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Henry James - Portrait of a Lady
In Florence Henry James woke up one morning in full possession of his characters, and ‘the conception of a certain young woman confronting her destiny’. This account of a beautiful American heiress beguiled by predatory Europeans is exquisite art. Graham Greene called it ‘ a triumph of architectural planning’. But you never feel the planning. That is great art. Based on James’s first love who died of tuberculosis, Isabel Archer is an exasperating and wholly loveable heroine. We endure her destruction with the terrible impotence of the informed observer. One of the greatest American novels ever written.
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