by Henry James · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140622492
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«The Portrait of a Lady» is the classic novel by Henry James, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (544 pages, in English).
Isabel Archer, a young American heiress, arrives in Europe determined to carve out her own destiny. She rejects her suitors, but is captivated by the sophisticated Gilbert Osmond, whose languor conceals very specific interests. Henry James thus portrays freedom, marriage, and the social conventions of the nineteenth century.
The novel was originally published in 1881. This edition belongs to the Penguin Popular Classics series.
Suitable for general readers interested in classic nineteenth-century narrative and fiction in English.
Henry James was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was the son of theologian Henry James Sr. and the brother of philosopher and psychologist William James and diarist Alice James.
