by Henry James · Ediciones B · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440670496
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«Retrato de una dama» is the novel by Henry James, published by Ediciones B in hardback (816 pages, in Spanish).
After receiving an inheritance, Isabel Archer leaves America and travels through Europe in search of independence. Between social pressure to marry and her desire for freedom, she meets different men and ends up falling in love with someone who is not what he seems; the novel explores female psychology, money, art and the cultural clash between two worlds.
The work was originally published in 1881 as «The Portrait of a Lady». This 1997 edition bears on its cover the indication that it is the novel that inspired Jane Campion's film.
For readers of nineteenth-century classics and psychological portrait novels about individual freedom and social conventions.
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.
