| Author: | Henry James |
| Release Date: | 1878 |
| Subject: | Comedic Short Story |
This work is a comic short story, originally published in The Parisian magazine. The story takes place at the time of its publication and is one of the author’s few ventures into epistolary fiction; which is characterized by a series of documents. A lot of the characters in the story are stereotypes, but the plot continues to keep readers guessing.