Three nouvelles: The Turn of the Screw, The Beast in the Jungle, and The Pupil * Three short stories * critical essays, including the famous "The Art of Fiction" * Travel sketches * Autobiographical selections * A cross section of letters

CONTENTS:

Introduction
Henry James: A Chronology
Note and Acknowledgments

PART I: THREE TALES
Editor’s Note
Four Meetings
Greville Fane
The Real Thing

PART II: THREE NOUVELLES
Editor’s Note
The Pupil
The Turn of the Screw
The Beast in the Jungle

PART III: CRITICISM
Editor’s Note
The Art of Fiction
"The Great Form"
Criticism
Mr. Walt Whitman
The Limitations of Dickens
Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter
Ivan Turgenieff
Honore de Balzac
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Henry James to H. G. Wells

PART IV: PORTRAITS OF PLACES: FOUR CITIES
Editor’s Note
The After-Season in Rome
Occasional Paris
London
New York Revisited

PART V: PASSAGES OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND A JOURNAL
Editor’s Note
The Sense of Glory
     A Memory of Paris in Youth
The End of The Civil War: The Mask of Lincoln
The Banquet of Initiation: London and George Eliot
The Voice of Concord
A Journal: Boston – Cambridge – London – Paris: 25 November 1881 – 11 November 1882

PART VI: LETTERS