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The Wings of the Dove - 9780451527288

Un libro in lingua di Henry James Brenda Wineapple edito da New Amer Library Classics, 1999

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An angel with a thumping bank account

Milly Theale, an American heiress in London, is young, hungry for life, and terminally ill. There she meets the dazzling beauty Kate Croy. Unbeknownst to Milly, Kate is madly in love with an old acquaintance of hers, Merton Densher, a young journalist who has everything a woman like Kate could want—except money.

Intensely aware of her new friend's fate and coveting her fortune, Kate secretly spurs Merton to seduce and marry Milly, who believes that to die without having loved is not to have lived at all. But when Milly discovers their scheme to inherit her wealth, Kate and Merton learn that deceit can have unforeseen consequences....

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