The portrait of a lady / Henry James

Public ISBD Titre : The portrait of a lady Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Henry James, Auteur ; Kelly Lionel, Collaborateur Editeur : Londres [Royaume-Uni] : Wordsworth Editions Année de publication : 1999 Collection : Wordsworth classics. Importance : 504 p. Format : 20 cm. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-85326-177-0 Langues : Anglais Catégories : LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:828 English literature Mots-clés : Archer Isabel(Fictitious character)  Triangles (Interpersonal relations)  Inheritance and succession  Fiction. Résumé : "The Portrait of a Lady" is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece. Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama. The portrait of a lady [texte imprimé] / Henry James, Auteur ; Kelly Lionel, Collaborateur . - Londres (Royaume-Uni) : Wordsworth Editions, 1999 . - 504 p. ; 20 cm.. - (Wordsworth classics.) . ISBN : 978-1-85326-177-0 Langues : Anglais Catégories : LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:828 English literature Mots-clés : Archer Isabel(Fictitious character)  Triangles (Interpersonal relations)  Inheritance and succession  Fiction. Résumé : "The Portrait of a Lady" is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece. Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama.

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