Society

In the Cage

by Henry James

A telegraph girl overhears the whole of upper-class London’s love affairs, one coded message at a time, while being permitted none of her own. She knows everyone’s secrets and owns none of the life attached to them. James spends the whole book on the difference between watching a story and living inside one.

The librarian

Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text

Reading time

About 2 hr 20 min

Where to find it

On the Society shelves

Edition

Project Gutenberg, eBook #1144. In the public domain in the United States.