by Henry James · Everyman's Library · tapa dura · ISBN 9781857150391
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«The Portrait of a Lady» is the novel by Henry James published by Everyman's Library in hardback (626 pages, in English).
Isabel Archer, a young American woman who inherits a fortune, travels to Europe and finds herself surrounded by suitors such as Lord Warburton and Gilbert Osmond. Confident in her independence, she makes decisions about love and marriage that test her freedom and bring unforeseen consequences.
The work was originally published in 1881. This Everyman's Library edition was published in 1991 as part of the Everyman's Library Classics collection.
For readers of nineteenth-century classics interested in psychological portraiture and the cultural clash between America and Europe.
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.
