The Portrait of a Lady - Brossura

Moore, Geoffrey; James, Henry; Crick, Patricia

Brossura

ISBN 10: 014043223X ISBN 13: 9780140432237

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 1984

Riassunto

"The Portrait of a Lady" is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece. Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama.

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L'autore

Henry James was born in 1843 in New York and died in London in 1916. 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.

Product Description

Book by James Henry

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 1984
• ISBN 10: 014043223X
• ISBN 13: 9780140432237
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 656