Author: Henry James
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Release Date: 1882
Book Size: 40.62 MB
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Category : American fiction
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The Portrait Of A Lady

by Henry James, The Portrait Of A Lady Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Portrait Of A Lady book, One of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, "affront her destiny." James began "The Portrait of a Lady" without a plot or subject, only the slim but provocative notion of a young woman taking control of her fate. The result is a richly imagined study of an American heiress who turns away her suitors in an effort to first establish--and then protect--her independence. But Isabel's pursuit of spiritual freedom collapses when she meets the captivating Gilbert Osmond. "James's formidable powers of observation, his stance as a kind of bachelor recorder of human doings in which he is not involved," writes Hortense Calisher, "make him a first-class documentarian, joining him to that great body of storytellers who amass what formal history cannot."

Author: Henry James
Publisher: Macmillan and Company
Release Date: 1883
Book Size: 27.47 MB
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Pages : 239
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The Portrait Of A Lady

by Henry James, The Portrait Of A Lady Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Portrait Of A Lady book, Isabel Archer is a young woman of daring independence and equally fierce desires. But her head-strong innocence is no match for the manipulations of her duplicitous friend Madame Merle and the devious Gilbert Osmond.

Author: Henry James
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date: 2021-03-19
Book Size: 31.22 MB
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Pages : 254
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The Portrait Of A Lady

by Henry James, The Portrait Of A Lady Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Portrait Of A Lady book, Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not-some people of course never do, -the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country-house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left was of the finest and rarest quality

Author: Henry James
Publisher: Golgotha Press
Release Date: 2013-11-19
Book Size: 77.75 MB
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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The Portrait Of A Lady Annotated Includes Essay And Biography

by Henry James, The Portrait Of A Lady Annotated Includes Essay And Biography Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Portrait Of A Lady Annotated Includes Essay And Biography book, The Portrait of a Lady is a novel about a privileged Victorian woman, Isabel Archer, and how her life evolves due to the choices she makes. Isabel is from a genteel family of Albany, New York who comes of age in the late 1860s. Independent and educated for her time, she had been raised by her father after the early death of her mother. Isabel is very bright and intimidates the young men around her; she has one serious suitor, Caspar Goodwood, a man with very good prospects, whom she spurns.

Author: Lyall Harris Powers
Publisher: Twayne Pub
Release Date: 1991
Book Size: 16.98 MB
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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The Portrait Of A Lady

by Lyall Harris Powers, The Portrait Of A Lady Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Portrait Of A Lady book, In The Portrait of a Lady: Maiden, Woman, and Herione Lyall H. Powers provides an explication of and a tribute to James's masterpiece.

Author: Dr. Claudine L. Maria-Julia Boros
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date: 2010-08-09
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Category : Psychology
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A Psychological Analysis Of Henry James The Portrait Of A Lady

by Dr. Claudine L. Maria-Julia Boros, A Psychological Analysis Of Henry James The Portrait Of A Lady Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download A Psychological Analysis Of Henry James The Portrait Of A Lady book, The author of over twenty novels, twelve plays, and one hundred and twelve short stories, Henry James (1843-1916) is the acknowledged "Father of the Psychological Novel." With his seminal masterpiece, The Portrait of A Lady (1881), he ushered in the birth of what was to be the emergence of psychological fiction. Although a steady progression of other great novels and works would follow this one, it is this work, therefore, that will be the focus of the present study.

Author: Sir William Golding
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
Release Date: 1987
Book Size: 24.47 MB
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 171
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Henry James S The Portrait Of A Lady

by Sir William Golding, Henry James S The Portrait Of A Lady Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Henry James S The Portrait Of A Lady book, Brings together the best criticism yet devoted to The Portrait of a Lady--analyzes James's high mode of comedy, explores the Portrait's relation to Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter, examines the thematic changes brought about by James's 1908 revision, and presents an acute and advanced rehetorical analysis of the novel's allegories.

Author: Kathrin Hüttlin
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Release Date: 2010-10
Book Size: 39.68 MB
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Pages : 52
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Relationships In Henry James Portrait Of A Lady

by Kathrin Hüttlin, Relationships In Henry James Portrait Of A Lady Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Relationships In Henry James Portrait Of A Lady book, Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,0, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, course: Hauptseminar "Henry James," language: English, abstract: In Henry James' realist novel The Portrait of a Lady not love but apparently the international theme is the main topic. The international theme mirrored in the portrait of Isabel Archer and her journey from America to England, to Europe. But if the reader has a closer look to the interpretation of the text, he will find out that James has made his work more complex. The international theme and love are strongly intertwined; both themes, in a way, influence each other. James has established several different relationships between men and women in his work. By close reading, the reader will discover that there is hardly a page in the book which is not filled with aspects of or allusions to romantic or interpersonal conversations or interactions between or about two potential lovers. According to Borchers, Henry James' attitude towards women and towards marriage itself reveals that we may not expect a modern novel about marriage (116). Because Henry James has already abolished the traditional style of matrimonial novel writing which originally ends with the engagement or the marriage of the heroine, Borchers names The Portrait of a Lady the predecessor of the modern novel about marriage matters (116). So, in the novel, not only aspects of traditional marriage structures but also problems and forms of how to avoid the bond of matrimony are discussed. In The Portrait of a Lady, there is hardly a chance for love between men and women to be lived, neither in legitimate relationships, in illegitimate relationships, nor in alternative relationships.

