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THE AMERICAN <p> <div1 type=chap n='Chapter I'> <p> On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentleman was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carr;aae, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been removed, to the extreme regret of all weak-kneed lovers of the fine arts; but the gentleman in question had taken serene possession of its softest spot, and, with his head thrown back and his legs outstretched, was staring at Murillo's beautiful moon-borne Madonna in profound enjoyment of his posture. He had removed his hat, and flung down beside him a little red guide-book and an opera-glass. The day was warm; he was heated with walking, and he repeatedly passed his handkerchief over his forehead, with a somewhat wearied gesture. And yet he was evidently not a man to whom fatigue was familiar; long, lean, and muscular, he suggested the sort of vigor that is commonly known as <q>toug . . .
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Chronology <p> 1843 Born April 15 at 21 Washington Place, New York City, second child (after William, born January 11, 1842, N.Y.) of Henry James of Albany and Mary Robertson Walsh of New York. Father supports family on inheritance from his father William ($3,000,000 divided among eleven heirs, making a share yielding $10,000 a year), and writes on philosophy and religion. <p> 1843-45 Father takes family with mother's sister Catharine Walsh (Aunt Kate) to London and Paris in autumn. During residence in Windsor, England, father has a nervous and spiritual collapse (<q>vastation</q>) and becomes a Swedenborgian (May 1844). James claims as earliest memory the Place Vend;afome, dating from Paris trip. <p> 1845-47 Family returns to New York. A brother, Garth Wilkinson James (Wilky), born July 21, 1845. Family moves to Albany, taking a house at 50 N. Pearl St., a few doors from grandmother, Catharine Barber James. Many James family members live nearby. Another brother, Robertson . . .
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CONFIDENCE <p> <div1 type=chap n='I'> <p> It was in the early days of April; Bernard Longueville had been spending the winter in Rome. He had travelled northward with the consciousness of several social duties that appealed to him from the further side of the Alps, but he was under the charm of the Italian spring, and he made a pretext for lingering. He had spent five days at Siena, where he had intended to spend but two, and still it was impossible to continue his journey. He was a young man of a contemplative and speculative turn, and this was his first visit to Italy, so that if he dallied by the way he should not be harshly judged. He had a fancy for sketching, and it was on his conscience to take a few pictorial notes. There were two old inns at Siena, both of them very shabby and very dirty. The one at which Longueville had taken up his abode was entered by a dark, pestiferous arch-way, surmounted by a sign which at a distance might have been read by the travellers a . . .
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THE EUROPEANS <p> <div1 type=chap n='Chapter I'> <p> A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, indifferent city, seen from the windows of a gloomy-looking inn, is at no time an object of enlivening suggestion; and the spectacle is not at its best when the mouldy tombstones and funereal umbrage have received the ineffectual refreshment of a dull, moist snow-fall. If, while the air is thickened by this frosty drizzle, the calendar should happen to indicate that the blessed vernal season is already six weeks old, it will be admitted that no depressing influence is absent from the scene. This fact was keenly felt on a certain 12th of May, upwards of thirty years since, by a lady who stood looking out of one of the windows of the best hotel in the ancient city of Boston. She had stood there for half an hour--stood there, that is, at intervals; for from time to time she turned back into the room and measured its length with a restless step. In the chimney-place was a red-h . . .
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henry james <p> Henry James <p> NOVELS 1871-1880 <p> Watch and Ward <p> Roderick Hudson <p> The American <p> The Europeans <p> Confidence <p> Volume arrangement, notes, and chronology Copyright ;cW 1983 by@Literary Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y.@All rights reserved.@No part of this book may be reproduced commercially@by offset-lithographic or equivalent copying devices without@the permission of the publisher.@The paper used in this publication meets the@@minimum requirements of the American National Standard@@for Information Sciences--Permanence of Paper for@@Printed Library Materials, ansi z 39.48-1984.@@Distributed to the trade in the United States@@and Canada by the Viking Press.@@Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 83-5475@@For Cataloging in Publication Data, see end of Notes section.@@isbn: 0-940450-13-5@@Fifth Printing@@The Library of America--13@@Manufactured in the United States of America@@ William T. Stafford@@wrote the notes and selected . . .
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Note on the Texts <p> Presented in this volume of Henry James's works are early texts of his first five novels--Watch and Ward (1871), Roderick Hudson (1875), The American (1877), The Europeans (1878), and Confidence (1880). The first four were published in serial form in the Atlantic Monthly, where James's good friend William Dean Howells was editor; the last was published in Scribner's Monthly. With the exception of Watch and Ward, the texts printed here are those of the first American book editions, all published by the Boston firm of J. R. Osgood (later Houghton, Osgood and Company), and issued within a month or two of the final installments of the serial versions. Though James later made revisions in some of these novels, those revisions were made by a more experienced and sophisticated writer. This volume reprints the works of a young Henry James just beginning his long and productive career. The earlier versions offer the best opportunity to recapture that beginning . . .
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RODERICK HUDSON <p> Contents <p> I. Rowland 167 <p> II. Roderick 193 <p> III. Rome 222 <p> IV. Experience 251 <p> V. Christina 278 <p> VI. Frascati 307 <p> VII. St. Cecilia's 333 <p> VIII. Provocation 357 <p> IX. Mary Garland 377 <p> X. The Cavaliere 399 <p> XI. Mrs. Hudson 437 <p> XII. The Princess Casamassima 468 <p> XIII. Switzerland 491 <p> <div1 type=chap n='Chapter I'> @Rowland <p> Mallet had made his arrangements to sail for Europe on the first of September, and having in the interval a fortnight to spare, he determined to spend it with his cousin Cecilia, the widow of a nephew of his father. He was urged by the reflection that an affectionate farewell might help to exonerate him from the charge of neglect frequently preferred by this lady. It was not that the young man disliked her; on the contrary, he regarded her with a tender admiration, and he had not forgotten how, when his cousin had brought . . .
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WATCH AND WARD <p> <div1 type=chap n='I'> <p> Roger lawrence had come to town for the express purpose of doing a certain act, but as the hour for action approached he felt his ardor rapidly ebbing away. Of the ardor that comes from hope, indeed, he had felt little from the first; so little that as he whirled along in the train he wondered to find himself engaged in this fool's errand. But in default of hope he was sustained, I may almost say, by despair. He would fail, he was sure, but he must fail again before he could rest. Meanwhile he was restless enough. In the evening, at his hotel, having roamed aimlessly about the streets for a couple of hours in the dark December cold, he went up to his room and dressed, with a painful sense of having but partly succeeded in giving himself the tournure of an impassioned suitor. He was twenty-nine years old, sound and strong, with a tender heart, and a genius, almost, for common sense; his face told clearly of youth and kindness an . . .
