# The Sense of the Past

Author: James, Henry, 1843-1916; Lubbock, Percy, 1879-1965 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Romance

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63369

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

## Summary

THE SENSE OF THE PAST, _the second of the two novels which Henry James left unfinished, had been planned and begun some years before he died. The two first books and a part of the third had been written, and it appears that the idea had been abandoned for accidental reasons, not because he was himself dissatisfied with it. He went back to it again during the first winter of the war, having found that in the conditions he could not then go on with_ The Ivory Tower _and hoping that he might be able to work upon a story of remote and phantasmal life. He re-dictated, with slight modifications, the chapters already written, and continued the book at intervals until the autumn of 1915. He was t...

## Chapters

- [Part 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Part 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Part 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Part 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Part 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Part 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Part 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Part 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 22](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/22/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Part 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Part 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Part 21](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/21/index.md)
- [Part 23](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/23/index.md)
- [Part 20](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/20/index.md)
- [Part 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-sense-of-the-past-63369/chapters/18/index.md)