Download or read book The Sacred Fount written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nameless narrator encounters two former acquaintances, Gilbert Long and Grace Brissenden, both of whom are also going to the party at Newmarch, and both of whom appear considerably changed to the narrator. Long, who previously struck the narrator as a handsome clod, seems suddenly to have become clever, and Mrs. Brissenden, who is supposedly at least forty, seems to have grown younger or at least not to have aged. In conversation with Mrs. Briss, as she is called, the narrator receives the idea for what is to become his theory, that Long's intellectual improvement is the result of his having entered into a relationship with a clever woman, identified by Mrs. Briss as Lady John, another guest at Newmarch. Lady John is coming on a later train with Guy Brissenden, her screen, as that gentleman's wife intimates, for her affair with Long. Arriving at the party, the narrator fails, just as he initially failed to recognize Mrs. Briss, to recognize Guy, who, although only in his late twenties, looks older now than his wife. Guy appears, in fact, "quite sixty." This discovery completes the narrator's theory that as one party to a relationship gains, either physically or intellectually, the other loses, is drained by the "sacrificer" until quite depleted. The narrator communicates this theory to Ford Obert, who assumes Mrs. Briss to be considerably younger than her husband. The narrator attempts to corroborate his theory. His discovery that Lady John is as witty and superficial as ever leads him to reject her, in a conversation with Mrs. Briss, as Long's "victim," for the partner to such a relationship will of necessity lack her former attributes. At this juncture, the two conspirators discovers in colloquy two figures who prove to be Guy and May Server, the latter presumably using Guy as a screen, just as Lady John was formerly said to have done. Mrs. Briss happily proves to be the very woman for whom they are looking to serve as the replacement for the now unacceptable Lady John. Mrs. Server is "all over the place," flitting from man to man in an attempt to mask the loss of her faculties, or so Mrs. Briss confides to the narrator in their next interview. Her description tallies remarkably with that given the narrator by Obert, who sees Mrs. Server greatly changed from the self-possessed woman she was when she sat for him to have her portrait painted. By this time, the narrator, on the grounds of both Mrs. Briss's and Obert's testimony and of an encounter with Mrs. Server herself, comes around to accepting Mrs. Briss's account, but his tender feeling for Mrs. Server, his sense that he and his collaborator are poking into a matter that is none of their business, and perhaps also his pique that Mrs. Briss is beating him at his own game, prevents him from acknowledging to her fully the degree of conviction to which she brings him.
Download or read book The Sacred Fount Annotated written by Henry James and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-10-02 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sacred Fount is a novel by Henry James, first published in 1901. This strange, often baffling book concerns an unnamed narrator who attempts to discover the truth about the love lives of his fellow guests at a weekend party in the English countryside. He spurns the "detective and keyhole" methods as ignoble, and instead tries to decipher these relationships purely from the behavior and appearance of each guest. He expends huge resources of energy and ingenuity on his theories, much to the bemusement of some people at the party.
Download or read book The Sacred Fount by Henry James Delphi Classics Illustrated written by Henry James and published by Delphi Classics. This book was released on 2017-07-17 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Sacred Fount’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Henry James’. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of James includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily. eBook features: * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Sacred Fount’ * Beautifully illustrated with images related to James’s works * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook * Excellent formatting of the textPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to learn more about our wide range of titles
Download or read book The Sacred Frout Annotated Includes Essay and Biography written by Henry James and published by Golgotha Press. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sacred Fount came immediately before what is considered the period of Henry James' greatest achievement as a writer. In spite of this, The Sacred Fount is one of James' least admired works. Critics at the time lambasted it and that early criticism has not helped its reputation in the over a hundred and ten years since its publication. The novel was published in 1901, by Scribner's in New York and by Methuen in London. It is the only one of James' novels to be narrated in the first person. The narrator is never named.
Download or read book The Sacred Fount written by Henry JAMES and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James (New York, April 15, 1843-London, February 28, 1916) was an American writer and literary critic, British nationalized at the end of his life, who is known for his novels and stories based on the point technique of view, which allows the psychological analysis of the characters from within"Man is the sum of his fantasies." Henry James
Download or read book The Sacred Fount written by HardPress and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Annotations Upon the Holy Bible Wherein the Sacred Text is Inserted and Various Readings Annex d Together with the Parallel Scriptures The More Difficult Terms in Each Yerse Explained Seeming Contradictions Reconciled Questiond and Doubts Resolved And the Whole Text Opened by the late Reverend M Matthew Poole Vol II being a continuation of Mr Pool s sic worke by certain judicious and learned divines written by Matthew Poole and published by . This book was released on 1700 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annotations Upon the Holy Bible Wherein the Sacred Text is Inserted and Various Readings Annexed By Matthew Pool written by and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Sacred Fount written by Henry James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. One of James's strangest works, The Sacred Fount, explores ideas of sexual desire and power in an English country house setting. The novel aroused considerable critical bewilderment and hostility on its original publication in 1901 but was retrieved by a subsequent generation of critics who found its ambiguity and stylistic elaboration an instance of James's 'mastery' and an early example of literary modernism. This is the first critical edition of James' landmark text and is supported by a full critical apparatus including introduction, notes, glossary, textual variants and bibliography. The volume will be of interest to researchers, scholars and advanced students of Henry James, and of nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and American fiction and literature.
Download or read book A view of the evidences of Christianity With annotations by R Whately written by William Paley and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annotations Upon the Holy Bible Wherein the Sacred Text is Inserted and Various Readings Annex d Together with the Parallel Scriptures The More Difficult Terms in Each Yerse Explained Seeming Contradictions Reconciled Questiond and Doubts Resolved And the Whole Text Opened written by Matthew Poole and published by . This book was released on 1700 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Psalms of David in Metre with Annotations by the Late Rev John Brown A New and Improved Edition With Translations Paraphrases in Verse of Several Passages of Sacred Scripture written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Sacred Fount written by Henry James and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book An Annotated Critical Bibliography of Henry James written by Nicola Bradbury and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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