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Update v.1.3 | 28 Feb 2016.
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of Henry James’ death, I proofed a bunch of texts:
• ‘Daisy Miller’, ‘Four Meetings’, and ‘An International Episode’ against Daisy Miller: A Study, etc., Macmillan & Co., 1879 (2nd ed.);
• ‘The Madonna Of The Future’, ‘Madame De Mauves’, ‘Eugene Pickering’, ‘Benvolio’, ‘Longstaff’s Marriage’, and ‘The Diary Of A Man Of Fifty’ against The Madonna of the Future, and Other Tales, Macmillan & Co., 1879, 2 vols.;
• ‘Washington Square’, ‘The Pension Beaurepas’, and ‘A Bundle of Letters’ against Washington Square, etc., Macmillan & Co., 1881, 2 vols.;
• ‘The Siege of London’ and ‘The Point of View’ against The Collective Edition Vols. 11 and 12, Macmillan & Co., 1883;
• ‘The Impressions of a Cousin’, ‘Lady Barberina’, and ‘A New England Winter’ against Tales of Three Cities, Macmillan & Co., 1884;
• ‘A Landscape-Painter’, ‘A Day of Days’, ‘Poor Richard’, ‘The Romance of Certain Old Clothes’, ‘A Most Extraordinary Case’, ‘A Light Man’, ‘A Passionate Pilgrim’, ‘Master Eustace’, ‘The Last of the Valerii’, ‘Théodolinde or Rose-Agathe’, ‘The Author of Beltraffio’, ‘Pandora’, ‘Georgina’s Reasons’, and ‘The Path of Duty’ against Stories Revived, Macmillan & Co., 1885, 3 vols.;
• ‘The Aspern Papers’, ‘Louisa Pallant’, and ‘The Modern Warning’ against The Aspern Papers, etc., Macmillan & Co., 1888;
• ‘A London Life’, ‘The Liar’, ‘The Patagonia’, and ‘Mrs. Temperly’ against A London Life, etc., Macmillan & Co., 1889;
• ‘The Lesson of the Master’, ‘The Marriages’, ‘The Pupil’, ‘Brooksmith’, ‘The Solution’, and ‘Sir Edmund Orme’ against The Lesson Of The Master, etc., Macmillan & Co., 1892;
• ‘The Real Thing’, ‘Jersey Villas or Sir Dominick Ferrand’, ‘Nona Vincent’, ‘The Chaperon’, and ‘Greville Fane’ against The Real Thing, etc., Macmillan & Co., 1893;
• ‘The Private Life’, ‘The Wheel of Time’, ‘Lord Beaupré’, ‘The Visits’, ‘Collaboration’, and ‘Owen Wingrave’ against The Private Life, etc., James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co., 1893;
• ‘Next Time’, ‘The Figure in the Carpet’, ‘Glasses’, and ‘The Way It Came’ against Embarrassments, William Heinemann, 1897;
• ‘The Turn of the Screw’ and ‘Covering End’ against The Two Magics, William Heinemann, 1898; and
• ‘In the Cage’ against the first book edition, Duckworth & Co., 1898.
Thousands of mistakes and variants were corrected. Please let me know if you find any mistakes in them.
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