by Henry James · PENGUIN · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140624335
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«The Portrait of a Lady» is the classic novel by Henry James, published by Penguin in paperback (544 pages, in English).
Isabel Archer, a young American woman, travels to Europe to decide her fate and preserve her independence, rejecting two suitors. When she meets the cultivated Gilbert Osmond, she discovers that his charm hides a sombre nature. A story about freedom, marriage, and the clash between European and American culture.
Originally published in 1881; this edition belongs to the Penguin Popular Classics collection.
For readers of nineteenth-century classics and psychological novels who appreciate character portraits.
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.
