# The Awkward Age

Author: James, Henry, 1843-1916

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7433

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

## Summary

I recall with perfect ease the idea in which “The Awkward Age” had its origin, but re-perusal gives me pause in respect to naming it. This composition, as it stands, makes, to my vision--and will have made perhaps still more to that of its readers--so considerable a mass beside the germ sunk in it and still possibly distinguishable, that I am half-moved to leave my small secret undivulged. I shall encounter, I think, in the course of this copious commentary, no better example, and none on behalf of which I shall venture to invite more interest, of the quite incalculable tendency of a mere grain of subject-matter to expand and develop and cover the ground when conditions happen to favour i...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 30](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/30/index.md)
- [Chapter 28](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/28/index.md)
- [Chapter 32](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/32/index.md)
- [Chapter 31](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/31/index.md)
- [Chapter 27](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/27/index.md)
- [Chapter 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 25](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/25/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Chapter 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 24](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/24/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 26](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/26/index.md)
- [Chapter 29](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/29/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 33](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-awkward-age-7433/chapters/33/index.md)