Great Novels 19: The Altar of the Dead

by Henry James

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He had done many things in the world - he had done almost all but one: he had never, never forgotten. He had tried to put into his existence whatever else might take up room in it, but had failed to make it more than a house of which the mistress was eternally absent. She was most absent of all on the recurrent December day that his tenacity set apart. He had no arranged observance of it, but his nerves made it all their own. They drove him forth without mercy, and the goal of his pilgrimage was far. She had been buried in a London suburb, a part then of Nature's breast, but which he had seen lose one after another every feature of freshness.
  • ISBN13 9781365705090
  • Publish Date 24 January 2017
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 25 June 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Lulu.com
  • Format eBook (OEB)
  • Language English