ISBN: 9781514365359

Henry James's novella In the Cage tells the story of a young women, the betrothed of Mr Mudge, who works at a post-office counter sending telegrams mostly from the idle rich to their fell… Plus…

Henry James's novella In the Cage tells the story of a young women, the betrothed of Mr Mudge, who works at a post-office counter sending telegrams mostly from the idle rich to their fellows to arrange their meetings, parties and other affairs. Concerned, as ever, with the plight of the not so well-to-do-and particularly the role and circumstances of women-James finely delineates our heroine's increasing preoccupation with Captain Everard for whom she sends a considerable number of messages and about whom she has increasingly warm thoughts: people of her sort... didn't count as infidelity, counted only as something else: she might have been curious, since it came to that, to see exactly as what.In the Cage (written in the same year as the more well-known The Turn of the Screw is a sly, slight, vaguely sentimental work but one that acts as a fine introduction to this most convoluted of writers. Exact (exacting yet with a pointillist's precision) is the word most often used to describe James's prose but very often the modern reader will find his hesitant, pedantic, clause-heavy sentences difficult to follow, overlong and tortuously complex. But the key to reading and enjoying James is in succumbing to those very sentences, allowing his perfect ear and fine metre to establish its own rhythm, letting it guide one's response to his beautiful, matchless use of language. Trade Books>Trade Paperback>Romance>Contemporary Romance>Contemporary Romance, CreateSpace Publishing Core >1<

ISBN: 9781514365359

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], In the cage is a novella about a woman who works in London as a telegraphist. The unnamed protagonist of this story do displa… Plus…

Paperback, [PU: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform], In the cage is a novella about a woman who works in London as a telegraphist. The unnamed protagonist of this story do display a lively imagination and a nearly photographic memory, and a particular attitude in reading other people's telegrams, being aware of many secrets... This book was first published in 1898 in London by Ducworth Overlook. Henry James (1843-1916), who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1911, 1912 and 1916, was american but he spent the most of his career in Britain. He is still one of the most important writers of the 19th-century. This book contains a special note on Henry James by Joseph Conrad (Henry James. An appreciation, 1905) and a detailed bibliography including all the publications of the Author. Chapters: Chapter I Chapter II Chapter III Chapter IV Chapter V Chapter VI Chapter VII Chapter VIII Chapter IX Chapter X Chapter XI Chapter XII Chapter XIII Chapter XIV Chapter XV Chapter XVI Chapter XVII Chapter XVIII Chapter XIX Chapter XX Chapter XXI Chapter XXII Chapter XXIII Chapter XXIV Chapter XXV Chapter XXVI Chapter XXVII Henry James. An Appreciation Bibliography, Classics<

ISBN: 1514365359

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