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HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.Money''s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.'Isabel Archer is a beautiful, intelligent and independent young woman. Brought from America to England by her wealthy Aunt who seeks to further her education and find her niece a husband, Isabel is determined to shape her own future one that does not necessarily entail becoming a wife. Isabel inherits a fortune when her rich uncle dies and feels even more inclined to turn down two eligible suitors on the basis that she is a woman of her own means. However, a trip to Italy heralds her downfall when she meets the charming Gilbert Osmond, a worthless, yet ambitious and scheming dilettante.

The Portrait of a Lady

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    A Paperback by Henry James

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      Publisher Harper Collins
      Imprint William Collins
      Published 10 January 2011
      ISBN-13 9780007902286
      978-0007902286
      ISBN-10 000790228X
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Books by Henry James

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      Book Synopsis
      HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.Money''s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.'Isabel Archer is a beautiful, intelligent and independent young woman. Brought from America to England by her wealthy Aunt who seeks to further her education and find her niece a husband, Isabel is determined to shape her own future one that does not necessarily entail becoming a wife. Isabel inherits a fortune when her rich uncle dies and feels even more inclined to turn down two eligible suitors on the basis that she is a woman of her own means. However, a trip to Italy heralds her downfall when she meets the charming Gilbert Osmond, a worthless, yet ambitious and scheming dilettante.

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