The Figure in the Carpet (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry James
- First Published: 1896
- Type of Plot: Metafiction
- Time of Work: The late Victorian period
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: The nameless narrator, Hugh Vereker, George Corvick, Gwendolen Erme, Drayton Deane
- Genres: Short fiction, Metafiction
- Subjects: Journalism or journalists, Novelists, Storytelling
- Locales: London, England
The Story
Having reviewed Hugh Vereker's latest fiction in The Middle, a literary weekly (this a result of the kind offices of his friend George Corvick), the nameless narrator is invited to a country-house weekend, during which he encounters Vereker. The novelist reads the narrator's notice and comments derisively on it, only to relent when he learns the identity of the author. In a gesture of compensation (one supposes), Vereker confides to the narrator that his fictions are all linked by a single idea or scheme that no critic has ever noticed but that is the very...
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