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510 The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James (Part 2)

The History of Literature

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Overmastered by Drayton Dean

A year and a half after Korvick's death she published in a single volume her second novel, Overmastered. I pounced on it hoping to find some telltale echo or some peeping face. All I found was a much better book than her younger performance,. showing I thought the better company she had kept. Six months later appeared the right of way, the last chance that we were to have to redeem ourselves. Written wholly during Verick's sojourn abroad, the book had been heralded in a hundred paragraphs by the usual ineptitudes.

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