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THE AMERICAN
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On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentleman was reclining
at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied
the centre of the Salon Carr;aae, in the Museum of the Louvre. This
commodious ottoman has since been removed, to the extreme regret of all
weak-kneed lovers of the fine arts; but the gentleman in question had
taken serene possession of its softest spot, and, with his head thrown
back and his legs outstretched, was staring at Murillo's beautiful
moon-borne Madonna in profound enjoyment of his posture. He had removed
his hat, and flung down beside him a little red guide-book and an
opera-glass. The day was warm; he was heated with walking, and he
repeatedly passed his handkerchief over his forehead, with a somewhat
wearied gesture. And yet he was evidently not a man to whom fatigue was
familiar; long, lean, and muscular, he suggested the sort of vigor that
is commonly known as <q>toug . . .
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Chronology
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1843 Born April 15 at 21 Washington Place, New York City, second child
(after William, born January 11, 1842, N.Y.) of Henry James of Albany
and Mary Robertson Walsh of New York. Father supports family on
inheritance from his father William ($3,000,000 divided among eleven
heirs, making a share yielding $10,000 a year), and writes on
philosophy and religion.
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1843-45 Father takes family with mother's sister Catharine Walsh (Aunt
Kate) to London and Paris in autumn. During residence in Windsor,
England, father has a nervous and spiritual collapse (<q>vastation</q>)
and becomes a Swedenborgian (May 1844). James claims as earliest memory
the Place Vend;afome, dating from Paris trip.
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1845-47 Family returns to New York. A brother, Garth Wilkinson James
(Wilky), born July 21, 1845. Family moves to Albany, taking a house at
50 N. Pearl St., a few doors from grandmother, Catharine Barber James.
Many James family members live nearby. Another brother, Robertson . . .
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CONFIDENCE
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It was in the early days of April; Bernard Longueville had been
spending the winter in Rome. He had travelled northward with the
consciousness of several social duties that appealed to him from the
further side of the Alps, but he was under the charm of the Italian
spring, and he made a pretext for lingering. He had spent five days at
Siena, where he had intended to spend but two, and still it was
impossible to continue his journey. He was a young man of a
contemplative and speculative turn, and this was his first visit to
Italy, so that if he dallied by the way he should not be harshly judged.
He had a fancy for sketching, and it was on his conscience to take a
few pictorial notes. There were two old inns at Siena, both of them
very shabby and very dirty. The one at which Longueville had taken up
his abode was entered by a dark, pestiferous arch-way, surmounted by a
sign which at a distance might have been read by the travellers a . . .
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THE EUROPEANS
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A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, indifferent city, seen
from the windows of a gloomy-looking inn, is at no time an object of
enlivening suggestion; and the spectacle is not at its best when the
mouldy tombstones and funereal umbrage have received the ineffectual
refreshment of a dull, moist snow-fall. If, while the air is thickened
by this frosty drizzle, the calendar should happen to indicate that the
blessed vernal season is already six weeks old, it will be admitted
that no depressing influence is absent from the scene. This fact was
keenly felt on a certain 12th of May, upwards of thirty years since, by
a lady who stood looking out of one of the windows of the best hotel in
the ancient city of Boston. She had stood there for half an hour--stood
there, that is, at intervals; for from time to time she turned back
into the room and measured its length with a restless step. In the
chimney-place was a red-h . . .
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henry james
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Henry James
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NOVELS 1871-1880
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Watch and Ward
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Roderick Hudson
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The American
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The Europeans
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Confidence
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Volume arrangement, notes, and chronology Copyright ;cW 1983
by@Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y.@All
rights reserved.@No part of this book may be reproduced commercially@by
offset-lithographic or equivalent copying devices without@the
permission of the publisher.@The paper used in this publication meets
the@@minimum requirements of the American National Standard@@for
Information Sciences--Permanence of Paper for@@Printed Library
Materials, ansi z 39.48-1984.@@Distributed to the trade in the United
States@@and Canada by the Viking Press.@@Library of Congress Catalog
Card Number: 83-5475@@For Cataloging in Publication Data, see end of
Notes section.@@isbn: 0-940450-13-5@@Fifth Printing@@The Library of
America--13@@Manufactured in the United States of America@@
William T. Stafford@@wrote the notes and selected . . .
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Note on the Texts
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Presented in this volume of Henry James's works are early texts of his
first five novels--Watch and Ward (1871), Roderick Hudson (1875), The
American (1877), The Europeans (1878), and Confidence (1880). The first
four were published in serial form in the Atlantic Monthly, where
James's good friend William Dean Howells was editor; the last was
published in Scribner's Monthly. With the exception of Watch and Ward,
the texts printed here are those of the first American book editions,
all published by the Boston firm of J. R. Osgood (later Houghton,
Osgood and Company), and issued within a month or two of the final
installments of the serial versions. Though James later made revisions
in some of these novels, those revisions were made by a more
experienced and sophisticated writer. This volume reprints the works of
a young Henry James just beginning his long and productive career. The
earlier versions offer the best opportunity to recapture that beginning . . .
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RODERICK HUDSON
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Contents
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I. Rowland 167
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II. Roderick 193
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III. Rome 222
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IV. Experience 251
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V. Christina 278
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VI. Frascati 307
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VII. St. Cecilia's 333
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VIII. Provocation 357
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IX. Mary Garland 377
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X. The Cavaliere 399
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XI. Mrs. Hudson 437
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XII. The Princess Casamassima 468
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XIII. Switzerland 491
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@Rowland
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Mallet had made his arrangements to sail for Europe on the first of
September, and having in the interval a fortnight to spare, he
determined to spend it with his cousin Cecilia, the widow of a nephew
of his father. He was urged by the reflection that an affectionate
farewell might help to exonerate him from the charge of neglect
frequently preferred by this lady. It was not that the young man
disliked her; on the contrary, he regarded her with a tender
admiration, and he had not forgotten how, when his cousin had brought . . .
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WATCH AND WARD
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Roger lawrence had come to town for the express purpose of doing a
certain act, but as the hour for action approached he felt his ardor
rapidly ebbing away. Of the ardor that comes from hope, indeed, he had
felt little from the first; so little that as he whirled along in the
train he wondered to find himself engaged in this fool's errand. But in
default of hope he was sustained, I may almost say, by despair. He
would fail, he was sure, but he must fail again before he could rest.
Meanwhile he was restless enough. In the evening, at his hotel, having
roamed aimlessly about the streets for a couple of hours in the dark
December cold, he went up to his room and dressed, with a painful sense
of having but partly succeeded in giving himself the tournure of an
impassioned suitor. He was twenty-nine years old, sound and strong,
with a tender heart, and a genius, almost, for common sense; his face
told clearly of youth and kindness an . . .
