Ambassadors

The first scholarly edition of one of Henry James's last great novels, The Ambassadors (1903).

List of contents

General editors' preface; General chronology of James' life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Ambassadors; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; List of emendations; Appendices.

About the author

Nicola Bradbury is an Honorary Follow of the Department of English Literature, University of Reading and is the author of Henry James: The Later Novels (1979).

Summary

Henry James considered his late novel The Ambassadors (1903) 'quite the best, 'all round'' of all his works. This volume based on the first book edition provides extensive annotations, a detailed textual history of the work and a full introduction exploring the novel's literary, cultural and historical contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Henry James
• Assisted by: Nicola Bradbury (Editor), Nicola (University of Reading) Bradbury (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9781107002838
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00283-8
• No. of pages: 668
• Series: The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James; The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James; The Cambridge Edition of the C
• Subjects: Education and learning > Adult education/adult education classes; Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form