Leon Edel
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joseph Leon Edel was an American/Canadian literary critic and biographer. He was the elder brother of North American philosopher Abraham Edel. The Encyclopædia Britannica calls Edel "the foremost 20th-century authority on the life and works of Henry James." His work on James won him both a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize.
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Published Works
- The Complete Notebooks of Henry James (1947) (214)
- Henry James Letters. (1976) (164)
- The complete tales of Henry James (1962) (148)
- Henry James: A Life (1953) (123)
- Writing Lives: Principia Biographica (1984) (85)
- Henry James, The Master: 1901-1916 (1972) (85)
- The Diary Of Alice James (1964) (59)
- A mind of her own : the life of Karen Horney (1987) (55)
- Henry James: The Conquest of London: 1870-1881 (1978) (53)
- Henry James: Essays on Literature, American Writers, English Writers@@@Henry James: French Writers, Other European Writers, the Prefaces to the New York Edition (1987) (52)
- Telling Lives: The Biographer's Art (1981) (52)
- Willa Cather, a Critical Biography (1953) (51)
- Henry James: The Treacherous Years 1895–1901 (1969) (45)
- The Modern Psychological Novel (1959) (45)
- Henry James: The Untried Years 1843–1870 (1953) (43)
- The complete plays of Henry James (1949) (40)
- Henry James: The Middle Years: 1882-1895 (1962) (37)
- The life of Henry James (1977) (35)
- A bibliography of Henry James (1957) (33)
- Bloomsbury, a House of Lions (1979) (29)
- Henry James: Selected Letters (1987) (28)
- The future of the novel : essays on the art of fiction (1956) (25)
- The psychological novel, 1900-1950 (1955) (25)
- Henry James and H. G. Wells: A Record of Their Friendship, Their Debate on the Art of Fiction, and Their Quarrel (1979) (22)
- Henry James: a collection of critical essays (1963) (21)
- The house of fiction : essays on the novel (1957) (19)
- Stuff of Sleep and Dreams: Experiments in Literary Psychology (1982) (18)
- The Selected Letters Of Henry James (1955) (18)
- The biographer and psycho-analysis. (1961) (15)
- The library of Henry James (1987) (15)
- The house of fiction (1957) (14)
- Henry James and H. G. Wells (1958) (14)
- The madness of art. (1975) (13)
- The Architecture of Henry James's "New York Edition" (1951) (13)
- Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man. (1977) (12)
- The Crooked Corridor, a Study of Henry James@@@Henry James and the Expanding Horizon, a Study of the Meaning and Basic Themes of James's Fiction@@@Henry James and Robert Louis Stevenson, a Record of Friendship and Criticism (1950) (12)
- The prefaces of Henry James (1970) (11)
- Criticism's Double Agent (1982) (10)
- The future of the novel (1950) (10)
- The ghostly tales of Henry James (1949) (9)
- Transference: The Biographer's Dilemma (1984) (8)
- Literary biography : the Alexander lectures 1955-56 (1957) (8)
- Willa Cather, the paradox of success (1960) (6)
- The Europeans: A Facsimile of the Manuscript (1979) (6)
- Henry James: Stories of the Supernatural (1980) (6)
- The American essays (1956) (6)
- The Scenic Art: Notes on Acting and the Drama: 1871-1901 (1950) (5)
- Claybook for James Joyce (1958) (5)
- Henry James and Vernon Lee (1954) (4)
- The Nature of Literary Psychology (1981) (3)
- The artist in old age. (1985) (3)
- Time and The Ambassadors (1958) (3)
- Henry James and the expanding horizon (1948) (3)
- Essaying biography : a celebration for Leon Edel (1986) (3)
- The James Family@@@Alice James: A Biography@@@The Death and Letters of Alice James@@@Henry James Letters, Volume III: 1883-1895 (1982) (3)
- Henry James: Letters, Volume 4, 1895-1916 (1985) (2)
- The Henry James Reader (1965) (2)
- Shaping and Telling: The Biographer at Work (1982) (2)
- The Aspern Papers: Great-Aunt Wyckoff and Juliana Bordereau (1952) (2)
- Literary Criticism and Psychoanalysis (1965) (2)
- Henry James 1843-1870: The Untried Years. (1954) (2)
- Walter Berry and the Novelists: Proust, James, and Edith Wharton (1984) (2)
