This is an annotated collection of the writer's family history.

The story of an intelligent but confused young London bookbinder, Hyacinth Robinson, who becomes involved in radical politics and a terrorist assassination plot.

With an Introduction by Pat Righelato, University of Reading The child of parents who divorce, remarry and then embark on adulterous affairs, Maisie Farange survives by her intelligence and spirit. For all its sombre theme of childhood innocence exposed to a corrupted adult world, this novel is one of James's comic masterpieces. The outrageous behaviour of the characters on the seedy fringes of the English upper class is conveyed with wit and relish....

Kate Croy and her lover, journalist Merton Densher, scheme to extort money from a naive and trusting American heiress who is terminally ill. This edition includes letters and comments by James, along with criticism of the novel, then and now.