(+ = new to the Second Edition)

Preface to the First Edition

+Preface to the Second Edition:

The Text of the Tales
Daisy Miller: A Study
The Aspern Papers
The Pupil
Brooksmith
The Real Thing
The Middle Years
+In the Cage
The Beast in the Jungle
The Jolly Corner

The Author on His Craft
Editor’s Commentary
Henry James * The Art of Fiction
Henry James * From His Notebooks:
[On the origin of "Booksmith"]
[On the origin of "The Aspern Papers"]
[On the origin of "The Real Thing"]
[On the origin of "The Middle Years’]
[On the origin of "The Beast in the Jungle"]
[Regarding "The Jolly Corner" in retrospect]
From His Prefaces
[On "Daisy Miller"]
[On "The Aspern Papers"]
[On "The Pupil"]
[On "Brooksmith" and "The Real Thing"]
[On "The Middle Years"]
+[On "In the Cage]
[On "The Beast in the Jungle"]
[On "The Jolly Corner"]

+Criticism
Richard A. Hocks * James and the Art of Short Fiction
Millicent Bell * ["Daisy Miller"]
William Veeder * ["The Aspern Papers"]
Michael Moon * ["The Pupil"]
Philip Horne * [The Master and the "Queer Affair" in "The Pupil"]
Julie Rivkin * [Revision and "The Middle Years"]
Joyce Carol Oates * The Madness of Art: Henry James’s "The Middle Years"
John Carlos Rowe * [Gender, Sexuality, and Work in "In the Cage"]
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick * ["The Beast in the Closet"]
Kenneth W. Warren * ["The Jolly Closet"]

Selected Bibliography