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Hardcover. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. 1st Edition. SUPERB: NEW First Edition Library of America hardcover (Orig. 1996) Second Printing: NEW unclipped mylar-protected handsomely-designed LOA gloss-laminated jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners & showing orig. $35.00 pub. price at bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior, NEW silk-finish sand-tan Brillianta linen-over-boards cover w/ NEW edges & corners, IMPECCABLE white-on-dark-tan LOA-patterned card-stock end-papers, NEW sewn binding w/ tight signatures & w/ tan-white-checked cloth bands at spine-caps & silk tan page-marker ribbon, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-point Linotron Galliard on SUPERB acid-fee Ecusta Nyalite archival paper * 5.0" x 8.12" x 1.24", 0.61 kg, 948 pp * CONTENTS: Complete Stories, 1892-1898 (Volume IV of V): Nona Vincent (1), The Real Thing (32), The Private Life (58), Lord Beaupre (92), The Visits (147), Sir Dominick Ferrand (163), Greville Fane (217), Collaboration (234), Owen Wingrave (256), The Wheel of Time (291), The Middle Years (335), The Death of the Lion (356), The Coxon Fund (393), The Altar of the Dead (450), Glasses (525), The Figure in the Carpet (572), The Way It Came (609), The Turn of the Screw (635), Covering End (741), In the Cage (835); Chronology (925), Note on the Texts (940), Notes (943) * ABOUT THE BOOK: This LOA volume is the 4th of 5 that make available for the first time in new, complete, & authoritative editions the astonishing abundance of invention & unwavering intensity of the aesthetic vision of Henry James as displayed in more than 100 world-famous stories ranging from brief anecdotes to richly developed novellas. Equally adept at ironic comedy, muted tragedy, & supernatural fantasy, at lively social satire & nuanced portraiture, James in his shorter works explores a staggering variety of situations & emotions. Here are courtships & legacies; the worlds of literature, theatre, & the popular press; the paradoxes of temperament & the constraints of custom; the clash of conscience & desire. Stylistically, the stories allowed James to experiment w/ tones & devices quite different from his novels: dramatic plot twists & surprise endings, swift pacing & ebullient humor. The brilliance of his technical command allowed him to transform the tiniest of suggestions (a fleetingly observed gesture, an anecdote dropped at a dinner party) into fiction remarkable for its lambent surfaces & intricate psychological counterpoint. The 21 stories in this volume represent James at the peak of his storytelling powers. Among them are "The Turn of the Screw", one of his most popular works, & a terrifying exercise in psychological horror centering on the corruption of childhood innocence; "The Real Thing," a playful consideration of the illusion of art & the paradoxes of authenticity; "The Figure in the Carpet", "The Death of the Lion", & "The Middle Years", 3 very different expositions of the mysteries of authorship, embodying some of James' most profound insights into the nature of his own art; "The Altar of the Dead", a somber, ultimately wrenching meditation on the relation of the living to the dead; & "In the Cage", an extended evocation of the inner life of a young woman trapped in a dehumanizing job at a postal-&-telegraph office. * ABOUT THE EDITORS: John Hollander & David Bromwich are Poet Laureate of the State of Connecticut & Sterling Professor at Yale University, respectively. Mr. Hollander is a 1990 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. Mr. Bromwich is the author of "Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking". * The LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic).