Description
In Henry James’s haunting meditation on identity and regret, a man returns to his childhood home and confronts an unsettling question: what might his life have become if he had chosen differently. As he moves through familiar rooms and memories, he begins to sense an alternate presence—an imagined “other” self—forcing him to grapple with ambition, loss, and the private costs of staying on one path. Blending psychological realism with ghostly ambiguity, the novel explores how the mind manufactures meaning from absence and how the past can feel both intimate and alien. With James’s signature precision of perception and richly layered interiority, this is a suspenseful, philosophical journey into the shadows of possibility.
Available Editions
paperback
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published Jan 1, 2017
106 pages
ISBN: 9781977572165
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Details
First Published
1908
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Jolly Corner by Henry James.