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“I set up my altar, with its multiplied meanings,” Stransom began; but she quietly interrupted him. “You set up your altar, and when I wanted one most I found it magnificently ready. I used it with the gratitude I’ve always shown you, for I knew it from of old to be dedicated to Death. I told you long ago that my Dead weren’t many.
James’s major fiction (the bulk of his novels and some two dozen of the tales, including “The Altar of the Dead”) is dominated by the device of the secret. Diane Arbus’s famous remark ...
The Altar of the Dead is a short story by Henry James, first published in his collection Terminations in 1895. A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores how the protagonist tries to keep the remembrance of his dead friends, to save them from being forgotten entirely in the rush of everyday events.
1 set 2010 · The Altar of the Dead. Henry James. The Floating Press, Sep 1, 2010 - Fiction - 47 pages. Explore timeless questions about spirituality, love, remembrance, and mortality with this tale from the pen of Henry James, a master of psychological suspense fiction. The two protagonists featured in "The Altar of the Dead" have dedicated their lives to ...
tutorial, commentary, study resources, and web links. The Altar of the Dead (1895) holds a very high distinction amongst the stories of Henry James – for it is the one from the hundred or more that he wrote with which he said he was ‘least dissatisfied’. And it is generally held in positive regard amongst literary critics, along with ...
The Altar of the Dead is a short story by Henry James, first published in his collection Terminations in 1895. A fable of literally life and death significance, the story explores how the protagonist tries to keep the remembrance of his dead friends, to save them from being forgotten entirely in the rush of everyday events.
A masterful exploration of one's duty to the memory of the dead, 'The Altar of the Dead' stands amongst Henry James' most poignant and introspective works. Crafted with the meticulous psychological depth characteristic of James' literary style, the novella delves into the pervasive preoccupation with mortality and remembrance.
