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The Cambridge Edition

of the

Complete Fiction of Henry James

General Editors

Michael Anesko, Pennsylvania State University

Tamara Follini, Cambridge University

Philip Horne, University College London

Adrian Poole, Cambridge University

The Portrait of a Lady

edited by Michael Anesko

The Pennsylvania State University

Henry James

A scholarly edition of Henry James’s fiction is long overdue.  The passage of time and the consolidation of James’s standing both in the academy and with the general reader make an authoritative modern critical edition of James’s fiction timely.  Enough scholarly work has been done recently on James’s life and career, and on the cultural and publishing history of the period, to allow the production of a full and informative historical edition presenting the texts in accurate form, with extensive annotation and introductions detailing the histories of composition, publication, authorial revision, and public reception.  The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James, in thirty volumes, will include all of James’s novels and tales, with separate volumes for the Notebooks and the New York Edition Prefaces.