The Beast in the Jungle (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781539346562)

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".

Author: Henry James
ISBN-10: 1539346560
ISBN-13: 9781539346562
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 10/05/2016
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.23lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.20d