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.

'These unexpectedly moving prefaces offer us a chance to salute his strange and lonely genius.' Paul Dean, New Criterion

• General editors' preface; General chronology of James' life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Prefaces; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations.

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.

'These unexpectedly moving prefaces offer us a chance to salute his strange and lonely genius.' Paul Dean, New Criterion

• General editors' preface; General chronology of James' life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Prefaces; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations.

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.

'These unexpectedly moving prefaces offer us a chance to salute his strange and lonely genius.' Paul Dean, New Criterion

• General editors' preface; General chronology of James' life and writings; Introduction; Textual introduction; Chronology of composition and production; Bibliography; The Prefaces; Glossary of foreign words and phrases; Notes; Textual variants; Emendations.