num_pages: 1168
description: Encompassing a period of almost fifty years, the stories of Henry James represent the most remarkable feat of sustained literary creation in modern times. For sheer richness, variety and intensity, they have no equal in fiction, enabling us to trace the evolution of a great writer in the finest detail. This collection reprints all the major stories together with many unfamiliar but equally intriguing pieces which illuminate their more celebrated companions.Volume Two takes us from A Private Life of 1892 to James's last story, A Round of Visits, published in 1910. These are magnificent works of James's maturity – The Death of the Lion, The Altar of the Dead, The Figure in the Carpet, The Turn of the Screw, In the Cage, The Beast in the Jungle and many others – in which the deepening darkness of the author's own life casts a tragic but heroic shadow on the themes of his youth.
language: English
title: Collected Stories: Volume Two
titlecomplete: Collected Stories: Volume Two
genres: Fiction, Classics, Short Stories, American
ratings_count: 22
publisher: Everyman's Library