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This terse and startling novel, written just before The Spoils of Poynton and What Maisie Knew, is the story of a struggle for possession--and of its devastating consequences. Three women seek to secure the affections of one man, while he, in turn, tries to satisfy them all. But in the middle of this contest of wills stands his unwitting and vulnerable young daughter. The conclusion of The Other House makes it one of the most disturbing and memorable of Henry James's depictions of the uncontrollable passions that lie beneath the polished veneer of civilized life.
The Other House is the story of a brutal crime, and its violence is not duplicated in any of Henry James's other works.... [It] takes place in broad British daylight, and the passions which explode in it with such force are acted out on disciplined lawns between stately British houses, deriving their well-founded security from a banking fortune. The Other House is intensely British in its motives and emotions; and its intensity derives precisely from the fact that when the calm is broken, and the conflict...is engaged the contrast is as of a violent rush of air into a place of quiet.
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Myra Moore
reviewed Other House (New York Review of Books Classics Series) on October 03, 2010
Other House (New York Review of Books Classics Series)
This is an interesting, odd book, if only because it seems so different from any other Henry James I've read. Here, he is forthright, less obtuse, less wordy and less allusive. The evil in the story is chilling, and the theme of the power and drive of sexual attraction seems contemporary.
He wrote this after his plays were widely panned, but he must've learned something about play-writing, as I can easily see this being turned into a play or a movie; the plotting and dialogue are especially fine. This is well worth reading for those interested in the work of Henry James.
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