The Beast in the Jungle
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ISBN10: 1539346560
ISBN13: 9781539346562
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 5 2016
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781539346562
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 5 2016
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
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.
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