Wings of the Dove, The

By James, Henry

Book Id: WPLBN0002953330
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File Size: 581.53 MB
Reproduction Date: 2009

Title:	Wings of the Dove, The
Author:	James, Henry
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Fiction, Literature
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Wings of the Dove, The
Historic Publication Date:	1909
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago James, B. H. (1909). Wings of the Dove, The. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

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The Wings of the Dove, published in 1902, represents to my memory a very old--if I shouldn't perhaps rather say a very young--motive; I can scarce remember the time when the situation on which this long-drawn fiction mainly rests was not vividly present to me. The idea, reduced to its essence, is that of a young person conscious of a great capacity for life, but early stricken and doomed, condemned to die under short respite, while also enamoured of the world; aware moreover of the condemnation and passionately desiring to put in before extinction as many of the finer vibrations as possible, and so achieve, however briefly and brokenly, the sense of having lived. (summary taken from the Preface by Henry James)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

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Fiction, Literature