Description
At a weekend retreat in the English countryside, an unnamed narrator—arriving alone and observing keenly—becomes preoccupied with the private lives of the guests around him. As he watches shifts in temperament, age, and confidence, he begins to suspect that love and desire may be less a refuge than a kind of exchange, as if someone is drawing from a “sacred fount” that cannot be replenished. Henry James’s only first-person novel, written with his signature psychological acuity, turns social comedy into a probing study of intimacy, secrecy, and the stories people tell themselves to justify what they want. With each conversation and impression, the narrator’s theories deepen into a meditation on moral ambiguity, the costs of romantic entanglement, and the unsettling power of perception.
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paperback
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Published Jan 30, 1999
ISBN: 9781556856051
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First Published
1901
Language
eng
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