Third Person

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Published 1900 onward, Humorous Fiction, Single Author Collections

Authors: Henry James In Year : 1900

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Third Person

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Chapter 5

The Third Person is an amusing spoof on spooking. The 'ghostly man about the house' in whom two increasingly competitive maiden ladies come to take a proprietary interest is as unlikely to inspire terror as the wraith in one of James's earliest tales. The anticlimactic crisis may need a footnote for younger readers: a Tauchnitz was an unauthorized continental paperback edition of a British or American book which, purely for copyright reasons, was not supposed to be brought back to England. To think of this as smuggling certainly placed, for James's contemporaries, the crimes of the ghostly third person in a hilarious perspective. (Summary by Anthony Orr)