Volume 21, Number 21 & 22 · January 23, 1975
"Your Lone and Loving Exile"
By Alfred Kazin
Henry James: Letters Volume I, 1843-1875
edited by Leon Edel
Harvard University Press, 493 pp., $15.00
Italians like to say that an edited writer or text is 'in the care of' the editor. Henry James has been in the care of Leon Edel for more than forty years. As long ago as 1934, Edith Wharton's autobiography, A Backward Glance, noted Edel's interest in James. His doctorate in France on James's 'années dramatiques' was earned in 1932. Our shelves totter not just with James but with Edel: the five-volume biography, Edel's editing of the Complete Plays, of the Complete Tales (twelve volumes), of the Selected Letters, of the Parisian Sketches, of James's Ghostly Tales, of the Henry James Reader, of Alice James's Diary.
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