The Golden Bowl (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

James, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141441275 ISBN 13: 9780141441276

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2009

Synopsis

Paperback. Pub Date :2009-06-25 Pages: 656 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Classics This story of the alliance between Italian aristocracy and American millionaires is a work unique among all [Jamess] novels: it is [his] only novel in which things come out right for his characters ... he had finally resolved the questions. curious and passionate. that had kept him at his desk on his inquiries into the process of living. He could now make his peace with America-and he could now collect and unify the work of a lifetime. -Leon Edel in The Life of Henry James. Maggie Verver. a young American heiress. and her widowed father Adam. lead a life of wealth and refinement in London. They are both getting married: Maggie to Prince Amerigo. an impoverished Italian aristocrat. and Adam to the beautiful but penniless Charlotte Stant. a friend of his daughter. But both father and daugh...

About this title

Review:

'One of the greatest pieces of fiction ever written' - A. N. Wilson 'A wonderfully luminous drama' - Gore Vidal

From the Back Cover:

'So that you think ... that I had better get married just in order to be as I was before?'

Maggie Verver, a young American heiress, and her widowed father Adam, a billionaire collector of objets d'art, lead a life of wealth and refinement in London. They are both getting married: Maggie to Prince Amerigo, an impoverished Italian aristocrat, and Adam to the beautiful but penniless Charlotte Stant, a friend of his daughter. But both father and daughter are unaware that their new conquests share a secret - one for which all concerned must pay the price. Henry James's late, great work is a highly charged study of adultery, jealousy and possession that both continues, and challenges, his theme of confrontation between American innocence and European experience.

This new edition contains an introduction by Ruth Bernard Yeazell discussing James's original conception of the novel and later changes made to its structure and characters, and a note on the text.

'One of the greatest pieces of fiction ever written' A. N. Wilson

'A wonderfully luminous drama' Gore Vidal

With a new introduction and notes by Ruth Bernard Yeazell

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0141441275
• ISBN 13: 9780141441276
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210
• Editor: Yeazell Ruth