| The Beast in the Jungle Contributor(s): James, Henry (Author) |
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ISBN: 1539346560 ISBN-13: 9781539346562 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $9.98 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Alternative History |
| Physical Information: 0.2" H x 5" W x 7.99" (0.23 lbs) 96 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Beast in the Jungle is a 1903 novella by Henry James. Almost universally considered one of James' finest short narratives, this story treats appropriately universal themes: loneliness, fate, love and death. John Marcher, the protagonist, is reacquainted with May Bartram, a woman he knew ten years earlier, who remembers his odd secret: Marcher is seized with the belief that his life is to be defined by some catastrophic or spectacular event, lying in wait for him like a "beast in the jungle." May decides to buy a house in London with the money she inherited from a great aunt, and to spend her days with Marcher, curiously awaiting what fate has in store for him. Marcher is a hopeless egoist, who believes that he is precluded from marrying so that he does not subject his wife to his "spectacular fate". |