WINGS OF THE DOVE, THE

"The text of this revised Norton Critical Edition is the fully corrected and annotated reproduction of the New York Edition (1909), together with the author's preface and the two frontispieces that Henry James commissioned from photographer Alvin Langdon Cobum for the two volumes of the New York Edition. The "Textual Appendix" provides readers with a full account of The Wings of the Dove's publication and textual history, including quotations from fifteen previously unpublished letters that James wrote to his London literary agent and all of the substantive revisions that James made to the novel both in 1902 and in 1909." Eleven essays are included. Several of these critical essays, in particular that by Mazzella composed especially for this edition, address the relationship of the novel to its film adaptation. A new chronology of James's life and work and an updated Selected Bibliography are also provided.