I am not sure the extent of your James reading but leaping from WS to GB could prove frustrating. He wrote no two more dissimilar works. “The American” might be a good next step or the delightful “The Bostonians.” I loved every page of those novels. His works after 1897 have a significantly different timbre.
This post is delicious like my idea of the perfect Christmas dinner. No, not fish, but a potpourri of wonderful dishes, kind of like the Spanish tapas where there is crunch and zest and creaminess! nicely done.
Have you read The Ambassadors or Wings of the Dove? I love these two for their wickedness.
no! will put on my list. Have read portrait of a lady, aspern papers, turn of the screw, daisy miller
I am not sure the extent of your James reading but leaping from WS to GB could prove frustrating. He wrote no two more dissimilar works. “The American” might be a good next step or the delightful “The Bostonians.” I loved every page of those novels. His works after 1897 have a significantly different timbre.
Fascinating analysis of Washington Sq by the way. That was a delight to revisit Ms Sloper’s travails, painful and cruel as they were.
This post is delicious like my idea of the perfect Christmas dinner. No, not fish, but a potpourri of wonderful dishes, kind of like the Spanish tapas where there is crunch and zest and creaminess! nicely done.