At Homburg, in the days when the gaming tables still ran, the narrator meets his old schoolfellow Eugene Pickering, raised in strict seclusion by his father and promised from childhood to a girl he has never met. Free at last, Pickering falls under the spell of the clever widow Madame Blumenthal, and his education begins.
An early James novella of innocence and experience, a perfect introduction to his international theme. Download the free EPUB.