The Wings of the Dove鸽翼

The text of this 1902 novel is again that of the fully corrected and annotated reprint of the New York Edition (1909), together with James’s preface and the two frontispieces he commissioned for the New York Edition of The Wings of the Dove. The "Textual Appendix" includes notes on the novel’s textual history and lists all substantive revisions that James made to the novel, both in 1902 and in1909.
　　"The Author and the Novel," introduced by editorial commentary and new to the Second Edition, includes selections from James’s notebooks, letters, travel books, and autobiographical writings, which illuminate his conception and assessment of The Wings of the Dove.
　　"Criticism" reflects the lively interpretive and theoretical writing that The Wings of the Dove has enjoyed since the previous edition was published in 1978. Eleven essays are included, seven of them new to the Second Edition, including Anthony J. Mazzella’s piece on film adaptation.

The text of this 1902 novel is again that of the fully corrected and annotated reprint of the New York Edition (1909), together with James's preface and the two frontispieces he commissioned for the New York Edition of The Wings of the Dove. The "Textual Appendix" includes notes on the novel's textual history and lists all substantive revisions that James made to the novel, both in 1902 and in 1909.

"The Author and the Novel," introduced by editorial commentary and new to the Second Edition, includes selections from James's notebooks, letters, travel books, and autobiographical writings, which illuminate his conception and assessment of The Wings of the Dove. "Criticism" reflects the lively interpretive and theoretical writing that The Wings of the Dove has enjoyed since the previous edition was published in 1978. Eleven essays are included, seven of them new to the Second Edition, including Anthony J. Mazzella's piece on film adaptation.

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Preface
The Text of The Wings of the Dove:
　Preface to the New York Edition (1909):
　　Frontispiece to Volume I: The Doctor’s Door
　　MAP: London in 1909
　　Detail of London in 1909
　The Wings of the Dove:
　　Frontispiece to Volume II: The Venetian Palace
　　MAP: Venice in 1909
　　Detail of Venice in 1909
　Textual Appendix
　　Notes on the Text
　　Textual Variants
The Author on the Novel
　Editors’ Critical Commentary
　Henry James * From His Notebooks
　Henry James * From His Letters:
　　To William Dean Howells ( September 12, 1902)
　　To Mrs. Cadwalader Jones (October 23, 1902)
　　To H. G. Wells (November 15, 1902)
　　To William Dean Howells (December 11, 1902)
　　To Mrs. G.W. Prothero (September 14, 1913)
　　To Mrs. William James (March 29, 1914)
　　To Mrs. Richard W. Gilder (September 2, 1914)
　　From William James (Fall 1902)
　　To William James (Fall 1902)
　Henry James * From His Preface to The Ambassadors
　Henry James * From Italian Hours:
　　[St. Mark’s]
　　[The Venetian People]
　　[Relation of Art to Life in Venice]
　　[The Vast mausoleum with a Turnstile at the Door]
　　[The Resident Palaces of Venice]
　　[The Poetry of Misfortune]
　　[Three Venetian Sisters]
　Henry James * From Notes of a Son and Brother:
　　[The Character of Minnie Temple]
　　[Memories of Cultural Innocence]
　　[Minnie as Heroine]
　　[The Death of Minnie Temple]
　Henry James * From Is There a Life After Death?
Criticism
　William Dean Howells * Mr. Henry James’s Later Work
　R. P. Blackmur * [Dramas of the Soul in Action]
　Christof Wegelin * The Lesson of Spiritual Beauty
　Laurence B. Holland * From The Expense of Vision
　Sheila Teahan * The Abyss of Language in The Wings of the Dove
　Julie Olin-Ammentorp * "A Circle of Petticoats": The Feminization of Merton Densher
　Jonathan Freedman * Henry James, British Aestheticism, and Commodity Culture
　Gary Kuchar * Henry James and the Phenomenal Reader: Consciousness and the Variation of Style in The Wings of the Dove
　Richard Alleva * Henry James Made Carnal: Wings of the Dove
　Anthony J. Mazzella * "This web of subtle complexities": The 　Hossein Amini-Iain Softley Film Adaptation of The Wings of the Dove
　James Thurber * The Wings of Henry James
　Henry James: A Chronology
　Selected Bibliography