Portrait of a Lady Introduction by Peter Washington

Name: Portrait of a Lady Introduction by Peter Washington
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ISBN: 9780679405627

ISBN-10: 0679405623

ISBN-13: 9780679405627

Edition: 1991

Authors: Henry James, Peter Washington

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The Portrait of a Ladyis the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece. Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil…

Book details

List price: $27.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/26/1991
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 672
Size: 5.34" wide x 8.27" long x 1.40" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English

Peter Washington has edited several Pocket Poets, including Love Poems, Friendship Poems, Love Letters, and The Roman Poets.