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More than two decades of research, study, and literary detection lie behind this treasury of stories by one of the undisputed giants in the field of American fiction, as Professor Floyd Horowitz here offers a collection of tales that he himself has authenticated to be the work of the prodigiously gifted Henry James. The author of such celebrated novels as The Portrait of a Lady, The Golden Bowl, The Wings of the Dove, and The Ambassadors, James is also justly remembered for his novellas and scores of short stories. And there may indeed be scores more, as this important volume shows. Published anonymously or under noms de plume in magazines like nineteenth-century New York's favorite The Knickerbocker, Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine, The National Magazine, and The Continental, a Civil War propaganda magazine, these previously uncollected pieces represent both apprentice work and early stories that already bear the mark of Jamesian artistry. Written in a period of more than ten years before James's first signed fiction appeared (in 1865) and readily accepted by the publishers and editors among his father's excellent connections, these uncovered stories add significantly to the James canon.
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出版社周刊评论
After subjecting thousands of anonymous stories from mid-19th-century publications to elaborate scrutiny, former English professor Horowitz has selected 25 tales for inclusion in this volume of purported early fiction by Henry James. Horowitz's methods involve close reading and computer analysis, which he claims permit him to detect patterns of word use, as well as references to certain sources from James's father's library, particularly the mystical religious thinker Emanuel Swedenborg. The earliest of the stories, an exotic morality tale titled "The Glass Slipper," dates from 1852, when James was 10 years old (Horowitz argues that such precocious publication was not uncommon at the time); the rest mostly span the decade between 1858 and 1868. On the surface, at least, a number of the stories are reminiscent of James in their deliberate take on matters of the heart, but most are also clearly shaped by the conventions of the day and are mired in a sentimentalism far from James's characteristic detachment. "A Cure for Coquettes" describes the transformation of the belle of an Indiana frontier family after a soldier rescues her from a pack of wild wolves; in "Breach of Promise of Marriage," another coquette gets a taste of her own medicine when she goes to visit friends in the country. Several Civil War stories are included, with the most fully realized being "My Lost Darling," which describes a woman's agonizing effort to track down her wounded brother in a military hospital. There is little chance Horowitz's claims will ever be corroborated, but he clearly knows and loves James's work, and readers willing to approach the volume in the spirit of a clever parlor game will enjoy matching wits with its editor. (Mar.) Forecast: Readers misled by the title and subtitle of Horowitz's collection may be disappointed to discover that the stories are not confirmed new additions to the James oeuvre. (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
Twenty-four stories, newly attributed to the young Henry James although unsigned by him, range from the slight and sentimental to the pleasingly melodramatic. For over two decades, editor Horowitz, a retired professor of English and computer science, has ferreted out anonymous or pseudonymous stories from the magazines of James's time and put them through a series of computer tests, focusing on repeated uses of particular words and phrases. The resulting selections, beginning in the year James turned 10 and ending when he was 26, are sometimes rough and sometimes charming, but they never display the psychological acuity, moral perceptiveness, or rigorous "point of view" of James's signed work. The storylines tend to revolve around obstacles to young love, and they tend to the insipid. In "The Pair of Slippers" and "The Rainy Day," an omniscient narrator tells of a privileged but thoughtless young woman who performs an act of charity, is transformed, and wins the man she has been pining for. In "Breach of Promise of Marriage," an heiress named Belle, the houseguest of an old school friend and the friend's husband (the story's narrator), becomes caught in her own seductive snare when she falls in love with a poor boy she has been flirting with. In one of the more entertaining tales, "A Hasty Marriage," a beautiful and well-bred but penniless narrator reenacts the fate of Beauty in "Beauty and the Beast"; in a fit of pride during a game of charades at an elegant house party, she actually marries the rich but ugly stranger who turns out to be kinder and nobler than her handsome long-time suitor. In prefaces to these pieces and others, the editor suggests correspondences to later work and evidence of James-family Swedenborgian precepts that he believes seal the identification of the author. Still, the tenacious reader alone will have to determine whether and which of these frothy stories is really the work of the great Henry James. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
