Collector"s Library Великолепное подарочное издание. Книга в суперобложке с трехсторонним золотым обрезом и ляссе. "The Portrait of a Lady" provides an excellent introduction to the subtle, refined, and complex world of Henry James. James delved deeper than any author before or since into the hidden worlds of his characters, in order to explore the toils and delights of their inner lives. In "The Portrait of a Lady", James tells the story of one of his most enchanting heroines, Isabel Archer, a young woman from New York State 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). Mrs Touchett, who is an expatriate American living in Florence, invites Isabel to accompany her back to Europe, where everyone she meets is fascinated by her beauty, her intelligence, and her vivacity. Mr Touchett, her uncle, makes generous provision for her in his will, but this turns out to have unexpected and undesired...