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The “Great War” centenary: Henry James saw it all

Tuesday, August 5th, 2014
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“The plunge of civilization into this abyss of blood and darkness… is a thing that so gives away the whole long age during which we have supposed the world to be, with whatever abatement, gradually bettering, that to have to take it all now for what the treacherous years were all the while really making for and meaning is too tragic for any words.”

– Henry James, August 5, 1914

 

 

 

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