The Portrait of a Lady
Author(s): Geoffrey Henry; Moore James
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.
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.
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Penguin Books
- : Penguin Books
- : 0.65
- : 30 November 1988
- : 1.00000mm X 4.25000mm X 7.25000mm
- : books
Special Fields
- : Geoffrey Henry; Moore James
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 813/.4
- : very good
- : BL 99790735
- : 656