Author: Henry James

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-20

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9780483503311

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Excerpt from Pictures and Other Passages From Henry James The pleasure of my discovery was the greater in that not one of my contemporaries shared my enthusiasm - it was a secret garden of which I alone possessed the key, and in which I could pass golden hours, with the power there acquired of making my own life into a garden too, where common things were no longer boring but endowed with a curious significance, and every smile or fluttering eyelid had its own interest and peculiar meaning. I did not even possess one of these magic volumes as yet - that came later with the Tauchnitz editions and the second-hand copies, found by rare and happy chance on bookstalls at stations or in booksellers' sales. In those early days the precious volumes were brought home to read at twopence a time from the lending library, and taken out again and again until they became in this laborious way really a part of myself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Pictures and Other Passages From Henry James (Classic Reprint) written by Henry James and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Pictures and Other Passages From Henry James The pleasure of my discovery was the greater in that not one of my contemporaries shared my enthusiasm - it was a secret garden of which I alone possessed the key, and in which I could pass golden hours, with the power there acquired of making my own life into a garden too, where common things were no longer boring but endowed with a curious significance, and every smile or fluttering eyelid had its own interest and peculiar meaning. I did not even possess one of these magic volumes as yet - that came later with the Tauchnitz editions and the second-hand copies, found by rare and happy chance on bookstalls at stations or in booksellers' sales. In those early days the precious volumes were brought home to read at twopence a time from the lending library, and taken out again and again until they became in this laborious way really a part of myself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.