Henry James
Paperback | Pages: 48 pages Rating: 3.61 | 3510 Users | 317 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Beast in the Jungle |
| Author | : | Henry James |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 48 pages |
| Published | : | June 1st 2004 by Kessinger Publishing (first published 1903) |
| Categories | : | Classics. Fiction. Short Stories. Literature. American. Academic. School |
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Henry James, the master of psychological literature, is at it again disturbing readers with the story of a man who feels he might be missing something important in life -- a man who also has a secret, the unstated in his life now which will affect the future. The woman who loves him says it's "the sense of being kept for something rare and strange..." A complex and meaningful novella.Present Books In Pursuance Of The Beast in the Jungle
| Original Title: | The Beast in the Jungle |
| ISBN: | 1419153765 (ISBN13: 9781419153761) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | John Marcher, May Bartram |
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Ratings: 3.61 From 3510 Users | 317 ReviewsColumn Regarding Books The Beast in the Jungle
The writing's so dense, I might as well be reading a brick wall.I like the last few pages, but that's it.The reason I opened this book was because I needed a break from Swanns Way . Prousts writing, however beautiful, is tiring; and so I decided that a change would be in order. At the very least, I figured, I would be rejuvenated from the break, and able to plunge back into Prousts masterpiece, recharged. I could not possibly have picked a worse book for this task. James sentences, though falling short of Proustian proportions, are no easier on the brain. Remember that old cell-phone game, Snake?
Sharing can be considered, moral, ethical noble. One exception is the sharing of an identity. Yet it can be accomplished in such a way that sets the two sharing it apart, above others. Their lives can be molded, hardened in a kiln, and for them provide a lifes meaning as long as no else knows. As long through the years they maintain their investment and invisibility; appear to others as cloaked in the same ordinariness as the passing throngs.The shared trope of James Beast In The Jungle, is John
This is truly an unforgettable psychological portrait. John Marcher, the protagonist, is re-acquainted 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." Miss Bartram is stupefied by this, but does nothing to make him think that she thinks him odd for such a belief. In fact, she takes him very seriously
This is the stuff Greek tragedies are made of. Potent, beautiful and heart-breaking! This is a story about a man who lives in anticipation of something terrible that is to come, but when it happens he misses it. A woman, his best friend, warns him of it but it's too late. Could I see the ending? Yes, I most certainly could but somehow it didn't spoil the enjoyment of this story one bit.To a modern mind, The Beast In the Jungle might seem overblown, too emotional and not very convincing but
I had to read this for class. I usually don't enjoy this kind of "what's the meaning of life" books and this was no exception. I liked the fact that it was short and we found out the meaning and the "beast in the jungle" pretty quickly, but other than that this book just wasn't my cup of tea.
I don't usually include the novellas or short stories I read in my Goodreads lists because they are not what one would strictly call a "book" (James' novella is about 50 pages long). But I couldn't help adding this gem here accompanied by a review which, I hope, will do justice to its repressed (homosexual) nuances that make the story one of the most interesting and gripping stories I ever read in the first place. Indeed, one of those stories to which one is to return again and again, almost
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