The Portrait of a LadyWith 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) |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 17 |
Section 3 | 31 |
Section 4 | 38 |
Section 5 | 54 |
Section 6 | 75 |
Section 7 | 118 |
Section 8 | 148 |
Section 17 | 293 |
Section 18 | 307 |
Section 19 | 323 |
Section 20 | 333 |
Section 21 | 343 |
Section 22 | 354 |
Section 23 | 361 |
Section 24 | 372 |
Section 9 | 154 |
Section 10 | 167 |
Section 11 | 194 |
Section 12 | 222 |
Section 13 | 233 |
Section 14 | 264 |
Section 15 | 271 |
Section 16 | 287 |
Section 25 | 393 |
Section 26 | 446 |
Section 27 | 465 |
Section 28 | 474 |
Section 29 | 481 |
Section 30 | 501 |
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