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    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘The Beast in the Jungle’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Henry James’.

    Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of James includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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    * The complete unabridged text of ‘The Beast in the Jungle’
    * Beautifully illustrated with images related to James’s works
    * Individual contents table, allowing easy navigation around the eBook
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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPublishdrive
    Release dateJul 17, 2017
    ISBN9781786569882
    The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James (Illustrated)
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    Henry James

    Henry James was born in New York in 1843, the younger brother of the philosopher William James, and was educated in Europe and America. He left Harvard Law School in 1863, after a year's attendance, to concentrate on writing, and from 1869 he began to make prolonged visits to Europe, eventually settling in England in 1876. His literary output was both prodigious and of the highest quality: more than ten outstanding novels including his masterpiece, The Portrait of a Lady; countless novellas and short stories; as well as innumerable essays, letters, and other pieces of critical prose. Known by contemporary fellow novelists as 'the Master', James died in Kensington, London, in 1916.

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      The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James (Illustrated) - Henry James

      The Complete Works of

      HENRY JAMES

      VOLUME 30 OF 65

      The Beast in the Jungle

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2016

      Version 10

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘The Beast in the Jungle’

      Henry James: Parts Edition (in 65 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78656 988 2

      Delphi Classics

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      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

      Contact: sales@delphiclassics.com

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      Henry James: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 30 of the Delphi Classics edition of Henry James in 65 Parts. It features the unabridged text of The Beast in the Jungle from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Henry James, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Henry James or the Complete Works of Henry James in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      HENRY JAMES

      IN 65 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Novels

      1, Watch and Ward

      2, Roderick Hudson

      3, The American

      4, The Europeans

      5, Confidence

      6, Washington Square

      7, The Portrait of a Lady

      8, The Bostonians

      9, The Princess Casamassima

      10, The Reverberator

      11, The Tragic Muse

      12, The Other House

      13, The Spoils of Poynton

      14, What Maisie Knew

      15, The Awkward Age

      16, The Sacred Fount

      17, The Wings of the Dove

      18, The Ambassadors

      19, The Golden Bowl

      20, The Outcry

      21, The Whole Family

      22, The Ivory Tower

      23, The Sense of the Past

      The Novellas

      24, Daisy Miller

      25, The Aspern Papers

      26, A London Life

      27, The Lesson of the Master

      28, The Turn of the Screw

      29, In the Cage

      30, The Beast in the Jungle

      The Tales

      31, The Complete Tales

      The Plays

      32, Pyramus and Thisbe

      33, Still Waters

      34, A Change of Heart

      35, Daisy Miller

      36, Tenants

      37, Disengaged

      38, The Album

      39, The Reprobate

      40, Guy Domville

      41, Summersoft

      42, The High Bid

      43, The Outcry

      The Travel Writing

      44, Transatlantic Sketches

      45, Portraits of Places

      46, A Little Tour in France

      47, English Hours

      48, The American Scene

      49, Italian Hours

      The Non-Fiction

      50, French Novelists and Poets

      51, Hawthorne

      52, Partial Portraits

      53, Essays in London and Elsewhere

      54, Picture and Text

      55, William Wetmore Story and His Friends

      56, Views and Reviews

      57, Notes on Novelists

      58, Within the Rim and Other Essays

      59, Notes and Reviews

      60, The Art of the Novel

      The Letters

      61, The Letters of Henry James

      The Autobiographies

      62, A Small Boy and Others

      63, Notes of a Son and Brother

      64, The Middle Years

      The Criticism

      65, The Criticism

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      The Beast in the Jungle

      This 1903 novella was first published as part of the story collection The Better Sort. It is considered to be one of James’ finest short narratives, which tackles universal themes of loneliness, fate, love and death. The story introduces the protagonist John Marcher, who is reacquainted with May Bartram, a woman he knew ten years earlier.  She remembers that he once told of her of 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 waiting for what fate has in store for him.

      The celebrated New York Edition of the text is provided in this collection.

      The first edition

      CONTENTS

      CHAPTER I

      CHAPTER II

      CHAPTER III

      CHAPTER IV

      CHAPTER V

      CHAPTER VI

      CHAPTER I

      What determined the speech that startled him in the course of their encounter scarcely matters, being probably but some words spoken by himself quite without intention — spoken as they lingered and slowly moved together after their renewal of acquaintance.  He had been conveyed by friends an hour or two before to the house at which she was staying; the party of visitors at the other house, of whom he was one, and thanks to whom it was his theory, as always, that he was lost in the crowd, had been invited over to luncheon.  There had been after luncheon much dispersal, all in the interest of the original motive, a view of Weatherend itself and the fine things, intrinsic features, pictures, heirlooms, treasures of all the arts, that made the place almost famous; and the great rooms were so numerous that guests could wander at their will, hang back from the principal group and in cases where they took such matters with the last seriousness give themselves up to mysterious appreciations and measurements.  There were persons to be observed, singly or in couples, bending toward objects in out-of-the-way corners with their hands on their knees and their heads nodding quite as with the emphasis of an excited sense of smell.  When they were two they either mingled their sounds of ecstasy or melted into silences of even deeper import, so that there were aspects of the occasion that gave it for Marcher much the air of the look round, previous to a sale highly advertised, that excites or quenches, as may be, the dream of acquisition.  The dream of acquisition at Weatherend would have had to be wild indeed,

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