The Complete Novels of Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady + The Wings of the Dove + What Maisie Knew + The American + The Bostonian + The Ambassadors + Washington Square and more (Unabridged)

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Table of Contents:

Confidence

Roderick Hudson

The Ambassadors

The American

The Awkward Age

The Bostonians

The Europeans

The Golden Bowl

The Other House

The Outcry

The Portrait of a Lady

The Princess Casamassima

The Reverberator

The Sacred Fount

The Spoils of Poynton

The Tragic Muse

The Whole Family

The Wings of the Dove

Washington Square

Watch and Ward

What Maisie Knew

The Ivory Tower (Unfinished)

The Sense of the Past (Unfinished)

The Portrait of a Lady is one of James's most popular long novels, and is regarded by critics as one of his finest. The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who in "affronting her destiny", finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates.

"The Wings of the Dove" tells the story of Milly Theale, an American heiress stricken with a serious disease, and her effect on the people around her. Some of these people befriend Milly with honorable motives, while others are more self-interested.

"The American" is an uneasy combination of social comedy and melodrama concerning the adventures and misadventures of Christopher Newman, an essentially good-hearted but rather gauche American businessman on his first tour of Europe.

Henry James (18431916) was an American-British writer who spent most of his writing career in Britain. He is regarded as one of the key figures of 19th-century literary realism.

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