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James explored consciousness and perception from the point of view of a character within a tale. Pandora begins, "The process of inquiry had already begun for him, in spite of his having as yet spoken to none of his fellow-passengers; the case being that Vogelstein inquired not only with his tongue, but with his eyes--that is with his spectacles--with his ears, with his nose, with his palate, with all his senses and organs. He was a highly upright young man, whose only fault was that his sense of comedy, or of the humour of things, had never been specifically disengaged from his several other senses. He vaguely felt that something should be done about this, and in a general manner proposed to do it, for he was on his way to explore a society abounding in comic aspects."Henry James, OM, son of theologian Henry James Sr., brother of the philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James, was an American-born author, one of the founders and leaders of a school of realism in fiction. He spent much of his life in England and became a British subject shortly before his death. He is primarily known for a series of major novels in which he portrayed the encounter of America with Europe. His plots centered on personal relationships, the proper exercise of power in such relationships, and other moral questions. His method of writing from the point of view of a character within a tale allowed him to explore the phenomena of consciousness and perception, and his style in later works has been compared to impressionist painting.

“Pandora” is a novella written by Henry James (1843-1916). First published in 1884, it tells the story of a beautiful and independent young American girl of the upper class.This edition also includes:- an extra-story by James, the well-known “Brooksmith” (1891);- a biographic note on James’ life and works;- a complete bibliography of James novels, novellas and short stories.

Pandora is the kind of book that Henry James excelled at writing. In some of his books, such as The American and Portrait of a Lady, James had shown his genius at placing protagonists where cultures and traditions clash and merge, where the Old and New Worlds meet and collide, and where a man, or a woman, caught in the mist of cultural battles can witness the differences – and, ironically, the similarities of both warring sides. We see all these in this book through the experiences of Vogelstein, a count who undertakes a journey from his native Germany to the USA. The count’s study begins immediately the moment he takes the ship to the New World and where he meets Pandora Day, who, like him, also goes through a journey of discovery only in reverse. In the process of his “education”, the count learns that the heart could easily be a student as well as the mind. As he learns more about Pandora, and falls for her, he realizes that in the process of gaining education he can also lose a part of himself. by Shari