The Beast in the Jungle (Dodo Press) (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 PilgrimJess

"It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything. " At a party John Marcher meets May Bartram whom he had met many years before. May recalls a strange confession he made on that occasion and so they begin a long, but uncommitted rela...