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Title: The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, Regina Barreca ISBN: 0451191307 Publisher: Signet Pub. Date: December, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.23
Rating: 5
Summary: tragic and beautiful
Comment: I started reading this book slowly and almost gave it up, despite the strong reccomendations from a trusted friend. It's definetely not a light book for the sentences and grammar are difficult sometimes, but of course, proper for the time it was written. But the story is a beautiful one. And it's beautifully told.
People seemed to complain that the book does not have a perfect ending and that the heroine makes terrible mistakes of judgement, but that is what differs a great book from some 'summer-novel' and alikes. It's about real people and real life, and things aren' t always like a hollywood romantic comedy, but nevertheless it leaves you with a precious lesson - and that what a great book is all about.
Characters like Rauph Touchett and Madame Merle will be hard to forget. They were portrayed so beautifully and throughly that sometimes I felt as they were people I actually knew in real life. If you don't find Isabel Archer enough good to love her, then at least take her cousin's perspective and watch her - what she ll make of her life, her youth and her sudden fortune.
A Brillant piece of literature!
Rating: 5
Summary: Higher sense of being
Comment: Magnificient book..takes you to a place where only true art can. Henry James knowledge of the human condition is incredible. His subtlety of thought and ability to express himself in words is trully glorious. What a rare adventure in the world of mind, heart and soul! I love this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: a master and his mistress.
Comment: this, my first novel by henry james, was recommended to me by a trusted friend privy to my affection for the work of austen, the brontes, wharton, bowen and hall. i must admit to having had reservations about a victorian novel with a female protragonist written by a man, but was pleasantly surprised to find that james had depicted the female perspective, in isabel archer, with notable aplomb. i was a little disappointed that, in spite of the book's length, i felt there was a huge leap from the first half of the book, which firmly establishes the young miss archer as a woman intent to never marry and the second half, which finds her rather abruptly married to the third of three men who have made the appeal to her. still, this is a classic work of literature that deserves all the praise it has received. it is far more dense than works by the aforementioned authors and, as such, makes awful subway reading--unless, of course, your train breaks down and there are no crying children or blaring boom boxes in your car.
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Title: The Wings of the Dove (Penguin Classics) by Henry James, John Bayley ISBN: 0140432639 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: June, 1986 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Bostonians by Henry James, R.Q. Gooder, R. D. Gooder ISBN: 0192834428 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The Ambassadors (Penguin Classics) by Henry James, Harry Levin ISBN: 0140432337 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: March, 1987 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: The Golden Bowl (Penguin English Library) by Henry James, Gore Vidal, Patricia Crick ISBN: 0140432353 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: May, 1985 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man (Twentieth-Century Classics) by James Joyce, Seamus Deane ISBN: 0140186832 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: April, 1903 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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