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'These unexpectedly moving prefaces offer us a chance to salute his strange and lonely genius.' Paul Dean, New Criterion 'formidable' M. C., The Times Literary Supplement 'Herford's explanatory notes are … as long and very nearly as intricate as the prefaces themselves. They track allusions and references, provide bits of biography, along with a great deal of history and even some late-Victorian gossip, and above all catch the way a given phrase echoes off other moments in James's work. They showed me things about these old friends that I did not know and represent not only an enormous amount of research, but also a feel for the novelist's prose and sensibility that goes deeper than bone.' Michael Gorra, The Times Literary Supplement 'All of this history is meticulously set out by Oliver Herford in the excellent introduction to this hefty volume of collected prefaces, which is part of the never-to-be-too-much-praised Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James … the notes that connect the themes and images of the prefaces to the fiction, the notebooks and (especially) to James's reading in French drama and prose will be of immense use to all but the most completely indoctrinated readers of James. As a work of scholarship it is entirely admirable.' Colin Burrow, London Review of Books 'part of the never-to-be-too-much-praised Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James … the notes that connect the themes and images of the prefaces to the fiction, the notebooks and (especially) to James's reading in French drama and prose will be of immense use to all but the most completely indoctrinated readers of James. As a work of scholarship it is entirely admirable.' Colin Burrow, London Review of Books

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Oliver Herford is Associate Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Birmingham, UK. He is the author of Henry James's Style of Retrospect: Late Personal Writings, 1890–1915 (2016) and a past president of the Henry James Society. He has published widely on James in journals and edited collections – on topics including his reading of Walter Scott and Honoré de Balzac, his allusive style and his practice of commemoration – and has also published on life-writing and letter-writing in the circle of John Keats.

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