# The Author of Beltraffio

Author: James, Henry, 1843-1916

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3145

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Author+of+Beltraffio+James&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

MUCH as I wished to see him I had kept my letter of introduction three weeks in my pocket-book. I was nervous and timid about meeting him—conscious of youth and ignorance, convinced that he was tormented by strangers, and especially by my country-people, and not exempt from the suspicion that he had the irritability as well as the dignity of genius. Moreover, the pleasure, if it should occur—for I could scarcely believe it was near at hand—would be so great that I wished to think of it in advance, to feel it there against my breast, not to mix it with satisfactions more superficial and usual. In the little game of new sensations that I was playing with my ingenuous mind I wished to keep m...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-author-of-beltraffio-3145/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-author-of-beltraffio-3145/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-author-of-beltraffio-3145/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-author-of-beltraffio-3145/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-author-of-beltraffio-3145/chapters/5/index.md)