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Descripción

1 online resource (xxxiv, 600 pages).

Colección

Oxford world's classics

Oxford world's classics.

Bibliografía

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota

Print version record.

Contenido

Contents; Introduction; Note on the Text; Select Bibliography; A Chronology of Henry James; THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY; Explanatory Notes.

Sumario

Considered by many as one of the finest novels in the English language, The Portrait of a Lady is both a dramatic Victorian tale of betrayal and a wholly modern psychological study of a woman caught in machinations she only comes to understand too late. This new edition usefully tracks the major textual changes James made for his New York Edition. - ;'One ought to choose something very deliberately, and be faithful to that.'Isabel Archer is a young, intelligent, and spirited American girl, determined to relish her first experience of Europe. She rejects two eligible suitors in her fervent comm.

Materia

Young women -- Fiction.

Americans -- Italy -- Fiction.

Inheritance and succession -- Fiction.

Married people -- Fiction.

Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction.

Italy -- Fiction.

Young women.

FICTION -- Romance -- General.

Americans.

Inheritance and succession.

Married people.

Triangles (Interpersonal relations)

Young women.

Italy.

Género/Forma

Psychological fiction.

Electronic books.

Fiction.

Love stories.

Otro Autor

Luckhurst, Roger.

Otro formato:

Print version: James, Henry, 1843-1916. Portrait of a lady. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2008048612

ISBN

9780191568152 (electronic bk.)

0191568155 (electronic bk.)

Nº estándar

9786612383779