- Audio Cassette
- Publisher: Audio Book Contractors (January 1991)
- ISBN-10: 9992175540
- ISBN-13: 978-9992175545
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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.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.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.
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Portrait of a Young Lady Affronting Her Destiny...
May 27 2012
Format:Paperback
Henry James' 1881 classic novel "The Portrait of a Lady" features his magnificent literary skills in the story of "a certain young lady affronting her destiny." The certain young lady is Isabella Archer, an orphaned but independent American woman, taken to Britain by her Anglicized aunt. Isabella is spirited, intelligent,and attractive, and she will be wooed by several men.
The story takes place in a series of venues in the US, Britain, and Italy, all closely described, and in a procession of set-piece encounters with subtle and delicious dialogue, and subtler plot twists. There is a distinct air through the book that Isabella is walking into a trap, one that will become increasingly obvious to her as the story progresses, and one that will require her to choose among her allegiances at the end.
"The Portrait of a Lady" is a long and challenging read at nearly 600 pages, and maybe the reader has to like Henry James a lot to enjoy the slowly unfolding story and the difficult, ambiguous ending. It is highly recommended to those with the interest and the fortitude to take on the task.
The story takes place in a series of venues in the US, Britain, and Italy, all closely described, and in a procession of set-piece encounters with subtle and delicious dialogue, and subtler plot twists. There is a distinct air through the book that Isabella is walking into a trap, one that will become increasingly obvious to her as the story progresses, and one that will require her to choose among her allegiances at the end.
"The Portrait of a Lady" is a long and challenging read at nearly 600 pages, and maybe the reader has to like Henry James a lot to enjoy the slowly unfolding story and the difficult, ambiguous ending. It is highly recommended to those with the interest and the fortitude to take on the task.
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