Henry James’s New York EditionToward the end of Henry James's career, Charles Scribner's Sons offered him the opportunity to publish his collected works in a single edition under the overall title The New York Edition of the Novels and Tales of Henry James (1907 1909). Rather than simply reprint his fictional oeuvre, James entered into a massive work of self monumentalization: revising the texts extensively; writing prefaces that have become classic texts on prose aesthetics and