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Paperback. Pub Date :2012-09-27 Pages: 576 Language: English Publisher: Penguin PressClassics The Penguin English Library Edition of The Wings of the Dove by Henry James.She found herself. for the first moment. looking at the mysterious portrait through tears. Perhaps it was her tears that made it just then so strange and fair ... the face of a young woman. all splendidly drawn. down to the hands. and splendidly dressed ... And she was dead. dead. deadEmerging from the grit and stigma of poverty to a life of fairytale privilege under the wing of her aunt. the beautiful and financially ambitious Kate Croy is already romantically involved with promising journalist Merton Densher when they become acquainted with Milly Theale. a New York socialite of immense wealth . Learning of Millys mortal illness and passionate attraction to Densher. Kate sets the scene for a romantic betray...
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Henry James was born in 1843 in New York and died in London in 1916. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875). They include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl.
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- PublisherPenguin Classics
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0141199849
- ISBN 13 9780141199849
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages576
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