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The Portrait of a Lady is Henry James's classic novel featuring the strong and spirited Isabel Archer, the embodiment of women's independence and strength.

Henry James is one of the giants of American literary history. From the novella "Daisy Miller" and classic short stories such as "The Turn of the Screw" to the popular short novel Washington Square and intricately woven and highly complex later novels such as The Golden Bowl... Read Full Overview

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's...

This Norton Critical Edition includes:

- The New York Edition of the novel, accompanied by Michael Gorra's introduction and explanatory footnotes.
- Background and contextual materials centering on James as a writer, The Portrait of a Lady in revision, and reviews... Read Full Overview

The Portrait of a Lady is one of Henry James' most celebrated works, offering a profound exploration of a young woman's emotional and intellectual development. Isabel Archer, the novel's spirited heroine, finds herself caught between the allure of independence and the...

Regarded by many as Henry James's finest work, and a lucid tragedy exploring the distance between money and happiness, The Portrait of a Lady contains an introduction by Philip Horne in Penguin Classics. When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to... Read Full Overview

One of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, "affront her destiny." James began The Portrait of a Lady without a plot or subject, only the slim but provocative notion of a young woman... Read Full Overview

Henry James's classic tale of a young, independently minded woman from Albany, New York who unexpectedly comes into great wealth. The consequences of her choices trap her in increasingly conventional circumstances.

Henry James's great masterpiece, now in a stunning Penguin clothbound edition designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith.

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down... Read Full Overview

.0000000000In The Portrait of a Lady Henry James tells the story of one of his most enchanting heroines, Isabel Archer, a young New York woman whose life is changed when she is visited by her aunt Mrs Touchett following the death of her father (her mother having died long before)... Read Full Overview

Henry James and the Novel culls autobiographical excerpts from James's other writings--his Notebooks , the intentionally autobiographical A Small Boy and Others and Notes of a Son and Brother , and the travel books Italy Revisited , A Roman Holiday , and Roman Rides . Contemporary... Read Full Overview

Henry James's beloved masterpiece, now in a beautiful hardcover edition featuring James's groundbreaking essay "The Art of Fiction," with a foreword by acclaimed novelist Brandon Taylor