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The Golden Bowl

Author
Henry James
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
20 hours 2 minutes
ISBN
9781802568226
Published
19 August 2025
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Henry James
  • tragicomedy
  • relationship
  • marriage
  • melodrama
  • engagement
  • humour
  • comedy
  • dark comedy
  • stream of consciousness

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Description

"The Golden Bowl" by Henry James delves into the intricacies of marriage and deception. The novel revolves around a complex web of relationships between two couples: American expatriates Adam Verver and his daughter Maggie, and the aristocratic Prince Amerigo and his wife Charlotte. Unbeknownst to Maggie, Amerigo and Charlotte once had a passionate affair. As the story unfolds, a golden bowl symbolizing their relationships becomes a metaphor for the secrets and compromises hidden within. Maggie, despite her innocence, gradually suspects her husband's past with Charlotte. The tensions escalate, leading to a collision of desires, betrayals, and emotional entanglements.

Author

Henry James (1843–1916) is among the supreme novelists in English — an American who made Europe his stage and consciousness his subject. In The Portrait of a Lady, The Ambassadors, and The Wings of the Dove he traced Americans abroad through drawing rooms, secrets, and moral choice with unmatched psychological precision. James wrote sentences that think: long, exacting, and alive to every shade of feeling between people.

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