The Portrait of a lady

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The Portrait of a lady
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The Portrait of a lady

Henry James
Edition year 1994
Binding Cloth
Illustrator Robin Jacques
Weight 1.5 Kg
Pages 512
Dimensions 25.1 × 16.2 cm

Edition details

The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James, introduced by Joan Aiken, sixteen leaves of illustrations by Robin Jacques. Full brown cloth with a lily motif in green, yellow and gold by Daniel Norman, yellow endleaves. Grey-green slipcase. 25.1 x 16.2 cm. 512 pp.

About the book

Henry James's The Portrait of a Lady follows Isabel Archer, an intelligent and independent young American who travels to Europe determined to experience life on her own terms. After unexpectedly inheriting a fortune, Isabel attracts several suitors but makes a disastrous marriage to the sophisticated Gilbert Osmond. James uses her experiences to explore freedom, manipulation, marriage, wealth and the contrast between American idealism and European society, creating one of the great psychological novels of the nineteenth century.

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