Beast in the Jungle by Henry James, Fiction, Classics, Literary, Alternative History, Short Stories (Paperback)

from proustitute

James is my second favorite writer, after Proust, of course. "The Beast in the Jungle" is probably his most masterful tale-novella or short story, you decide-and it's one that I've read at least twenty times. While many of my readings have been colored by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's now canonical ess...

from williecostello

The Beast in the Jungle is a gemlike encapsulation of everything James does so well. Told in a brisk seventy-five pages, the story offers an amount of psychological depth, observation, and insight which most full-length novels don't even approach. Most notable in my opinion, however, is how the s...

from proustitute

James is my second favorite writer, after Proust, of course. "The Beast in the Jungle" is probably his most masterful tale-novella or short story, you decide-and it's one that I've read at least twenty times. While many of my readings have been colored by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's now canonical ess...

from williecostello

The Beast in the Jungle is a gemlike encapsulation of everything James does so well. Told in a brisk seventy-five pages, the story offers an amount of psychological depth, observation, and insight which most full-length novels don't even approach. Most notable in my opinion, however, is how the s...

from AliceAnna

Total complete blather ... crap ... pretentious drivel ... I didn't like it much.