Encompassing a period of almost fifty years, the stories of Henry James represent the most remarkable feat of sustained literary creation in modern times. For sheer richness, variety and intensity, they have no equal in fiction, enabling us to trace the evolution of a great writer in the finest detail. This collection reprints all the major stories together with many unfamiliar but equally intriguing pieces that illuminate their more celebrated companions.

Volume 2 takes us from “The Private Life” of 1892 to James’s last story, “A Round of Visits,” published in 1910. These are the magnificent works of James’s maturity—“The Death of the Lion,” “The Altar of the Dead,” “The Figure in the Carpet,” “The Turn of the Screw,” “In the Cage,” “The Beast in the Jungle,” and many others—in which the deepening darkness of the author’s life casts a tragic but heroic shadow on the themes of his youth.

Contents of Volume 2

The Private Life

The Real Thing

Owen Wingrave

The Middle Years

The Death of the Lion

The Coxon Fund

The Next Time

The Altar of the Dead

The Figure in the Carpet

The Turn of the Screw

In the Cage

The Real Right Thing

The Great Good Place

Miss Gunton of Poughkeepsie

The Abasement of the Northmores

The Special Type

The Tone of Time

The Two Faces

The Beldonald Holbein

The Story in It

Flickerbridge

The Beast in the Jungle

The Papers

Fordham Castle

Julia Bride

The Jolly Corner

Crapy Cornelia

The Bench of Desolation

A Round of Visits