The Beast in the Jungle
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- First published
- 1903
- Pages
- 56
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01 - Chapter I
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02 - Chapter II
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03 - Chapter III
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04 - Chapter IV
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05 - Chapter V
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06 - Chapter VI
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The Beast in the Jungle is a novella by Henry James, first published in 1903 as part of the collection "The Better Sort". This story is thought to be one of James’ finest short records, treating universal themes such as loneliness, fate, love, and death.
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What determined the speech that startled him in the course of their encounter scarcely matters, being probably but some words spoken by himself quite without intention—spoken as they lingered and slowly moved together after their renewal of acquaintance. He had been conveyed by friends an hour or two before to the house at which she was staying; the party of visitors at the other house, of whom he was one, and thanks to whom it was his theory, as always, that he was lost in the crowd, had been invited over to luncheon. There had been after luncheon much dispersal, all in the interest of the original motive, a view of Weatherend itself and the fine things, intrinsic features, pictures, heirlooms, treasures of all the arts, that made the place almost famous; and the great rooms were so numerous that guests could wander at their will, hang back from the principal group and in cases where they took such matters with the last seriousness give themselves up to mysterious appreciations and measurements. There were persons to be observed, singly or in couples, bending toward objects in out-of-the-way corners with their hands on their knees and their heads nodding quite as with the emphasis of an excited sense of smell. When they were two they either mingled their sounds of ecstasy or melted into silences of even deeper import, so that there were aspects of the occasion that gave it for Marcher much the air of the “look round,” previous to a sale highly advertised, that excites or quenches, as may be, the dream of acquisition. The dream of acquisition at Weatherend would have had to be wild indeed, and John Marcher found himself, among such suggestions, disconcerted almost equally by the presence of those who knew too much and by that of those who knew nothing. The great rooms caused so much poetry and history to press upon him that he needed some straying apart to feel in a proper relation with them, though this impulse was not, as happened, like the gloating of some of his companions, to be compared to the movements of a dog sniffing a cupboard. It had an issue promptly enough in a direction that was not to have been calculated.
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Book facts
- Author
- Henry James
- First published
- 1903
- Reading time
- About 80 minutes
- Pages
- 56
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Victorian Era
- Formats
- PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
- Audio read by
- Rob James