Portrait of a novel: Henry James and the making of an American masterpiece

An old man in Rye

A preparation for culture. The girl in the doorway ; A native of no country ; A superstitious valuation ; Along the Thames

The marriage plot. Her empty chair ; Proposals ; An unmarried man ; A London life ; The envelope of circumstances

Italian journeys. Bellosguardo hours ; Mr. Osmond ; Stranieri ; An uncertain terrain ; A Venetian interlude ; Fenimore

Sex and serials, the Continent, and the critics. Maupassant and the monkey ; The magazines ; The Roccanera ; The art of fiction

Putting out the lights. The altar of the dead ; "I was perfectly free" ; Working in the dark ; The second chance ; Endgame.