The Golden Bowl

Henry James, Ruth Yeazell

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Penguin
17 August 2009

New edition of this classic novel, edited by Philip Horne and Ruth Yeazell

This story of the alliance between Italian aristocracy and American millionaires is ""a work unique among all

James's

novels- it is

his

only novel in which things come out right for his characters ...he had finally resolved the questions, curious and passionate, that had kept him at his desk on his inquiries into the process of living. He could now make his peace with America-and he could now collect and unify the work of a lifetime."" -Leon Edel in The Life of Henry James.

Maggie Verver, a young American heiress, and her widowed father Adam, lead a life of wealth and refinement in London. They are both getting married- Maggie to Prince Amerigo, an impoverished Italian aristocrat, and Adam to the beautiful but penniless Charlotte Stant, a friend of his daughter. But both father and daughter are unaware that their new conquests share a secret - one for which all concerned must pay the price.

By: Henry James
Edited by: Ruth Yeazell
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 447g
ISBN: 9780141441276
ISBN 10: 0141441275
Pages: 656
Publication Date: 17 August 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Henry James was born in 1843 in new York, with Scottish and Irish ancestry. Having studied in New York and Europe, he became a lawyer, and started writing in 1865. Spending time in Paris he knew Flaubert and Turgenev, before moving to London and then Sussex. Philip Horne is a Reader in English at UCL. He is author of the acclaimed Henry James: A Life in Letters and series editor for several of Penguin Classics' Henry James' novels. Ruth Yeazell is the Chase Professor of English at Yale University.