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The vivacious Kate Croy finds herself torn between love and money, friendship and ambition; “the crown of Henry James’s achievement.” Now a critically acclaimed film.
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“Prunella Scales’s cultivated tones are well matched to the cadences of Jamesian language. In some of his scenes of satrirical observation her delivery of dialogue cleverly highlights a gentle but piercing wit.”
Herald 19/3/98
“”Listeners are likely to be drawn into the novel and rewarded for having chosen the aural route as opposed to the more arduous, printed path. James’s dense style is leavened when read aloud. This makes the descriptive passages more evocative and the dialogue more active and convincing.”
Observer 8/2/98
The vivacious Kate Croy seems to face a stark choice; to marry Merton Densher, the impoverished journalist she loves, and thereby break with her family, or to marry lovelessly but well and take up her rightful place in the society she loves.
'She made discoveries every day. She saw, as she had never seen before, how material things spoke to her. She saw, and she blushed to see, that she had a dire accessibility to pleasure from such sources.'
'She couldn't dream it away, nor walk it away, nor read it away, nor think it away...She couldn't have lost it if she had tried – that was what it was to be really rich...'
Despite that fabulous wealth, Milly Theale is as alone in the world as a fairytale princess.
London's drawing-room society having brought the two women together, the attractive Densher finds himself between them, his highly charged love affair with Kate taking an unexpected direction as Milly installs herself in a palazzo and their passions are played out in Venetian opulence.
Now a major film starring Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache and Alison Elliott.
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- PublisherHarperCollins
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0001053116
- ISBN 13 9780001053113
- BindingAudio Cassette
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Book Description Audio Book (Cassette). Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Read by Prunella Scales, 2 Cassettes, Cat# HCA: 468. The plastic case is intact. The artwork is complete. Both cassettes have been tested. Sent within 24 hours. Ref: B1161. Seller Inventory # JSB-B-1161
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