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The Golden Bowl

Author
Henry James
Series
World Classics
Language
English
Length
470 pages
ISBN
9781909676206
Published
15 August 2013
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Henry James
  • tragicomedy
  • relationship
  • marriage
  • melodrama
  • engagement
  • humour
  • comedy
  • dark comedy
  • stream of consciousness

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Description

Maggie Verver marries Prince Amerigo; her father Adam later marries Charlotte, Amerigo’s former lover. The cracked golden bowl stands for a marriage built on hidden knowledge. Not Charlotte as Amerigo’s wife. Jamesian intrigue of money, taste, and betrayal.

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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