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Lovers ofames' incomparable fiction will be elated to learn that new works have been unearthed by scholar Horowitz, although the master himself would be annoyed, given the pains he took to erase every trace of these early short stories. But how could Horowitz resist? Once he became convinced that The Story of a Year, the earliest signed short story by the then-22-year-oldames, was too sophisticated to be a true first, he began subjecting a host of anonymous and pseudonymous stories to painstaking scrutiny. After two decades of work, he has unmasked two-dozen beginner stories, including A Pair of Slippers, which was published in 1852, when the author was all of 10. So here are clever and romantic tales of courtship, the Civil War, ambition, charity, and deceit, most concerned with women's lives and each informatively introduced--the proving grounds for a precocious and intent young literary genius who grew ever more confident, blossoming with particular flair in Breach of Promise of Marriage, which was signed Mademoiselle Caprice. Amazing. --Donna Seaman Copyright 2004 Booklist
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Horowitz reprints 24 stories published anonymously or pseudonymously between 1852 and 1869 (in such magazines as the Newport Knickerbocker, Mercury, and Peterson's), identifying them as hitherto unrecognized apprentice work by the very youthful Henry James Jr., as stories that reveal ideas and linguistic structures that would later appear in James's signed stories and novels. In support of these attributions, Horowitz includes an appendix detailing his computer analysis of verbal "frequencies" and a "sequence of words--the string," which matches usages in selected anonymously published stories with those in stories known to be by James. A second appendix describes word games based on Charles Anthon's Latin primer and Liddell and Scott's Greek-English Lexicon, resources that Horowitz believes guided some of James's early composition. It may be that the young Henry James published some of his early fiction anonymously, perhaps taking advantage of his father's connections in the literary world, but the stories Horowitz presents here are banal, stylistically uninteresting, and conventionally sentimental. If they are James's work, he did well to leave them unacknowledged. ^BSumming Up: Optional. Comprehensive graduate and research collections. J. J. Benardete New School University
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| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Note | p. xv |
| 1852 The Pair of Slippers - National Magazine | p. 1 |
| 1858 Woman's Influence; or, Incidents of a Courtship - Newport Mercury | p. 6 |
| 1859 The Rainy Day - Newport Mercury | p. 21 |
| 1859 The Village Belle - Newport Mercury | p. 30 |
| 1859 The Sacrifice - Newport Mercury | p. 35 |
| 1860 The Rose-Colored Silk - Newport Mercury | p. 41 |
| 1861 A Winter Story - Newport Mercury | p. 47 |
| 1861 Sober Second Thought - Newport Mercury | p. 54 |
| 1861 Alone - Newport Mercury | p. 62 |
| 1861 The Death of Colonel Thoureau - Knickerbocker | p. 73 |
| 1862 The Story of a Ribbon Bow - Arthur's Home Magazine | p. 95 |
| 1862 A Summer Adventure - Knickerbocker | p. 104 |
| 1862 My Guardian and I - Knickerbocker | p. 115 |
| 1862 Breach of Promise of Marriage - Peterson's Magazine | p. 122 |
| 1863 A Sealed Tear - Knickerbocker | p. 143 |
| 1863 'I;' or, Summer in the City - Continental Monthly | p. 150 |
| 1863 The Sprite Transformed - Knickerbocker | p. 165 |
| 1863 The Blue Handkerchief - Continental Monthly | p. 186 |
| 1863 A Cure for Coquettes - Arthur's Home Magazine | p. 192 |
| 1863 My Lost Darling - Continental Monthly | p. 202 |
| 1865 One Evening's Work - Peterson's Magazine | p. 217 |
| 1866 Unto the Least of These - Arthur's Home Magazine | p. 238 |
| 1868 In a Circus - Frank Leslie's Lady's Magazine | p. 253 |
| 1869 A Hasty Marriage - Peterson's Magazine | p. 272 |
| Afterword | p. 295 |
| Selective Bibliography | p. 297 |
| Appendix A The Computer and the Search for Henry James | p. 299 |
| Appendix B Allusion as Proof in the Search for Henry James | p. 308 |