The Golden Bowl
$23.93
- Paperback
656 pages
- Release Date
16 August 2009
Summary
The Gilded Cage: Secrets and Alliances in The Golden Bowl
Maggie Verver, a young American heiress, and her widowed father Adam, dwell in a world of wealth and refinement in London. Both are on the verge of marriage: Maggie to Prince Amerigo, a penniless Italian aristocrat, and Adam to the beautiful Charlotte Stant, a friend of his daughter.
Unbeknownst to father and daughter, their chosen partners share a hidden connection—a secret that threatens to unravel their carefully c…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141441276 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141441275 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Henry James, Ruth Yeazell |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 656 |
| Release Date: | 16 August 2009 |
| Weight: | 444g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 128mm x 27mm |
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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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