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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

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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