Author: Laura Jones
Publisher:
Release Date: 1997-01
Book Size: 70.52 MB
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The Portrait Of A Lady

by Laura Jones, The Portrait Of A Lady Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Portrait Of A Lady book, A screenplay of THE PORTRAIT OF A LADY, published to tie-in with the film version. Introduction by Jane Campion.

Author: Khushwant Singh
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date: 2009-01-01
Book Size: 64.43 MB
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Category : Short stories, Indic (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 469
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The Portrait Of A Lady

by Khushwant Singh, The Portrait Of A Lady Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Portrait Of A Lady book, 'A Khushwant Singh Short Story Is Not Flamboyant But Modest, Restrained, Well-Crafted&Perhaps His Greatest Gift As A Writer Is A Wonderful Particularity Of Description -London Magazine Khushwant Singh First Established His Reputation As A Writer Through The Short Story. His Stories-Wry, Poignant, Erotic And, Above All, Human-Bear Testimony To Khushwant Singh S Remarkable Range And His Ability To Create An Unforgettable World. Spanning Over Half A Century, This Volume Contains All The Short Stories Khushwant Singh Has Ever Written, Including The Delightfully Tongue-In-Cheek The Maharani Of Chootiapuram , Written In 2008. Khushwant S Stories Enthrall&[He Has]An Ability Akin To That Of Somerset Maugham&The Ability To Entertain Intelligently -India Today His Stories Are Better Than [Those Of] Any Indian Writing In English-Times Of India The Collected Short Stories Leaves The Reader In A Delightful, Inebriated Trance -Sunday Chronicle He Is Not An Ordinary Short Story Writer&[Collected Stories] Is Delightful Reading'-Hindustan Times

Author: Joseph Conrad
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Release Date: 2021-03-05
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The Portrait Of A Lady

by Joseph Conrad, The Portrait Of A Lady Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download The Portrait Of A Lady book, "The Portrait of a Lady" is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880-81 and then as a book in 1881. It is one of James's most popular 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, "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. Like many of James's novels, it is set in Europe, mostly England and Italy. Generally regarded as the masterpiece of James's early period, this novel reflects James's continuing interest in the differences between the New World and the Old, often to the detriment of the former. It also treats in a profound way the themes of personal freedom, responsibility, and betrayal. Isabel Archer, from Albany, New York, is invited by her maternal aunt, Lydia Touchett, to visit Lydia's rich husband, Daniel, at his estate near London, following the death of Isabel's father. There, Isabel meets her uncle, her friendly invalid cousin Ralph Touchett, and the Touchetts' robust neighbor, Lord Warburton. Isabel later declines Warburton's sudden proposal of marriage. She also rejects the hand of Caspar Goodwood, the charismatic son and heir of a wealthy Boston mill owner. Although Isabel is drawn to Caspar, her commitment to her independence precludes such a marriage, which she feels would demand the sacrifice of her freedom. The elder Touchett grows ill and, at the request of his son, Ralph, leaves much of his estate to Isabel upon his death. With her large legacy, Isabel travels the Continent and meets an American expatriate, Gilbert Osmond, in Florence. Although Isabel had previously rejected both Warburton and Goodwood, she accepts Osmond's proposal of marriage, unaware that it has been actively promoted by the accomplished but untrustworthy Madame Merle, another American expatriate, whom Isabel had met at the Touchetts' estate. Isabel and Osmond settle in Rome, but their marriage rapidly sours, owing to Osmond's overwhelming egotism and lack of genuine affection for his wife. Isabel grows fond of Pansy, Osmond's presumed daughter by his first marriage, and wants to grant her wish to marry Edward Rosier, a young art collector. The snobbish Osmond would prefer that Pansy accept the proposal of Warburton, who had previously proposed to Isabel. Isabel suspects, however, that Warburton may just be feigning interest in Pansy to get close to Isabel again, and the conflict creates even more strain within the unhappy marriage...

Author: Ruth Blumenthal
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Release Date: 1998
Book Size: 41.70 MB
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Category : Archer, Isabel (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Making Isabel Matter

by Ruth Blumenthal, Making Isabel Matter Books available in Docs, PDF, EPUB, Mobi, Textbook, Kindle Format. Download Making Isabel Matter book,