introduction
Cynthia Ozick Introduction
Louis Auchincloss Introduction
Lorna Raver Narrator
Wil Verhoeven Afterword
Fausta Cialente Translator
Mattias Fyhr Preface
Mariette Lydis Illustrator
Phoebe Judge Narrator
Ramón Buckley Translator
John Cimon Warburg Cover artist
Emma Thompson Narrator
BJ Harrison Narrator
Simon Vance Narrator
Carl Van Doren Introduction
Ola Klingberg Translator
F. W. Dupee Afterword, Editor
Seymour Chwast Cover artist, Designer
Jordi Arbonès Translator
Claude Bonnafont Translator
Martha Heesen Translator
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Lloyd James Narrator
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