![]() ![]() Our most available re-issue, the Penguin reprint of the English edition of 1902, fails to show the two-volume "appointed halves" in any way. What this meant will be obvious only to the tiny fraction of readers who use the early two-volume editions of The Wings of the Dove, but not to the rest who use reprints and pore over R. His anguish reappears, however, as he faces up to his "regular failure to keep the appointed halves of my whole equal" (AN 302). James was only able to reconcile himself to the discrepancy between execution and intention by elevating it into a principle of art in general authors' intentions are necessarily altered in the course of composition. His rereading ceases to inspire in him the usual renewed sense of "fun," but rather, this time, of failure: "to retrace the way at present is, alas more than anything else, to mark the gaps and the lapses, to miss, one by one, the intentions that, with the best will in the world, were not to fructify" (AN 276). ![]() Henry James's Remorse For The Wings of the Dove by George McFadden About halfway through the preface to The Wings of the Dove, on beginning to deal with Kate Croy, Henry James appears to suffer a highly uncharacteristic breakdown. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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