Product Description
A new edition of James’s undisputed classic, edited by Philip Horne
Isabel Archer is an American heiress just arrived in Europe, high-spirited, independent, and faced with a tragic choice. In this portrait of a ‘young woman affronting her destiny,’ Henry James created one of his most magnificent heroines, and a story of intense poignancy.
About the Author
Henry James was born in 1843 in Washington Place, New York, of Scottish and Irish ancestry. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875). They include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl. Philip Horne is Professor of English at University College London.