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When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. It is only when she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the cultivated but worthless Gilbert Osmond that she discovers that wealth is a two-edged sword and that there is a price to be paid for independence. With its subtle delineation of American characters in a European setting, Portrait of a Lady is one of the most accomplished and popular of Henry James's early novels.
- Sales Rank: #250697 in eBooks
- Published on: 2003-01-30
- Released on: 2003-01-30
- Format: Kindle eBook
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“The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.”—Rebecca West
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"Excellent and responsible editing of a crucial text in American literature."--E.N. Feltskog, University of Wisconsin
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.
Stunning
By Annie Maus
It's embarrassing that I've reached a mature age without ever having read anything by Henry James. I'd always wanted to, but every time I started The Ambassadors or The Portrait of a Lady, I'd give up after a couple chapters. Recently I had a chunk of time and I decided to try again, with The Portrait of a Lady. What an incredible book! To read a 19th Century masterpiece is a very different experience from reading a lot of contemporary literary fiction: you're forced to read deeply. The pace is slow, the unveiling of plot is subtle. You sink into the book and you breathe the air and feel the life of Isabel Archer and Ralph Touchett, Lord Warburton �and Madam Merle, among the many. James writes exquisite sentences: I almost wished I could read with my eyes closed so that I could let his vision overtake me. � It was an unbelievably beautiful experience.�
Isabel Archer is truly one of literature's great heroines: I did not want to like her, but she is an irresistible force, and once you've been introduced, you'll never want to forget her or this book.�
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
The Portrait of a Lady
By -_Tim_-
_The Portrait of a Lady_ by Henry James follows idealistic, formidable Isabel Archer as she confronts and eventually accommodates herself to an imperfect world.
The book opens with an extended, and ingenious, characterization of Isabel and some other sympathetic characters. Much of this is accomplished in a kind of _House and Garden_ fashion. We are shown a distinguished English country house on a hill above the Thames:
"A long gabled front of red brick, with the complexion of which time and the weather had played all sorts of pictorial tricks, only, however, to improve and refine it, presented to the lawn its patches of ivy, its clustered chimneys, its windows smothered in creepers. The house had a name and a history . . ."
. . . and so do its noble occupants, a wealthy American expatriate and his son.
When their cousin Isabel arrives, she acquires merit in the reader's eyes by her appreciation of Gardencourt:
"Her uncle's house seemed a picture made real; no refinement of the agreeable was lost upon Isabel; the rich perfection of Gardencourt at once revealed a world and gratified a need. The large, low rooms, with brown ceilings and dusky corners, the deep embrasures and curious casements, the quiet light on dark, polished panels, the deep greenness outside, that seemed always peeping in, the sense of well-ordered privacy in the center of a `property' - a place where sounds were felicitously accidental, where the tread was muffled by the earth itself and in the thick mild air all friction dropped out of contact and all shrillness out of talk - these things were much to the taste of our young lady, whose taste played a considerable part in her emotions."
Later, Lord Warburton, a worthy English lord, acquires standing through Isabel's appreciation of his habitation, Lockleigh:
". . . as they saw it from the gardens, a stout, grey pile, of the softest, deepest, most weather-fretted hue, rising from a broad, still moat, it affected the young visitor as a castle in a legend."
James advances his characterizations through dialogue as well, but not, at least in the first part of the book, through action. His work in the first part of _The Portrait_ is like the work of Osmond, a character introduced later in the book, who executes a minute representation of an antique coin using watercolors: the representation is beautiful, it is "art," but there is no sense of movement or striving.
Isabel eventually inherits a fortune that makes her independent; she is courted by gallant gentlemen, and she encounters some less savory characters. This is a sad book: we don't want to see Isabel brought down to earth. I must say I was dissatisfied with the abrupt ending of the book that fails to resolve Isabel's situation. Even with this imperfection, this is a beautifully written novel.
The Penguin Classics edition of _The Portrait_ is worth the price, with lovely cover art by John Singer Sargent. It includes a useful introduction and plot summary by Geoffrey Moore (like almost all introductions to fiction, it is best appreciated after reading the book itself), a preface and notes by the author, endnotes, a chronology, and a bibliography.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
It's a good portrait
By Joseph M. Powers
I read this, my first H. James novel, on the recommendation of a friend while I was commencing a trip to Rome. It was an excellent choice. I must say I was not entirely on board in the early stages of the book, set in England. Marraige proposals were happening too fast for my taste. Nevertheless, I was pleasantly surprised by the witty repartee, which reminded me much of Wilde. The wit diminishes and the intensity increases on the continent, especially in its Roman locale, and it was here that I found myself much more interested. The book has a soul. Its characters are richly painted and became interesting--I enjoyed them all. The novel also has a beautifully symmetric construction. In its early stages I thought James was trying too hard to perfect his European literary colleagues; by the end, the novel stood on its own. So, despite some minor growing pains, I can recommend and will likely read another by HJ. Peter Washington's introduction in the Everyman edition (James' New York version) is an added benefit.
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