The Portrait of a Lady by James, Henry

The Portrait of a Lady (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375759192)

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The Portrait of a Lady by James, Henry

The Portrait of a Lady

$13.00
The Portrait of a Lady by James, Henry

The Portrait of a Lady

$13.00
Format: Paperback
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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."

Author: Henry James
ISBN-10: 0375759190
ISBN-13: 9780375759192
Publisher: Penguin Random House LLC (No Starch)
Language: English
Published: 02/12/2002
Pages: 640
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.22w x 0.94d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 9.6
Point Value: 44
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 76006 / Portrait of a Lady
By Henry James
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Anita Brookner is the author of twenty novels, including Falling Slowly, Undue Influence, and Hotel du Lac, which won the Booker Prize. She lives in London.

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