The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James, Anita Brookner

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English

Modern Library Inc
15 February 2002

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Series: Modern Library Classics

"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."""

By: Henry James
Introduction by: Anita Brookner
Imprint: Modern Library Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Volume: 12
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 441g
ISBN: 9780375759192
ISBN 10: 0375759190
Series: Modern Library Classics
Pages: 640
Publication Date: 15 February 2002
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Anita Brookner is the author of twenty novels, including Falling Slowly, Undue Influence, and Hotel du Lac, which won the Booker Prize. She lives in London.