The portrait of a lady / Henry James ; with an introduction and notes by Roger Luckhurst.
Considered by many as one of the finest novels in the English language, The Portrait of a Lady is both a dramatic Victorian tale of betrayal and a wholly modern psychological study of a woman caught in machinations she only comes to understand too late. This new edition usefully tracks the major textual changes James made for his New York Edition. - ;'One ought to choose something very deliberately, and be faithful to that.'Isabel Archer is a young, intelligent, and spirited American girl, determined to relish her first experience of Europe. She rejects two eligible suitors in her fervent comm.
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- ISBN: 9780191568152
- ISBN: 0191568155
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxxiv, 600 pages)
- Publisher: Oxford ; Oxford University Press, ©2009.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Henry James; THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY; Explanatory Notes. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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