The Tragic Muse

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Tragic Muse, by Henry James This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Tragic Muse Author: Henry James Release Date: December 10, 2006 [eBook #20085] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE TRAGIC MUSE*** E-text prepared by Chuck Greif, R. Cedron, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team Europe (http://dp.rastko.net/) THE TRAGIC MUSE BY HENRY JAMES MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON 1921 PREFACE BOOK FIRST: I, II, III, IV, V, VI BOOK SECOND: VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII BOOK THIRD: XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII BOOK FOURTH: XVIII, XIX, XX, XXI BOOK FIFTH: XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXX, XXXI BOOK SIX: XXXII, XXXIII, XXXIV, XXXV, XXXVI, XXXVII, XXXVIII, XXXIX, XL, XLI BOOK SEVENTH: XLII, XLIII, XLIV, XLV, XLVI BOOK EIGHTH: XLVII, XLVIII, XLIX, L, LI PREFACE I profess a certain vagueness of remembrance in respect to the origin and growth of The Tragic Muse, which appeared in the Atlantic Monthly again, beginning January 1889 and running on, inordinately, several months beyond its proper twelve.