- Henry James as an Art Critic (1974) (2)
- Henry James in Harley Street (1953) (2)
- Henry James: The Conquest of London, 1870-1881@@@Henry James: The Middle Years, 1882-1895 (1963) (2)
- The Exile of Henry James (1933) (2)
- Hugh Walpole and Henry James: the fantasy of the 'Killer and the Slain'. (1951) (2)
- The Visitable Past: A Wartime Memoir (2000) (1)
- An interview with Leon Edel on the James Family. (1979) (1)
- Henry James: The Americano-European Legend (1967) (1)
- Texts out of Context (1958) (1)
- Literary History and Literary Criticism: Acta of the Ninth Congress International Federation for Modern Languages and Literature (1966) (1)
- Walden: The Myth and the Mystery. (1975) (1)
- Henry James and the Naturalist Movement . Lyall H. Powers. (1972) (1)
- Henry James Letters. Vol. III: 1883-1895. (1982) (1)
- Henry James's revisions for 'The Ambassadors' (1955) (1)
- : Henry James: A Reader's Guide. . S. Gorley Putt. (1968) (1)
- The Three Travelers in English Hours (1981) (1)
- Relations Stop Nowhere: Cases and Texts, Critics and Psychoanalysis (1983) (1)
- Letters. II: 1875-1883 (1977) (1)
- The Negative Imagination . Sallie Sears. (1970) (1)
- The Klein-Joyce Enigma (1984) (1)
- Biographer and subject: Lytton Strachey and Van Wyck Brooks∗ (1982) (1)
- Henry James Letters, Vol. IV: 1895-1916. (1985) (1)
- Henry James and The Outcry (1949) (1)
- The Late James (1989) (1)
- Henry James Letters. Volume IV: 1895-1916 (1986) (1)
- Pulitzer prize reader (1961) (1)
- Harry Levin (1912-1994) (1995) (0)
- Edmund Wilson: Letters on Literature and Politics, 1921-1972. (1978) (0)
- The Worldly Muse of A.J.M. Smith (1978) (0)
- A Little Tour of Henry James (1963) (0)
- Announcement (2003) (0)
- Henry James - American Writers 4: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers (1960) (0)
- Literary history & literary criticism : Acta of the ninth Congress, International Federation for Modern Languages & Literature : held at New York University, August 25 to 31, 1963 (1964) (0)
- The Question of Exile (1982) (0)
- Anti-Literary Biography (1970) (0)
- Henry James: The Artist as Emperor@@@Henry James, The Master 1901-1916, Vol. V (1973) (0)
- Henry D. Thoreau - American Writers 90: University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers (1970) (0)
- Contributors To This Issue (2001) (0)
- Criticism as Literature (1981) (0)
- 4 · Defeats 1890–1895 (1987) (0)
- Five World Biographies (1961) (0)
- Symbolic Statement: A Psychological View (1984) (0)
- Taylor, Edwards, Franklin, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville (1959) (0)
- Frank Scott and the Canadian Literary Renaissance (1990) (0)
- Eugene O’Neill: The Face and the Mask (1937) (0)
- Dr. Edel Replies (2006) (0)
- 5 · Discoveries 1895–1901 (1987) (0)
- The Lesson of Henry James (1985) (0)
- Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Adams, James, Crane, O'Neill, Frost, Eliot, Faulkner (1959) (0)
- Criticism and Psychoanalysis: Notes on the Two Disciplines (1961) (0)
- Essaying Biography (1986) (0)
- James Joyce and his New Work (1939) (0)
- El diario de Alice James (2003) (0)
- The Generosity of Poor Henry James (1984) (0)
- Transatlantic Migration: The Contemporary American Novel in France. (1956) (0)
- 1 · Initiations 1855–1870 (1987) (0)
- Announcements (1997) (0)
- 6 · Mastery 1902–1915 (1987) (0)
- The Future of Humanism (1975) (0)
- Henry James Letters. Volume I. 1843-1875 (1976) (0)
- Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury@@@Bloomsbury: A House of Lions@@@The Unknown Virginia Woolf (1980) (0)
- On Becoming an Editor (1981) (0)
- Contributors to This Issue (1973) (0)
- Edmund Wilson in Middle Age: "The Bit between My Teeth" (1982) (0)
- 2 · Saturations 1870–1880 (1987) (0)
- Introduction On Selecting Letters (1987) (0)
- Contributors to this issue (1958) (0)
- Contributors to this issue (2000) (0)
- Henry James and H. G. Wells.@@@The Image of Europe in Henry James. (1959) (0)
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