The Portrait of a Lady

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.Widely accepted as Henry James' great masterpiece, The Portrait of a Lady is a poignant and intense exploration of freedom and identity. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition features an introduction by Costa Award-winning author Colm Toibín.Intelligent, beautiful and vivacious, Isabel Archer fascinates and intimidates the elite society of Albany, New York. Fiercely protective of her independence, she travels to England with her aunt to escape a persistent suitor but, upon inheriting a considerable fortune, falls into the sway of the devious Mrs Merle who whisks her off to Italy. There she is seduced by the narcissistic Gilbert Osmond, an art collector who will stop at nothing to possess her, and whose connection to Mrs Merle is shrouded in mystery.

Product details

• Authors: Henry James
• Assisted by: Colm Toibin (Introduction), Colm Tóibín (Introduction)
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9781509850914
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-5091-4
• No. of pages: 608
• Dimensions: 102 mm x 160 mm x 35 mm
• Series: Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library; Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; England, New York, FICTION / Literary, Italy, c 1800 to c 1900, Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Western Continental Europe, c 1877 to c 1893 (‘The Gilded Age’ in the USA)