Excerpt from The Ivory Tower The ivory tower, one of the two novels which Henry James left unfinished at his death, was designed to con sist of ten books. Three only of these were written, with one chapter of the fourth, and except for the cor rection of a few obvious slips the fragment is here printed in full and without alteration. It was composed during the summer of 1914. The novel seems to have grown out of another which had been planned by Henry James in the winter of 1909 - 10. Of this the opening scenes had been sketched and a few pages written when it was interrupted by illness. On taking it up again, four years later, Henry James almost entirely recast his original scheme, retaining certain of the characters (notably the Bradham couple, ) but otherwise giving an altogether fresh setting to the central motive. The new novel had reached the point where it breaks off by the beginning of August, 1914. With the outbreak of war Henry James found he could no longer work upon a fiction sup posed to represent contemporary or recent life. The completed chapters - which he had dictated to his sec retary, in accordance with his regular habit for many years past - were revised and laid aside, not again to be resumed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.