Rosella Mamoli Zorzi is professor emerita of Anglo-American Literature at the University of Venice Ca' Foscari. She has edited several selections of Henry James's letters, both in Italian and in English, including: Letters from the Palazzo Barbaro (1998), Beloved Boy. Letters to Hendrik C. Andersen 1899-1915 (2004) and Letters to Isabella Stewart Gardner (2009). She is also the author of multiple works on Henry James, and most recent volume is Ralph W.Curtis, un pittore americano a Venezia (2019), of which she is preparing an English, revised edition. Simone Francescato is an Associate Professor in Anglo-American literature and culture at Ca' Foscari University of Venice. He is also the author of Collecting and Appreciating: Henry James and the Transformation of Aesthetics in the Age of Consumption (2010).

'This exemplary edition of Henry James's writing reminds us how modern he was - how alive to paradox and uncertainty, how awake to nuance and, for someone so committed to the art of fiction, how sceptical, finally, of his own processes.' Elizabeth Lowry, Times Literary Supplement

• List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; General Editor's Preface; General Chronology of James's Life and Writings; Introduction; Textual Introduction; Chronology of Composition and Production; Bibliography; The Aspern Papers and Other Tales, 1884-188; Glossary of Foreign Words and Phrases; Notes; Textual Variants; Emendations; Appendix A. Extracts from James's Notebooks; Appendix B. Prefaces to the New York Edition.