by Henry James · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141441269
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«The Portrait of a Lady» is the novel by Henry James, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (768 pages, in English).
The novel follows Isabel Archer, a young American woman who arrives in Europe and rejects two marriages to decide her own destiny. Her fascination with Gilbert Osmond, a cultivated man, leads her into a relationship that will test her freedom. Henry James examines money, responsibility, and social expectations of women.
Originally published in 1881, this Penguin Classics edition is based on the text of the first edition and includes an introduction, chronology, notes, and further reading by Philip Horne.
For readers of English literature classics and nineteenth-century novels about freedom, marriage, and the role of women.
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.
