Download or read book The Altar of the Dead The Beast in the Jungle The Birthplace and Other Tales written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Altar of the Dead the Beast in the Jungle the Birthplace and Other Tales written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Altar Of The Dead The Beast In The Jungle written by Henry James and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of stories, Henry James explores the themes of love, loss, and the complexities of human relationships. With his characteristic attention to detail and psychological insight, James presents a series of vivid and memorable characters struggling to come to terms with the different challenges life throws their way. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the art of the short story and the work of one of America's greatest writers. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Altar of the Dead written by Henry James and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Altar of the Dead" is a short story by Henry James, first published in his collection Terminations in 1895. A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores how the protagonist tries to keep the remembrance of his dead friends, to save them from being forgotten entirely in the rush of everyday events. He meets a woman who shares his ideals, only to find that the past places what seems to be an impassable barrier between them. Although James was not religious in any conventional sense, the story shows a deep spirituality in its treatment of mortality and the transcendent power of unselfish love.Aging George Stransom holds sacred the memory of the great love of his life, Mary Antrim, who died before they could be married. One day Stransom happens to read of the death of Acton Hague, a former friend who had done him a terrible harm. Stransom starts to dwell on the many friends and acquaintances he is now losing to death. He begins to light candles at a side altar in a Catholic church, one for each of his Dead, except Hague. Later he notices a woman who regularly appears at the church and sits before his altar. He intuitively understands that she too honours her Dead, and they very gradually become friends. However Stransom later discovers that her Dead number only one: Acton Hague. Hague had wronged her too, but she has forgiven him. When his friend realises Stransom's feelings about Hague, she declares that she can no longer honour Hague at Stransom's altar. Stransom cannot bring himself to resolve the issue by forgiving Hague and adding a candle for him. This disagreement drives the two friends apart. Stransom's friend ceases visiting the altar, and Stransom himself can find no peace there The Beast in the Jungle is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection, The Better Sort. Almost universally considered one of James' finest short narratives, this story treats appropriately universal themes: loneliness, fate, love and death. The parable of John Marcher and his peculiar destiny has spoken to many readers who have speculated on the worth and meaning of human life.John Marcher, the protagonist, is reacquainted with May Bartram, a woman he knew ten years earlier, who remembers his odd secret: Marcher is seized with the belief that his life is to be defined by some catastrophic or spectacular event, lying in wait for him like a "beast in the jungle." May decides to buy a house in London with the money she inherited from a great aunt, and to spend her days with Marcher, curiously awaiting what fate has in store for him. Marcher is a hopeless egoist, who believes that he is precluded from marrying so that he does not subject his wife to his "spectacular fate." Once installed as the custodian, Morris begins to doubt the chatter he is forced to give to tourists who visit the home. He starts to qualify and hesitate in his spiel. This brings anguish to his wife and a warning from the shrine's proprietors. Gedge finally decides that if silliness is what's wanted, he'll supply it abundantly. The last section of the story shows him delivering a hilarious lecture on how the child Shakespeare played around the house. Of course, receipts from tourists increase and Gedge gets a raise.
Download or read book The Altar of the Dead The Beast in the Jungle The Birthplace and Other Tales written by Henry 1843-1916 James and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book The Altar of the Dead written by Henry James and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Altar of the Dead: The Beast in the Jungle the Birthplace and Other Tales To desire, amid these collocations, to place, so far as possible, like with like, was to invite The Beast in the Jungle to stand here next in order. As to the accidental determinant of which composition, once more - oi comparatively recent date and destined, like its predecessor, first to see the light in a volume of miscellanies The Better Sort, 1903) - I remount the stream of time, all inquiringly, but to come back empty-handed. The subject of this elaborated fan tasy - which, I must add, I hold a successful thing only as its motive may seem to the reader to stand out sharp - can't quite have belonged to the im memorial company of such solicitations; though in spite of this I meet it, in ten lines of an old note-book, but as a recorded conceit and an accomplished fact. Another poor sensitive gentleman, fit indeed to mate with Stransom of. The Altar - my attested pre dilection for poor sensitive gentlemen almost em barrasses me as I march -was to have been, after a strange fashion and from the threshold of his career, condemned to keep counting with the unreasoned prevision of some extraordinary fate the conviction, lodged in his brain, part and parcel of his imagination from far back, that experience would be marked for him, and whether for good or for ill, by some rare distinction, some incalculable Violence or unprecedented stroke. '50 I seemed to see him start in life under the so mixed star of the extreme of apprehension and the extreme of confidence all to the logical, the quite inevitable effect of the complication aforesaid: his having to wait and wait for the right recognition; none of the mere usual and normal human adventures, whether delights or disconcertments, appearing to conform to the great type of his fortune. So it is that he's depicted. No gathering appearance, no descried or interpreted promise or portent, affects his super stitious soul either as a damnation deep enough (if damnation be in question) for his appointed quality of consciousness, or as a translation into bliss sublime enough (on that hypothesis) to fill, 'in vulgar parlance, the bill. Therefore as each item of experience comes, with its possibilities, into View, he can but dismiss it under this sterilising habit of the failure to find it good enough and thence to appropriate it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Altar of the Dead written by Henry James and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2015-11-18 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Download or read book The Alter of the Dead written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beast in the Jungle written by Henry James and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-09-12 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beast in the Jungle Henry James - The Beast in the Jungle is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection, The Better Sort. Almost universally considered one of James' finest short narratives, this story treats appropriately universal themes: loneliness, fate, love and death. The parable of John Marcher and his peculiar destiny has spoken to many readers who have speculated on the worth and meaning of human life.
Download or read book The Beast in the Jungle and Other Stories written by Henry James and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of James's finest moments, "The Beast in the Jungle" is a portrait of a man alienated from life and love. Also includes "The Jolly Corner" and "The Altar of the Dead." Note.
Download or read book Parables of Life and Death Classic Masterpieces written by Henry James and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this duo of classic and timeless stories, we explore the significance of life and death, in different yet similar circumstances. In The Altar Of The Dead, the protagonist tries to keep the remembrance of his dead friends to save them from being forgotten entirely in the rush of everyday events; in attempting to accomplish his goals, the protagonist meets a woman who shares his ideals, only to find that the past places what seems to be an impassable barrier between them. In The Beast In The Jungle, the protagonist is reacquainted with a woman, May Bartram, he knew ten years earlier. Yet, and despite fate having given them a second chance at love, her attempts to get close to him are compromised by a very peculiar belief; the protagonist believes that his life is to be defined by some catastrophic or spectacular event, waiting for him like a "beast in the jungle." > Visit ladyvalkyrie.com for more Classics as well for Other titles and Series/Categories of books (Gothic, Westerns, Religion, Mysteries, Fiction, Romance, Action, Plays, Sci-fi, poetry, foreign languages, and many more)! > You can also browse our latest offerings at Amazon.com by searching for "lady valkyrie in books."
Download or read book Novels and Stories of Henry James The altar of the dead The beast in the jungle The birthplace The private life Owen written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Novels and Stories The altar of the dead The beast in the jungle The birthplace The private life Owen Wingrave The friends of the friends Sir Edmund Orme The real right thing The jolly corner Julia Bride written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Novels and Stories of Henry James altar of the dead written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Novels and Tales of Henry James written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Prefaces of Henry James written by John H. Pearson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
