The Beast In The Jungle - 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

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Oct 05, 2016

Number of Pages: 96 pages

Language: English

Binding: Paperback

ISBN-10: 1539346560

ISBN-13: 9781539346562