The Golden Bowl
$22.77
- Paperback
656 pages
- Release Date
16 August 2009
Summary
New edition of this classic novel, edited by Philip Horne and Ruth Yeazell
This story of the alliance between Italian aristocracy and American millionaires is “a work unique among all James’s novels- it is his only novel in which things come out right for his characters …he had finally resolved the questions, curious and passionate, that had kept him at his desk on his inquiries into the process of living. He could now make his peace with America-and he could now collect and unify the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141441276 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141441275 |
| Author: | Henry James, Ruth Yeazell |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 16 August 2009 |
| Weight: | 470g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 130mm x 38mm |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
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‘One of the greatest pieces of fiction ever written’ - A. N. Wilson’A wonderfully luminous drama’ - Gore Vidal
‘One of the greatest pieces of fiction ever written’ - A. N. Wilson ‘A wonderfully luminous drama’ - Gore Vidal
About The Author
Henry James
Henry James was born in 1843 in New York, with Scottish and Irish ancestry. Having studied in New York and Europe, he became a lawyer, and started writing in 1865. Spending time in Paris he knew Flaubert and Turgenev, before moving to London and then Sussex.
Philip Horne is a Reader in English at UCL. He is author of the acclaimed Henry James- A Life in Letters and series editor for several of Penguin Classics’ Henry James’ novels.
Ruth Yeazell is the Chase Professor of English at Yale University.
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