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Henry JamesThe Wings of the Dove (August 22, 2009)

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Librivox recording of The Wings of the Dove by Henry James.
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"The Wings of the Dove," published in 1902, represents to my memory a very old--if I shouldn't perhaps rather say a very young--motive; I can scarce remember the time when the situation on which this long-drawn fiction mainly rests was not vividly present to me. The idea, reduced to its essence, is that of a young person conscious of a great capacity for life, but early stricken and doomed, condemned to die under short respite, while also enamoured of the world; aware moreover of the condemnation and passionately desiring to "put in" before extinction as many of the finer vibrations as possible, and so achieve, however briefly and brokenly, the sense of having lived. (summary taken from the Preface by Henry James)

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Artist/Composer: Henry James
Date: 2009-08-22
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: audiobooks; librivox; fiction; English literature; literary realism

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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