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With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Reading.

Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, but despite all her natural advantages she makes one disastrous error of judgement and the result is genuinely tragic. Her tale, told with James’ inimitable poise, is of the widest relevance.

‘The phase when his (Henry James’) genius functioned with the freest and fullest vitality is represented by The Portrait of a Lady’.

(F.R. LEAVIS)

The Portrait of a Lady

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    A Paperback / softback by Henry James, Lionel Kelly, Dr Keith Carabine

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      Publisher Wordsworth Editions Ltd
      Published 5 December 2006
      ISBN-13 9781853261770
      978-1853261770
      ISBN-10 1853261777
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      Classics Books by Henry James

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Reading.

      Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, but despite all her natural advantages she makes one disastrous error of judgement and the result is genuinely tragic. Her tale, told with James’ inimitable poise, is of the widest relevance.

      ‘The phase when his (Henry James’) genius functioned with the freest and fullest vitality is represented by The Portrait of a Lady’.

      (F.R. LEAVIS)

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