Reviews for The Pupil

The average rating for The Pupil based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-09-24 00:00:00 Kristoffer Eriksen I'm not sure what to make of this novella by Henry James. I'm trying so hard to get on with his writing but I just don't think it's for me. I enjoyed 'Washington Square' and that was about it, others I have tried and given up early on because his style of writing is just a drag.. Maybe I'm not intellectual enough for his work, but either way I don't find much pleasure in reading his stuff - sorry.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-03-12 00:00:00 George Trueman When does an investment in another person doubly compensate as an investment in oneself, and when does it not? This is one of my favorite middle-period James novellas. A penniless young tutor is hired by a family of eccentric ex-patriot Americans to educate their prodigy son while they move from hotel to hotel to stay ahead of creditors. The education happens in both directions, and its final results are complicated and incomprehensible to characters outside the tutor and pupil relationship. "When he tried to figure to himself the morning twilight of childhood, so as to deal with it safely, he perceived that it was never fixed, never arrested, that ignorance, at the instance one touched it, was already flushing faintly into knowledge, that there was nothing that at a given moment you could say a clever child didn't know."