N. H Reeve is Professor of English at the University of Wales, Swansea. He has written a number of critical studies of twentieth-century writing, and edited three volumes of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence. He edited a book of critical essays on James's short stories (Henry James: The Shorter Fiction, 1997), and for The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James he is co-editing The Beast in the Jungle and Other Tales and The Middle Years and Other Tales.

• Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; General editors' preface; General chronology of James's life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Jolly Corner and Other Tales; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations; Appendix A: entries in James's notebooks; Appendix B: extracts from prefaces to the New York edition.

'It is extraordinary how little attention has been given to James's texts, other than by James himself, and this is what the thirty-four volumes of CFHJ [The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James] set out to correct.' Francis Wilson, The Times Literary Supplement

N. H Reeve is Professor of English at the University of Wales, Swansea. He has written a number of critical studies of twentieth-century writing, and edited three volumes of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence. He edited a book of critical essays on James's short stories (Henry James: The Shorter Fiction, 1997), and for The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James he is co-editing The Beast in the Jungle and Other Tales and The Middle Years and Other Tales.

• Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; General editors' preface; General chronology of James's life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Jolly Corner and Other Tales; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations; Appendix A: entries in James's notebooks; Appendix B: extracts from prefaces to the New York edition.

'It is extraordinary how little attention has been given to James's texts, other than by James himself, and this is what the thirty-four volumes of CFHJ [The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James] set out to correct.' Francis Wilson, The Times Literary Supplement

N. H Reeve is Professor of English at the University of Wales, Swansea. He has written a number of critical studies of twentieth-century writing, and edited three volumes of The Cambridge Edition of the Works of D. H. Lawrence. He edited a book of critical essays on James's short stories (Henry James: The Shorter Fiction, 1997), and for The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James he is co-editing The Beast in the Jungle and Other Tales and The Middle Years and Other Tales.

• Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; General editors' preface; General chronology of James's life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Jolly Corner and Other Tales; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations; Appendix A: entries in James's notebooks; Appendix B: extracts from prefaces to the New York edition.

'It is extraordinary how little attention has been given to James's texts, other than by James himself, and this is what the thirty-four volumes of CFHJ [The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James] set out to correct.' Francis Wilson, The Times Literary Supplement