A Small Boy and Others is Henry James's memoir of his childhood and family, centered on his early years and his brother William. It recalls people, places, and impressions from a 19th-century American intellectual household. It is worth listening to for its reflective prose and intimate portrait of the James family.
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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.
Opening of the book
A SMALL BOY AND OTHERS BOOKS BY HENRY JAMES Published by Charles Scribner's Sons A Small Boy and Others net $2.50 The Outcry net 1.25 The Finer Grain net 1.25 The Sacred Fount 1.50 The Wings of the Dove, 2 vols. 2.50 The Better Sort 1.50 The Golden Bowl, 2 vols. 2.50 Novels and Tales. New York Edition 24 vols., net $48.00 Henry James and his Father From a daguerreotype taken in 1854 Henry James and his Father From a daguerreotype taken in 1854
A SMALL BOY AND OTHERS BY HENRY JAMES NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1913 Copyright, 1913, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Published March, 1913 Publisher's logo
CONTENTS I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X XI XII XIII XIV XV XVI XVII XVIII XIX XX XXI XXII XXIII XXIV XXV XXVI XXVII XXVIII XXIX A SMALL BOY AND OTHERS I In the attempt to place together some particulars of the early life of William James and present him in his setting, his immediate native and domestic air, so that any future gathered memorials of him might become the more intelligible and interesting, I found one of the consequences of my interrogation of the past assert itself a good deal at the expense of some of the others. For it
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