A Most Extraordinary Case

by Henry James (1843-1916)

Versions of A Most Extraordinary Case include:

• "A Most Extraordinary Case" in The Atlantic Monthly 21(126) (April 1868): 461–485.

  — First publication in any form; the original "magazine text".

• "A Most Extraordinary Case" in Stories Revived (3 volumes, London: Macmillan & Co., 1885) 3: 209–269. (transcription project)

  — First English book edition; the original "first book text".

• "A Most Extraordinary Case" in Stories Revived (2 volumes, London: Macmillan & Co., 1885) 2: 341–401.

  — Reprint of first English book edition; uses the "first book text".

• "A Most Extraordinary Case" in A Landscape Painter (New York: Scott and Seltzer, 1919): 217–287.

  — First American book edition; published posthumously; uses the "magazine text".

• "A Most Extraordinary Case" in The Last of the Valerii, Master Eustace, The Romance of Certain Old Clothes, and Other Tales (London: Macmillan & Co., 1923): 113–169.

  — Volume 26 of The Novels and Stories of Henry James, the first posthumous collection of James' works; uses the "first book text".