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The story is shaped around a young person who, despite a sense of life’s capacity, is early struck and condemned to die, while still passionately striving to experience “the finer vibrations” of the world before extinction. 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He spent much of his life in Europe and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for novels, novellas and short stories based on themes of consciousness and morality. James significantly contributed to the criticism of fiction, particularly in his insistence that writers be allowed the greatest freedom possible in presenting their view of the world. His imaginative use of point of view, interior monologue and possibly unreliable narrators in his own novels and tales brought a new depth and interest to narrative fiction. An extraordinarily productive writer, he published substantive books of travel writing, biography, autobiography and visual arts criticism. Source: Wikipedia  \nAlso available on Feedbooks James:  \n The Portrait of a Lady (1881)  \n The Turn of the Screw (1898)  \n The Beast in the Jungle (1903)  \n Daisy Miller (1879)  \n Hawthorne (1879)  \n The Golden Bowl (1904)  \n The Ambassadors (1903)  \n The Bostonians (1886)  \n A Bundle of Letters (1879)  \n The American Scene (1907)  \nNote: This book is brought to you by Feedbooks  \n[http://www.feedbooks.com](http://www.feedbooks.com)  \nStrictly for personal use, do not use this file for commercial purposes.  \nPreface  \n\"The Wings of the Dove,\" published in 1902, represents to my memory avery 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 a of [emendation: 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. Long had I turned it over, standing off from it, yet coming back to it; convinced of what might be done with it, yet seeing the theme as formidable. The image so figured would be, at best, but half the matter; the rest would be all the picture of the struggle involved, the adventure brought about, the gain recorded or the loss incurred, the precious experience somehow compassed. These things, I had from the first felt, would require much working-out; that indeed was the case with most things worth working at all; yet there are subjects and subjects, and this one seemed particularly to bristle. It was formed, I judged, to make the wary adventurer walk round and round it—it had in fact a charm that invited and mystified alike that attention; not being somehow what one thought of as a\"frank\" subject, after the fashion of some, with its elements well in view and its whole character in its face. It stood there with secrets and compartments, with possible treacheries and traps; it might have a great deal to give, but would probably ask for equal services in return, and would collect this debt to the last shilling. It involved, to begin with, the placing in the strongest light a person infirm and ill—a case sure to prove difficult and to require (vi) much handling; though giving perhaps, with other matters, one of those chances for good taste, possibly even for the play of the very best in the world, that are not only always to be invoked and cultivated, but  \nthat are absolutely to be jumped at from the moment they make a sign.  \nYes then, the case prescribed for its central figure a sick young woman, atthe whole course of whose disintegration and the whole ordeal of whose consciousness","cbCaimy8NVstDpDa","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimy8NVstDpDa","pdf",3498183,464,"English","# Preface\n## The central motive and its imaginative origin\n## The sick figure and the handling of consciousness\n## Life over dying: the novelistic focus","[{\"question\":\"What central motive does Henry James describe in the preface?\",\"answer\":\"A young person aware of a great capacity for life is struck early and doomed to die under short respite, yet remains enamoured of the world and desires to experience its finest vibrations before extinction.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the preface stress the challenge of using a sick central figure?\",\"answer\":\"Because the protagonist’s disintegration and the ordeal of consciousness require discreet and ingenious expression, demanding much “handling” and careful portrayal.\"},{\"question\":\"What does James say about what the poet should ultimately be concerned with?\",\"answer\":\"The poet essentially can’t be concerned with the act of dying; even the sickest appeal through the act of living, where the process of life becomes a battle that shines through.\"}]","The Wings of the Dove - Preface | PDF",715]