The Portrait of a Lady Henry James - Softcover

James, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1541376854 ISBN 13: 9781541376854

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

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 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.”

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• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1541376854
• ISBN 13: 9781541376854
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512
• Editor: Benitez Paula