PORTRAIT OF A LADY (Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics) [Idioma Inglés]: Introduction by Peter Washington (Everyman's Library Classics Series) - Hardcover

James, Henry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679405623 ISBN 13: 9780679405627

Verlag: Everyman's Library, 1991

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Book by James Henry

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"The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world."--Rebecca West

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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.

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.

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. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Everyman's Library
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0679405623
• ISBN 13: 9780679405627
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 672