When the last of the English Pendrels dies and leaves a London estate house to American Ralph Pendrel, the young Pendrel travels to England and finds himself inhabiting the body of an even earlier Pendrel. Unfortunately, when Henry James himself died, that’s as far as he’d gotten in writing the book, although the posthumous publication included James’s notes on the conclusion—plenty enough to inspire a litany of followers from countless versions of Berkeley Square to H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Out of Time.”
—Michael Main
He clung to his gravity, which somehow steadied him—so odd it was that the sense of her understanding wouldn’t be abated, which even a particular lapse, he could see. . .

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  1. The Sense of the Past by Henry James (W. Collins Sons, 1917).
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  1. Berkeley Square by John L. Balderston and Jack C. Squire (6 October 1926).
  2. Berkeley Square by Sonya Levien and John L. Balderston, directed by Frank Lloyd (13 September 1933).
  3. The House in the Square by Ranald MacDougall and Joseph L. Mankiewicz, directed by Roy Ward Baker (October 1951).
  4. “I’ll Never Forget You” by S. H. Barnett [director unknown] (22 September 1952).