The Portrait of a Lady (Wordsworth Classics)

by Lionel Kelly (Introduction), Dr Keith Carabine (Series Editor), Henry James (Author), Lionel Kelly (Introduction)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $7.06

  With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Reading. Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, but despite all her natural advantages she makes one disastrous error of judgement and the result is genuinely tragic. Her tale, told with James' inimitable poise, is of the widest relevance. 'The phase when his (Henry James') genius functioned with the freest and fullest vitality is represented by The Portrait of a Lady'. (F.R. LEAVIS)

• Used

  Paperback
  1981

  $3.25

• Used

  Hardcover
  1989

  $3.25

• New

  Hardcover
  1991

  $15.64

  The talented and beautiful Isabel Archer, courted by several suitors and enriched by her dying uncle, chooses to marry the cold and ambitious Gilbert Osmond. The heroine soon discovers to her cost that freedom of choice is never what it seems.