It was the truth, vivid and monstrous, that all the while he had waited the wait was itself his portion.

Brilliant. ( )

I'm afraid these three short stories/novellas will go for me in the Henry James I have read and utterly failed to understand. I grasped something in each of them as they started and then utterly lost the thread of his point and ended up baffled. I know for some that is all of Henry James but I have enjoyed both novels and short stories.Just not these.

Always interesting to read James, but I don't think these are his best work. [Turn of the Screw] is far better. Although I do admire these stories for his ability to write about a love so subtle that perhaps it is only routine. ( )