“The Altar of the Dead” is a short story by Henry James, first published in his collection Terminations in 1895.
Henry James OM was an American author, who became a British citizen in the last year of his life, regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. data-ved="2ahUKEwjLj-vUsbvpAhXASxUIHX65Aw8QmhMwHnoECBoQEw”>