The Portrait of a Lady
$60.44
- Hardcover
672 pages
- Release Date
13 February 2023
Summary
Henry James’s beloved masterpiece, now in a beautiful hardcover edition featuring James’s groundbreaking essay “The Art of Fiction,” with a foreword by acclaimed novelist Brandon Taylor.
The Portrait of a Lady is regarded by many as Henry James’s finest work, and a lucid tragedy exploring the distance between money and happiness. When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143137320 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143137328 |
| Author: | Henry James, Brandon Taylor |
| Publisher: | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 672 |
| Release Date: | 13 February 2023 |
| Weight: | 686g |
| Dimensions: | 205mm x 134mm x 48mm |
| Series: | Penguin Vitae |
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About The Author
Henry James
Henry James (1843-1916) was born in New York and died in London. In addition to many short stories, plays, and books of criticism, autobiography, and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875). They include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors, and The Golden Bowl.
Brandon Taylor is the author of the acclaimed novel Real Life, which has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize, longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and named a New York Times Book Review Editors’Choice, and Filthy Animals. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa, where he was an Iowa Arts Fellow at the Iowa Writers’Workshop in fiction.
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