Adrian Poole has written extensively on Henry James and has edited What Maisie Knew, The American, and Washington Square for Oxford World's Classics. He is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to English Novelists (2009), The Oxford Book of Classical Verse with Jeremy Maule (1995; reissued 2000), and the author of Tragedy: a Very Short Introduction (2005).

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• Introduction ; Note on the Texts ; Select Bibliography ; Chronology ; 'The Aspern Papers' ; 'The Death of the Lion' ; 'The Figure in the Carpet' ; 'The Birthplace' ; Appendix 1: extracts from James's Prefaces for the New York Edition ; Appendix 2: extracts from James's Notebooks ; Appendix 3: stage and screen versions of 'The Aspern Papers' ; Appendix 4: variant readings ; Explanatory Notes

Adrian Poole has written extensively on Henry James and has edited What Maisie Knew, The American, and Washington Square for Oxford World's Classics. He is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to English Novelists (2009), The Oxford Book of Classical Verse with Jeremy Maule (1995; reissued 2000), and the author of Tragedy: a Very Short Introduction (2005).

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• Introduction ; Note on the Texts ; Select Bibliography ; Chronology ; 'The Aspern Papers' ; 'The Death of the Lion' ; 'The Figure in the Carpet' ; 'The Birthplace' ; Appendix 1: extracts from James's Prefaces for the New York Edition ; Appendix 2: extracts from James's Notebooks ; Appendix 3: stage and screen versions of 'The Aspern Papers' ; Appendix 4: variant readings ; Explanatory Notes

Adrian Poole has written extensively on Henry James and has edited What Maisie Knew, The American, and Washington Square for Oxford World's Classics. He is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to English Novelists (2009), The Oxford Book of Classical Verse with Jeremy Maule (1995; reissued 2000), and the author of Tragedy: a Very Short Introduction (2005).

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• Introduction ; Note on the Texts ; Select Bibliography ; Chronology ; 'The Aspern Papers' ; 'The Death of the Lion' ; 'The Figure in the Carpet' ; 'The Birthplace' ; Appendix 1: extracts from James's Prefaces for the New York Edition ; Appendix 2: extracts from James's Notebooks ; Appendix 3: stage and screen versions of 'The Aspern Papers' ; Appendix 4: variant readings ; Explanatory Notes