Henry James

Regina Barreca

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North Carolina

One of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, "affront her destiny." James began "The Portrait of a Lady" without a plot or subject, only the slim but provocative notion of a young woman taking control of her fate. The result is a richly imagined study of an American heiress who turns away her suitors in an effort to first establish--and then protect--her independence. But Isabel's pursuit of spiritual freedom collapses when she meets the captivating Gilbert Osmond. "James's formidable powers of observation, his stance as a kind of bachelor recorder of human doings in which he is not involved," writes Hortense Calisher, "make him a first-class documentarian, joining him to that great body of storytellers who amass what formal history cannot."

The Portrait of a Lady

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Henry James; Regina Barreca (Introduction by)

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Portrait of a lady

An intelligent but naive American heiress arrives in Europe seeking the full realization of her potential. What she finds nearly proves her undoing. A major college adoption title. The Portrait of a Lady is the next film coming from Jane Campion, the internationally acclaimed director of The Piano, in the fall of 1995.

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Category - Fiction / Classics

Format - Paperback

Condition - Fair

Listed - 8 months ago

Views - 12

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Est. Publication Date - Dec 1996

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