Author : Henry James
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781674682785
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (827 download)
Book Synopsis The Finer Grain by : Henry James
Download or read book The Finer Grain written by Henry James and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HE thought he had already, poor John Berridge, tasted in their fulness the sweets of success; but nothing yet had been more charming to him than when the young Lord, as he irresistibly and, for greater certitude, quite correctly figured him, fairly sought out, in Paris, the new literary star that had begun to hang, with a fresh red light, over the vast, even though rather confused, Anglo-Saxon horizon; positively approaching that celebrity with a shy and artless appeal. The young Lord invoked on this occasion the celebrity's prized judgment of a special literary case; and Berridge could take the whole manner of it for one of the "quaintest" little acts displayed to his amused eyes, up to now, on the stage of European society-albeit these eyes were quite aware, in general, of missing everywhere no more of the human scene than possible, and of having of late been particularly awake to the large extensions of it spread before him (since so he could but fondly read his fate) under the omen of his prodigious "hit."