Reflections of a Jacobite

Early reading and Alphonse Daudet

Edith Wharton and her New Yorks

The two ages of Thackeray

Is George Eliot salvageable?

The little duke and the great king: Saint-Simon and Louis XIV

Meredith reassailed

Proust's picture of society

Americans in Trollope

James and Bourget: the artist and the crank

The novel of manners today: Marquand and O'Hara

James and the Russian novelists

Crisis in Newport, August, 1857 (with previously unpublished extracts from the diary of George Templeton Strong)

A reader's guide to the fiction of Henry James.