Sir Dominick Ferrand
1892
Peter Baron is three days from becoming a celebrated writer when he inherits a dead man's secrets. A mysterious writing desk arrives at his lodgings, and inside it: sealed letters that could obliterate the reputation of Sir Dominick Ferrand, a once-prominent figure now conveniently extinct. Baron faces a seductive calculus. Publish the scandal and guarantee his literary fortunes. Remain silent and watch his manuscript gather dust. As he deciphers the letters, he discovers that the dead have long arms, and the truth has an uncanny way of implicating the living. Henry James constructs a darkly elegant study of literary ambition as a form of trespass, where every revelation costs something, and knowledge itself becomes a kind of corruption. The novel pulses with a question no one wants to ask aloud: what are we willing to destroy in order to be remembered?
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