The Middle Years is an incomplete book of autobiography by Henry James, posthumously published in 1917.

The seven chapters of this fragment show promise as a record of James' young manhood in Europe.

Tennyson he found rather dull and commonplace, not at all the fine mind he expected.

George Eliot appealed much more to James with her interesting conversation and alert consideration of ideas.

James tells a story of how he helped summon a doctor when George Eliot's injured stepson required urgent medical aid.