Ah, you publishing scoundrel!"
In one of his works, the protagonist believes that a portrait's expression is telling him "Get out of it as you can, my dear fellow!" after a woman tacitly proposes marriage to him. An old woman dies after crying "Ah, you publishing scoundrel!" at the literary biographer who is about to ransack her desk in that work by him. From 1907-1909, this author revised many of his works for the so-called New York Edition. The grief-stricken face of stranger in a graveyard causes the protagonist to fling himself on May Bertram's tomb in a work in which John Marcher realizes he has wasted his life waiting. In another work by this author of The Aspern Papers and The Beast in the Jungle, Mrs. Grose becomes the confidante of a governess who suspects that Flora and Miles are being haunted by the ghost of Peter Quint. For 10 points, name this American author of The Turn of the Screw.
In one of his works, the protagonist believes that a portrait's expression is telling him "Get out of it as you can, my dear fellow!" after a woman tacitly proposes marriage to him.
Henry James