Henry James Autobiography: A Small Boy and Others; Notes of a Son and Brother; The Middle Years

xiv, 622 pp. Black-and-white frontispiece and plates. Originally written as three complete books, this one-volume edition includes A Small Boy and Others, Notes of a Son and Brother, and The Middle Years. Begun when James was sixty-eight years old, it was written at a time when his great critical mind was actively devoted to the understanding of his existence in its complicated wholeness. The reader will come away from the book with a picture of the man within the novelist--the intimate basis of James's themes and methods.