About the Author

Henry James was born in 1843 in new York, with Scottish and Irish ancestry. Having studied in New York and Europe, he became a lawyer, and started writing in 1865. Spending time in Paris he knew Flaubert and Turgenev, before moving to London and then Sussex.

Philip Horne is a Reader in English at UCL. He is author of the acclaimed Henry James- A Life in Letters and series editor for several of Penguin Classics' Henry James' novels.

Ruth Yeazell is the Chase Professor of English at Yale University.

Reviews

'One of the greatest pieces of fiction ever written' - A. N. Wilson 'A wonderfully luminous drama' - Gore Vidal