Bibliography: p. 491-502

Includes index

I. Practicing novelist as practical critic. Matthew Arnold's Essays in criticism (1865) -- Sainte-Beuve (1880, 1904) -- Middlemarch (1873) -- Honoré de Balzac (1875, 1878) -- From Hawthorne (1879) -- Ivan Turgénieff (1884, 1888) -- II. The theorist on fiction and culture. Art of fiction (1884, 1888) -- Guy de Maupassant (1888) -- Criticism (1891, 1893) -- Future of the novel (1899) -- III. The master and his prefaces. Roderick Hudson (1907) -- The American (1907) -- The portrait of a lady (1908) -- The awkward age (1908) -- What Maisie knew (1908) -- The Aspern papers (1908) -- The wings of the dove (1909) -- The ambassadors (1909) -- The golden bowl (1909) -- IV. Genius in old age. Emile Zola (1903, 1914) -- The novel in The ring and the book (1912, 1914)

A collection of "the most important" of Henry James' Prefaces; "his studies of Hawthorne, George Eliot, Balzac, Zola, de Maupassant, Turgenev, Sainte-Beuve, and Arnold; and his essays on the function of criticism and the future of the novel."--Back cover

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