414 Henry James's Golden Bowl (with Dinitia Smith) | William Blake Preview (with John Higgs)
The History of Literature
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The Golden Ball by Henry James
I don't want to ask you anything that would give away any secrets in your book. But i think we can start at the beginning of the book. I'm interested whether you kept the four main characters in the golden ball. So much of this is kind of this square. And for people who might be thinking that that is two couples who have inerecting and overlapping relationships. Yes, that's true. Although i like the twist in henry james that one of the couples is a, not a couple, so to speak, but is a father and daughter.
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