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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100375759190
ISBN-139780375759192
eBay Product ID (ePID)24395
Product Key Features
Book TitlePortrait of a Lady
Number of Pages640 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Classics, Family Life, Literary, Thrillers / Historical, Romance / Historical / Victorian
Publication Year2002
GenreFiction
AuthorHenry James
Book SeriesModern Library Classics Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight15.5 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-044822
Dewey Edition19
Reviews" 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, "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
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal813/.4
SynopsisOne 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.", 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 establishand then protecther 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."
LC Classification NumberPS2116.P6 2002
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