by Henry James · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140432237
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«The Portrait of a Lady» is the classic fiction novel by Henry James, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (656 pages, in English).
Young American Isabel Archer arrives in Europe eager to forge her own destiny. After rejecting two suitors, she becomes fascinated by Gilbert Osmond, an indolent man who sees her as a valuable prize. James thus weaves an exploration of freedom, ambition, and the clash between cultures.
Revised edition with an introduction by Geoffrey Moore and notes by Patricia Crick. The cover reproduces a detail from a painting by Edmund C. Tarbell.
For readers of classic fiction who enjoy psychological portraits and nineteenth-century European settings.
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.
