Four stories from James’s later middle period. A perfect butler is ruined by his master’s death in ‘Brooksmith’; an impoverished gentleman and his wife prove useless as artists’ models in ‘The Real Thing’; a flirtation is dissected in ‘The Story of It’; and in ‘Flickerbridge’ an American painter finds an unspoiled old English village he fears to praise.
A compact way into James at his most subtle, with ‘The Real Thing’ among the finest stories he wrote. Download the free EPUB.