The Great Good Place (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry James
- First Published: 1900
- Type of Plot: Dream vision
- Time of Work: The late nineteenth century
- Setting: London
- Principal Characters: George Dane, Brown, A writer, Two brothers
- Genres: Short fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Self, Authors or writers, Success or failure, Consciousness
- Locales: London, England
The Story
George Dane, a writer whose success has brought with it a tremendous amount of responsibility in the form of increasingly more reading and writing to be done, wakes up one morning feeling overwhelmed by all the paperwork on his desk. The rain during the night has not washed away the work waiting to be done, the sentence waiting to be completed. Brown, his servant, enters the study to remind him of an engagement and inquire about his luncheon plans. Dane would rather not be bothered. Brown's distractedness leads them to talk at cross-purposes until Dane intones,...
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