The Wings of the Dove (Classics) - Softcover

James, Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140432639 ISBN 13: 9780140432633

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1986

Synopsis

Beautiful Kate Croy may have been left penniless by her relatives, but her bold, ambitious nature ensures she will not succumb meekly to a life of poverty. If the financial circumstances of Merton Densher, the man she is passionately in love with, are not sufficient to secure her future, perhaps her cunning will. So when Milly Theale arrives in Europe from America, laden with wealth but also gravely ill, Kate sees an opportunity to exploit her vulnerability and devises a plan that will see her and Merton financially provided for. Her scheming is flawed though, for it fails to take into account the inconstancies of the human heart.

John Bayley's introduction examines the novel in the context of James's other late, great works.

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Review:

""The Wings of the Dove represents the pinnacle of James's prose."--Louis Auchincloss

""The Wings of the Dove" represents the pinnacle of James's prose."--Louis Auchincloss

"The Wings of the Dove represents the pinnacle of James's prose."--Louis Auchincloss

About the Author:

Born in 1843 in New York, Henry James was of Scottish and Irish ancestry. He attended schools in New York, London, Paris and Geneva before going to Law School at Harvard in 1862. He started writing short stories and reviews for American journals in 1875 and then went on to write some twenty highly popular and acclaimed novels, including The Portrait of a Lady and The Bostonians. He died in 1916.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0140432639
• ISBN 13: 9780140432633
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528
• Editor: Bayley John, Crick Patricia