Similarly, James found much to appreciate in the intellectual force of George Eliot, the stolid but comprehensive detail-work of Anthony Trollope, the unbounded imagination of Robert Louis Stevenson, and the genial common sense of Alphonse Daudet. All very different writers, but all speak with validity from their personal view on life. This wide range presages the "house of fiction" image James would include in the "New York Edition" preface to "The Portrait of a Lady", where each novelist looks at life from a particular window of the house and thus composes a unique and personally characteristic account.