The Portrait of a Lady - 9780679405627
Un libro in lingua di Henry James edito da Everymans Library, 1991
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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.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: The Portrait of a Lady
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Henry James
- Editore: Everymans Library
- Collana: Everymans Library (Hardcover)
- Data di Pubblicazione: 01 Novembre '91
- Genere: FICTION
- Argomenti : Archer, Isabel (Fictitious character) Fiction Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Fiction Inheritance and succession Fiction
- Dimensioni mm: 215 x 133 x 38
- ISBN-10: 0679405623
- EAN-13: 9780679405627