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The Golden Bowl

By: Henry James

...Bowl” what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked invet eracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indee... ... of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, t... ...matter, for “seeing my story,” through the opportunity and the sensibility of some more or less detached, some not strictly involved, though thoroughl... ...s in the clean glass held up to so many of the “short stories” of our long list and yet after all never a whit to the prejudice of his being just as ... ...ether better literary manners of “The Ambassadors” and “The Golden Bowl”—a list I might much extend by the mention of several shorter pieces. Inevitab... ...s, wonderful secret places. We’ve been like a Book I, Chapter 1 9 pair of pirates—positively stage pirates, the sort who wink at each other and say ‘... ...own that these things in Charlotte Stant now affected him; items in a full list, items recognised, each of them, as if, for the long interval, they ha...

...many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with ?The Golden Bowl? what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked inveteracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, the very straightest and closest poss...

...Table of Contents: PREFACE, iii -- Volume I 3 -- Book I 3 -- Chapter 1, 3 -- Chapter 2, 15 -- Chapter 3, 25 -- Chapter 4, 35 -- Chapter 5, 50 -- Chapter 6, 58 -- Book II 69 -- Chapter 1, 69 -- Chapter 2, 79 -- Chapter 3, 85 -- Chap...

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