Download or read book The Sacred Fount written by James H. and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1953 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry James (1843–1916) was an American author regarded as a key transitional fi gure between literary realism and literary modernism. In «The Sacred Fount» an unnamed narrator attempts to discover the truth about the love lives of his fellow guests at a weekend party in the English countryside. He spurns the «detective and keyhole» methods as ignoble, and instead tries to decipher these relationships purely from the behavior and appearance of each guest. He expends huge resources of energy and ingenuity on his theories, much to the bemusement of some people at the party.