The works of late Henry James are certainly very challenging, especially the three pinnacles, I mean, the dove, the ambassadors and the bowl, all with an obvious tinge of modernism. They could be put in the same category with the works of Woolf and Joyce. I think anybody who wants to try them should not read too fast and dance in the same tempo with Henry James. Maisie is not as late as these three, but I can still predict what will confront us, a quasi late James. We should get prepared for it.
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