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"The Portrait of a Lady" is 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 one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama.
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The Portrait of a Lady, Henry James, Regina Barreca
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- Année de publication
- 1995
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- (souple),
- État du livre
- Bon
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- Titre
- The Portrait of a Lady
- Sous-titre
- Now a Major Motion Picture. Directed by Jane Campion. Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey
- Langue
- Anglais
- Auteurs
- Henry James, Regina Barreca
- Éditeur
- Signet
- Publié
- 1995
- Format
- souple
- Pages
- 544
- ISBN10
- 0451191307
- ISBN13
- 9780451191304
- Séries
- Mots clés
- États-Unis, Littérature américaine, Littérature britannique, 19e siècle, XVIIIe siècle, Époque victorienne
- Description
- "The Portrait of a Lady" is 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 one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama.