Just began my first-ever foray into late Henry James

I've read a fair amount of Henry James in my life: The American, Washington Square, Portrait of a Lady,and a few of the novellas. But I've always bounced off of his later books--Wings of the Dove; The Ambassador; and The Golden Bowl--because the writing is so dense and so involved that I lose track of sentences before I get to the end. Take, for instanc…