A strange and delightful memento of one of the most lasting literary voices of all time,The Daily Henry James is a little book from a great mind. First published with James’s approval
in 1911 as the ultimate token of fandom—a limited edition quote-of-the-day collection titledThe Henry James Yearbook—this new edition is a gift across time, arriving as we mark the
centenary of his death. Drawing on the Master’s novels, essays, reviews, plays, criticism, and travelogues,The Daily Henry James offers a series of impressions (for if not of
impressions, of what was James fond?) to carry us through the year.
From the deepest longings of Isabel Archer to James’s insights in The Art of Fiction, longer seasonal quotes introduce each month, while concise bits of wisdom and whimsy mark each
day. To take but one example: Isabel, in a quote fromThe Portrait of a Lady for September 30, muses, “She gave an envious thought to the happier lot of men, who are always free to
plunge into the healing waters of action.” Featuring a new foreword by James biographer Michael Gorra as well as the original introductions by James and his good friend William Dean Howells,
this long-forgotten perennial calendar will be an essential bibelot for James’s most ardent devotees and newest converts alike, a treasure to be cherished daily, across all seasons, for
years, for ages to come.
