The American scene

The American sceneThe following pages duly explain themselves, I judge, as to the Authors point of view...
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Author: James, Henry,1843-1916
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Language: English
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The American scene

The American scene

€6,27

The American scene

€6,27
Author: James, Henry,1843-1916
Format: eBook
Language: English

The American scene

The following pages duly explain themselves, I judge, as to the Authors point of view and his relation to his subject; but I prefix this word on the chance of any suspected or perceived failure of such references. My visit to America had been the first possible to me for nearly a quarter of a century, and I had before my last previous one, brief and distant to memory, spent other years in continuous absence; so that I was to return with much of the freshness of eye, outward and inward, which, with the further contribution of a state of desire, is commonly held a precious agent of perception. I felt no doubt, I confess, of my great advantage on that score; since if I had had time to become almost as fresh as an inquiring stranger, I had not on the other hand had enough to cease to be, or at least to feel, as acute as an initiated native. I made no scruple of my conviction that I should understand and should care better and more than the most earnest of visitors, and yet that I should vibrate with more curiosityon the extent of ground, that is, on which I might aspire to intimate intelligence at allthan the pilgrim with the longest list of questions, the sharpest appetite for explanations and the largest exposure to mistakes. I felt myself then, all serenely, not exposed to grave mistakesthough there were also doubtless explanations which would find me, and quite as contentedly, impenetrable. I would take my stand on my gathered impressions, since it was all for them, for them only, that I returned; I would in fact go to the stake for themwhich is a sign of the value that I both in particular and in general attach to them and that I have endeavoured vito preserve for them in this transcription. My cultivated sense of aspects and prospects affected me absolutely as an enrichment of my subject, and I was prepared to abide by the law of that sensethe appearance that it would react promptly in some presences only to remain imperturbably inert in others. There would be a thousand mattersmatters already the theme of prodigious reports and statisticsas to which I should have no sense whatever, and as to information about which my record would accordingly stand naked and unashamed. It should unfailingly be proved against me that my opportunity had found me incapable of information, incapable alike of receiving and of imparting it; for then, and then only, would it be clearly enough attested that I had cared and understood. There are features of the human scene, there are properties of the social air, that the newspapers, reports, surveys and blue-books would seem to confess themselves powerless to handle, and that yet represented to me a greater array of items, a heavier expression of character, than my own pair of scales would ever weigh, keep them as clear for it as I might. I became aware soon enough, on the spot, that these elements of the human subject, the results of these attempted appreciations of life itself, would prove much too numerous even for a capacity all given to them for some ten months; but at least therefore, artistically concerned as I had been all my days with the human subject, with the appreciation of life itself, and with the consequent question of literary representation, I should not find such matters scant or simple. I was not in fact to do so, and they but led me on and on. How far this might have been my several chapters show; and yet even here I fall short. I shall have to take a few others for the rest of my story. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 68717
Author: James, Henry
Release Date: Aug 8, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Chapman and Hall
Publication Date: 1907
Publisher Country: United Kingdom

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