# The Beast in the Jungle

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- Book: [The Beast in the Jungle](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-james/the-beast-in-the-jungle) ([The Beast in the Jungle.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-james/the-beast-in-the-jungle.md))
- Authors: [Henry James](https://www.bookquiver.com/henry-james)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4196-852-0
- Published: 2011-02-15
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'Something or other lay in wait for him, amid the twists and turns of the months and the years, like a crouching beast in the jungle.' Henry James's devastating and profoundly moving novella is the story of John Marcher, a man who, for as long as he can remember, has been obsessed by the feeling that some life-changing - even catastrophic - event lies in wait for him like a jungle animal. Then the tragic day arrives on which the terrible true nature of the beast is revealed.