The Beast in the Jungle is a 1903 novella by Henry James, first published as part of the collection, The Better Sort. John Marcher, the protagonist, is reacquainted with May Bartram, a woman he knew ten years earlier, who remembers his odd secret: Marcher is seized with the belief that his life is to be defined by some catastrophic or spectacular event, lying in wait for him like a "beast in the jungle." May decides to buy a house in London with the money she inherited from a great aunt, and to spend her days with Marcher, curiously awaiting what fate has in store for him. Marcher is a hopeless fatalist, who believes that he is precluded from marrying so that he does not subject his wife to his "spectacular fate".

Media	Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released	February 10, 2018
ISBN13	9781985238213
Publishers	Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages	52
Dimensions	152 × 229 × 3 mm · 81 g
Language	English

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