The Beast In The Jungle - 9781985238213

The Beast in the Jungle is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection, The Better Sort. 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 fatalist, 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: Feb 10, 2018
• • Number of Pages: 50 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1985238217
• • ISBN-13: 9781985238213