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Books : The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Popular Classics)
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The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Popular Classics) by: Henry James Childrens Toy Shop Price: £2.00 Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.4 EAN: 9780140622492 ISBN: 0140622497 Label: Penguin Classics Manufacturer: Penguin Classics Number Of Pages: 544 Publication Date: September 27, 2007 Publisher: Penguin Classics Studio: Penguin Classics Sales Rank: 16204 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Different editionsReaders should note that the green Penguin Pocket Classics edition (and the old budget Popular Classics one to which this is the successor) use the original 1881 edition of the novel. James subsequently revised his work for the 1908 New York edition, and this latter one is used by most current paperback versions including Penguin's full-price Classics edition, along with those of Vintage and Wordsworth and others. Among many changes the final paragraph of the novel is substantially longer and less abrupt in the 1908 version. Rating:  - Be careful what you ask for...Re-reading this novel again so closely after reading Trollope's Can You Forgive Her? I can't help being struck by the similarity between Isobel Archer and Alice Vavasour. Both characters have financial freedom but crave social and spiritual freedom. Alice has the common sense to realise just in time, that her dependable John Grey, despite giving the appearance of a conventional man keen on a quiet life within the confines of what society expects, is far more likely to allow the freedom Alice craves, after their marriage. Isabel Archer however, mistakes a bohemian lifestyle on offer with Osmond for the freedom she seeks. Her stubborness and to a certain extent, her inverted snobbery, prevent her from taking Lord Warburton seriously, ... Read More: Rating: - "The real offense was her having a mind of her own at all."When Isabel Archer, a bright and independent young American, makes her first trip to Europe in the company of her aunt, Mrs. Touchett, who lives outside of London in a 400-year-old estate, she discovers a totally different world, one which does not encourage her independent thinking or behavior and which is governed by rigid social codes. This contrast between American and European values, vividly dramatized here, is a consistent theme in James's novels, one based on his own experiences living in the US and England. In prose that is filled with rich observations about places, customs, and attitudes, James portrays Isabel's European coming-of-age, as she discovers that she must curb her intellect and independence if she is to fit into the social scheme ... Read More: Rating: - Did she jump or was she pushedJames is keen to bring to the readers attention that he wishes for Isabel to have unlimited freedom to be what she wants to be. The central theme of the novel is Isabels indecision over what she should do with her life she admitts to Osmond that she changes her mind every day as to what to she should do with her life. It as if she is a blue print needing to be stamped by another ,unlike Henrietta Stackpole, she is unable to take responsibility for her own actions. The reason that it hard for the reader to have sympathy with Isabels predictment in her miserable marriage to Osmond. Is that in some respects she finds it romantic to suffer in her opinion the quest for greater knowledge can only be gained by suffering. She longs for passion and ... Read More: |
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