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Henry James, T. J. Lustig
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The Portrait of a Lady
New Edition
Henry James
Edited by Roger Luckhurst
640 pages
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196x129mm
978-0-19-921794-6
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Paperback
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09 April 2009
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- Henry James's most popular novel, this new edition introduces Portrait as both a culmination of Victorian Realism and the beginnings of the emergence of a new 'Modernist' style that explores interior states of consciousness as well as the individual's place in society.
- Thorough notes pay special attention to the numerous changes James made between the first edition and the revised New York Edition, reproduced here.
- Excellent contextualizing introduction discusses the pivotal place of the novel in James's career and on the cusp of Modernism, its place in the tradition of the Bildungsroman, and James's famous literary style.
- Up-to-date bibliography.
- New chronology .
New to this edition - Introduction by Roger Luckhurst
- Up-to-date bibliography
- Chronology of the author
- Explanatory Notes
- Re-set text
'One ought to choose something very deliberately, and be faithful to that.'
Isabel Archer is a young, intelligent, and spirited American girl, determined to relish her first experience of Europe. She rejects two eligible suitors in her fervent commitment to liberty and independence, declaring that she will never marry. Thanks to the generosity of her devoted cousin Ralph, she is free to make her own choice about her destiny. Yet in the intoxicating worlds of Paris, Florence, and Rome, her fond illusions of self-reliance are twisted by the machinations of her friends and apparent allies. What had seemed to be a vista of infinite promise steadily closes around her and becomes
instead a 'house of suffocation'.
Considered by many as one of the finest novels in the English language, this is Henry James's most poised achievement, written at the height of his fame in 1881. It is at once a dramatic Victorian tale of betrayal and a wholly modern psychological study of a woman caught in a web of relations she only comes to understand too late. This edition reproduces the revised New York Edition, with James's own Preface.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by
leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.Readership: Readers of classic fiction, students of Victorian literature, the history of the novel, American literature, Modernism, Henry James
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Henry James Edited by Roger Luckhurst, Professor of Literature, Birkbeck College, London
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