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The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James Brandon Taylor

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English
Penguin Classics
14 February 2023
Series: Penguin Vitae
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 Isabel, resolved to enjoy her freedom, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond.
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Imprint:   Penguin Classics
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 205mm,  Width: 134mm,  Spine: 48mm
Weight:   686g
ISBN:   9780143137320
ISBN 10:   0143137328
Series:   Penguin Vitae
Pages:   672
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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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