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The Figure in the Carpet

The Figure in the Carpet

James, Henry

Paperback

Series: Classic Henry James

Classic Fiction

ISBN10: 1979342423
ISBN13: 9781979342421
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Nov 1 2017
Pages: 32
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.07 Width: 7.01 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
The narrator, a writer for a literary newspaper, prides himself on his astute review of Hugh Vereker's latest novel. Vereker inadvertently dismisses his efforts, and then to repair his incivility, confides in the narrator that all critics have missed my little point, the particular thing I've written my books most for, the thing for the critic to find, my secret, like a complex figure in a Persian carpet. The narrator racks his brains and, in desperation, tells his friend Corvick of the puzzle. Corvick and his novelist fianc

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