(+ = new to the Second Edition)

+Preface

The Text of The Wings of the Dove:

Preface to the New York Edition (1909):
Frontispiece to Volume I: The Doctor’s Door
MAP: London in 1909
Detail of London in 1909

The Wings of the Dove:
Frontispiece to Volume II: The Venetian Palace
MAP: Venice in 1909
Detail of Venice in 1909
Notes on the Text
Textual Variants

The Author on the Novel
+Editors’ Critical Commentary
Henry James * From His Notebooks
Henry James * From His Letters:
To William Dean Howells ( September 12, 1902)
To Mrs. Cadwalader Jones (October 23, 1902)
To H. G. Wells (November 15, 1902)
To William Dean Howells (December 11, 1902)
To Mrs. G.W. Prothero (September 14, 1913)
To Mrs. William James (March 29, 1914)
To Mrs. Richard W. Gilder (September 2, 1914)
From William James (Fall 1902)
To William James (Fall 1902)

Henry James * From His Preface to The Ambassadors
Henry James * From Italian Hours:
[St. Mark’s]
[The Venetian People]
[Relation of Art to Life in Venice]
[The Vast mausoleum with a Turnstile at the Door]
[The Resident Palaces of Venice]
[The Poetry of Misfortune]
[Three Venetian Sisters]

Henry James * From Notes of a Son and Brother:
[The Character of Minnie Temple]
[Memories of Cultural Innocence]
[Minnie as Heroine]
[The Death of Minnie Temple]

Henry James * From Is There a Life After Death?

Criticism
William Dean Howells * Mr. Henry James’s Later Work
R. P. Blackmur * [Dramas of the Soul in Action]
Christof Wegelin * The Lesson of Spiritual Beauty
Laurence B. Holland * From The Expense of Vision
+Sheila Teahan * The Abyss of Language in The Wings of the Dove
+Julie Olin-Ammentorp * "A Circle of Petticoats": The Feminization of Merton Densher
+Jonathan Freedman * Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture
+Gary Kuchar * Henry James and the Phenomenal Reader: Consciousness and the Variation of Style in The Wings of the Dove
+Richard Alleva * Henry James Made Carnal: Wings of the Dove
+Anthony J. Mazzella * "This web of subtle complexities": The Hossein Amini-Iain Softley Film Adaptation of The Wings of the Dove
+James Thurber * The Wings of Henry James

+Henry James: A Chronology

Selected Bibliography