Henry James

The Awkward Age Henry James

Excerpt from The Awkward Age: A Novel

Yet I must first make a brave face, no doubt, and present in its native humility my scant but quite ponderable germ. The seed sprouted in that vast nursery of sharp appeals and concrete images which calls itself, for blest convenience, London it fell even into the order of the minor social phenomena with which, as fruit for the observer, that mightiest of the trees of suggestion bristles. It was not, no doubt, a.

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