Master Eustace Author:Henry James General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1920 Original Publisher: T. Seltzer Subjects: Fiction / General Fiction / Anthologies Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Short Stories History / General Literary Criticism / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It h... more »as no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: PREFACE The five stories in this volume, together with the 'four included in "A Landscape Painter," appeared originally in American periodicals, but for some unknown reason were never issued by Henry James in book form in this country. The present volume, along with "A Landscape Painter," makes accessi- tle to the American public the nine short stories of Henry James which hitherto have been accessible only in English editions of his works. I hardly need to emphasize the literary value of the stories in this volume -- all of them written later than "A Landscape Painter." Both critics and public have expressed surprise at the amazing precocity of Henry James as shown in the tales of "A Landscape Painter," all of which were written before the author was twenty-five. The stories in the present collection are more mature in matter, yet they retain his earlier simplicity of style. Two of them were written when he was almost verging towards "the middle years." "Longstaffs Marriage (Scribner's Monthly, August 1878) and "Benvolio" (Galaxy, August 1875) appeared in the "Madonna of the Future and Other Tales," published in London, 1879. "Benvolio" also appeared in the English edition of Henry James's "Collection of Novels and Tales" brought out in 1883. The other three tales in this volume, "Master Eustace" (Galaxy, November 1871), "Theodolinde" (Lippincott's Magazine, May 1878), and "A Light Man" (Galaxy, July 1869)...« less