The Awkward Age - Henry James - Books - - 9798669908669 - November 1, 2020
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Henry James
The Awkward Age

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Book Excerpt: ...e in question at all, and that has condemned the freedom of the circle to be self- conscious, compunctious, on the whole much more timid than brave--the consequent muddle, if the term be not too gross, representing meanwhile a great inconvenience for life, but, as I found myself feeling, an immense promise, a much greater one than on the "foreign" showing, for the painted picture of life. Beyond which let me add that here immediately is a prime specimen of the way in which the obscurer, the lurking relations of a motive apparently simple, always in wait for their spring, may by seizing their chance for it send simplicity flying. Poor Nanda's little case, and her mother's, and Mr. Longdon's and Vanderbank's and Mitchy's, to say nothing of that of the others, has only to catch a reflected light from over the Channel in order to double at once its appeal to the imagination. (I am considering all these matters, I need scarce say, only as they are concerned with that faculty. With a relation NOT imaginative to his...

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 1, 2020
ISBN13 9798669908669
Pages 340
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 19 mm   ·   498 g
Language English  

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