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The Other House

Henry James

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A dramatic tale of passion and unrequited love, involving a deathbed promise, murder and a cover-up, all of which takes place in a tight-knit community of people.
Josh 08/07/2021
One of James' least-loved works, both as a novel and a play. I actually enjoyed it, but it does require some suspension of disbelief. The plot revolves around the mysterious murder of a child, a drama of abnormal psychology modelled after Ibsen. The trick (for me) was to mostly ignore these elements
John 02/18/2012
Read in the 70s in a graduate-level seminar I took as an undergraduate English major. In a study written for that class, I labeled this 1896 tale a "sensationalistic novel of thwarted love and murder" (which I see now should've read "murder and thwarted love") and went on to explore in detail how Ib
Justin 03/23/2011
Worst James I've read? Certainly. I recognize that there are reasons for that: this was meant to be a play, and he's much better at understated moral turmoil than understated murderous rage. And if you're interested in James' career you'll want to read this at some point. But in itself? It reads lik
Eileen 05/18/2010
Brain is not working right now, so rough notes only. HJ is obviously transitioning from the play to the novel form, as shown in all the very clear scene delineations from one chapter to another. New character interaction = new scene. Difficult to get through, probably because it was hard to engage w

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