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 The Sense of the
Past
- The Ghostly Stories of
- Henry James
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- Introduction by Glen Cavaliero
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- These
seventeen sensitive, subtle ghostly stories, including
the unfinished novel, The Sense of the
Past, represent the sum total of Henry
James's supernaturalist fiction, and confirm his position
as one of the foremost exponents of the 'psychological'
tale. Dating from as early as the 1870s into the first
years of the twentieth century, James's stories were a
major influence on later British writers in the genre,
particularly Walter de la Mare and L.P. Hartley.
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- As Glen
Cavaliero points out in his new Introduction, James, in
his 'highly idiosyncratic and mercilessly precise' prose
fashions 'a number of differing portrayals of how psychic
agencies control the behaviour and the private dramas of
people who move within an implacable but unseen moral
universe. In these stories that universe is made known
through the operative presence of the past.'
The Sense of the Past can be seen as
'his most ambitious attempt to describe the relationship
between past and present'.
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- In the
best-known of these stories, the masterly 'The Turn of
the Screw', Henry James perfectly realises his method,
wherein the ghostly presences rely almost entirely upon
the credibility of the person witnessing them. In other
stories they are invisible or conjured up by intuition or
extra-sensory perception or, as in 'The Private Life',
manifest themselves in an altogether more playful form.
The Sense of the Past: The Ghostly
Stories of Henry James will acquaint aficionados
of supernaturalist fiction with a major contribution to
the genre by one of the giants of English literature.
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- Contents: ' Introduction' by Glen
Cavaliero', The Romance of Certain Old Clothes', 'De
Grey: A Romance', 'The Last of the Valerii', 'The Ghostly
Rental', 'Sir Edmund Orme', 'The Private Life', 'Owen
Wingrave', 'The Altar of the Dead', 'The Friends of the
Friends', 'The Turn of the Screw', 'The Real Right
Thing', 'The Great Good Place', 'Maud-Evelyn', 'The Third
Person', 'The Beast in the Jungle', 'The Jolly Corner',
'The Sense of The Past', 'Notes for The Sense of the
Past.
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- ISBN:
978-1-872621-99-9
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- The
Sense of the Past is a sewn hardback of 657+ xi
pages.
- Limited
to 300 copies.
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- Price
£35/$70 inc. p&p.
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updated 1st July 2008
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