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Blurb: “The Portrait of a Lady - Henry James
"No other American and few Europeans can match [the] superb feminine creations of the chief American master of the art of fiction." Thus writes Oscar Cargill in his appreciation of The Portrait of a Lady, which many critics consider Henry James's supreme achievement.
The heroine of this novel is a young American, Isabel Archer. Blessed by nature and fortune, high-spirited and independent, she arrives in Europe to seek the full realization of her po-tential. In the cultured brilliance of international society, she enters a seemingly charmed existence. An English aristocrat and an aggressive American woo her; her sensitive, ironic cousin, the invalid Ralph, becomes her adoring adviser. But it is only after the ingenuous Isabel falls prey to and suffers from the machinations of a sophisticated and infinitely calculating older woman that she achieves final dimension as a woman and profound triumph as a human being.”