A Day of Days

By Henry James

"A Day of Days" is an interesting story of young Adela Moore, who has decided to take a break from society and goes to live with her widowed elder brother in the countryside. She meets Thomas Ludlow there, and they circle around each other emotionally. Adela tempts him to stay, but Ludlow has other plans.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Apr 11, 2021
• ISBN: 4064066461546

Henry James

Henry James (1843-1916) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and non-fiction. He spent most of his life in Europe, and much of his work regards the interactions and complexities between American and European characters. Among his works in this vein are The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Bostonians (1886), and The Ambassadors (1903). Through his influence, James ushered in the era of American realism in literature. In his lifetime he wrote 12 plays, 112 short stories, 20 novels, and many travel and critical works. He was nominated three times for the Noble Prize in Literature.

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Henry James

A Day of Days

Published by Good Press, 2022

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A Day of Days in The Galaxy1 (4) (15 June 1866): 298–312. (transcription project)— First publication in any form; the original magazine text.

A Day of Days in Stories Revived (3 volumes, London: Macmillan & Co., 1885)1: 246–280. (transcription project)— First English book edition; the original first book text.

A Day of Days in Stories Revived1: 246–280. — Reprint of first English book edition; uses the first book text.

"A Day of Days" in A Landscape Painter (New York: Scott and Seltzer, 1919): 175–215. — First American book edition; published posthumously; uses the magazine text.

A Day of Days in The Diary of a Man of Fifty, A New England Winter, The Path of Duty, and Other Tales (London: Macmillan & Co., 192?): 179–207. — Volume 25 of The Novels and Stories of Henry James, the first posthumous collection of James' works; uses the first book text.

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Mr. Herbert Moore, a gentleman of some note in the scientific world, and a childless widower, finding himself at last unable to reconcile his sedentary habits with the management of a household, had invited his only sister to come and superintend his domestic affairs. Miss Adela Moore had assented the more willingly to his proposal, as by her mother's death she had recently been left without a formal protector. She was twenty-five years of age, and was a very active member of what she and her friends called society. She was almost equally at home in the very best company of three great cities, and she had encountered most of the adventures which await a young girl on the threshold of life. She had become rather hastily and imprudently engaged, but she had eventually succeeded in disengaging herself. She had spent a summer in Europe, and she had made a voyage to Cuba with ​a dear friend in the last stage of consumption, who had died at the hotel in Havana. Although by no means beautiful in person, she was yet thoroughly pleasing, rejoicing in what young ladies are fond of calling an air. That is, she was tall and slender, with a long neck, a low forehead and a