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The Portrait of a Lady - (Modern Library Classics) by Henry James (Paperback)
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Number of Pages: 640
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Classics
Series Title: Modern Library Classics
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Age Range: Adult
Author: Henry James
Language: English
"The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world."--Rebecca West
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Classics
Series Title: Modern Library Classics
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Modern Library
Age Range: Adult
Author: Henry James
Language: English
Book Synopsis
One of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, "affront her destiny." James began The Portrait of a Lady without a plot or subject, only the slim but provocative notion of a young woman taking control of her fate. The result is a richly imagined study of an American heiress who turns away her suitors in an effort to first establish--and then protect--her independence. But Isabel's pursuit of spiritual freedom collapses when she meets the captivating Gilbert Osmond. "James's formidable powers of observation, his stance as a kind of bachelor recorder of human doings in which he is not involved," writes Hortense Calisher, "make him a first-class documentarian, joining him to that great body of storytellers who amass what formal history cannot."Review Quotes
"The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world."--Rebecca West
About the Author
Anita Brookner is the author of twenty novels, including Falling Slowly, Undue Influence, and Hotel du Lac, which won the Booker Prize. She lives in London.
