Fiction · 1903
The Beast in the Jungle
John Marcher has spent his life convinced that some rare, momentous fate — for good or terrible — is waiting to spring on him, a conviction he confides only to May Bartram, who quietly shares the long vigil with him for years, until Marcher finally understands, too late, what the waiting itself cost him.
Henry James published "The Beast in the Jungle" in 1903, among the best known of his later, more introspective short fiction, and often read as his own most direct statement on a life not fully lived.
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1843–1916 · Victorian
Henry James (1843–1916) was born in New York City, the son of a theologian and brother of the philosopher William James, and educated in Europe and America. He settled in England in 1876 and became a British subject in 1915. Among his novels are Roderick Hudson, The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Bostonians, What Maisie Knew, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl; among his tales, Daisy Miller, The Aspern Papers and The Turn of the Screw (1898).
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