The Convent
When Newman first encounters the vast walls of the Carmelite convent where Claire plans to live out her days, he's totally puzzled. He thinks of the convent as a "[…] page torn out of a romance,...
Letters
Very VerboseNewman writes up a storm in The American. Of course, he's modest about it. While Newman is gallivanting around Europe, he confesses to Mrs. Tristram that he's a "miserable letter writer...
The Hearth
Of course, it wouldn't be a Henry James novel without a cozy fire burning in a hearth at home…and intricate, genius psychological realism, of course.Dang, Henry James is just so. good.Ahem. Back...