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The Altar of the Dead

by Henry James

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George Stransom has kept faith for years with the memory of his lost fiancée, and as friends die he lights a candle for each at an altar in a London church. There he notices a woman who comes to pray just as faithfully, and slowly learns that her own devotion is bound up with the one man he refuses to honour.

A short, haunting study of grief, memory and forgiveness from James’s middle years. Download the free EPUB.

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