Graham Fielder returns from Europe to Newport to find himself heir to a huge fortune made by ruthless means, while his old friend Horton Vint stands ready to manage it for him. James wrote three books and part of a fourth in the summer of 1914 before setting it aside; this edition prints the fragment with his working notes and a preface by Percy Lubbock.
Unfinished, yet among James’s sharpest looks at American wealth, and a window into how he planned a novel. Download the free EPUB.