{"product_id":"the-portrait-of-a-lady-introduction-by-peter-washington-hardcover-3","title":"The Portrait of a Lady: Introduction by Peter Washington - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHenry James\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePeter Washington\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Portrait of a Lady is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece. Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Portrait Of A Lady (1881) is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period-- in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young America into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and on of greatest novelists of modern times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry James was born in 1843 in New York City. He traveled and studied extensively in New York, London, Paris and Geneva, and returned to the States in 1860, enrolling in Harvard Law School two years later. By 1865 he had begun to contribute reviews and short stories to periodicals in earnest. His first major piece of fiction, \"Watch and Ward,\" was serialized in \u003cb\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly\u003c\/b\u003e in 1870, and \u003cb\u003eRoderick Hudson\u003c\/b\u003e, his first major novel, was published in 1875. James spent the following decades abroad, first visiting Paris, where he met Ivan Turgenev, Emile Zola and Gustave Flaubert, then settling in London, where he lived for over twenty years and wrote several novels, including \u003cb\u003eWashington Square\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Portrait of a Lady\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Bostonians\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eThe Princess Casamassima\u003c\/b\u003e. In 1897 he moved to Lamb House in Rye, where he wrote his later novels, including \u003cb\u003eThe Awkward Age\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Wings of the Dove\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eThe Ambassadors\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eThe Golden Bowl\u003c\/b\u003e, and well as his popular ghost story, \"The Turn of the Screw.\" James became a British subject in 1915. Two unfinished novels, \u003cb\u003eThe Ivory Tower\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Sense of the Past\u003c\/b\u003e, were published as fragments after his death on February 28, 1916.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 672\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 8.3 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 26, 1991\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eQuiz Name:\u003c\/strong\u003e Portrait of a Lady\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e Upper Grades, 9-12\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9.6\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n                \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/strong\u003e 44\u003c\/div\u003e\n                \n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45820404924613,"sku":"9780679405627","price":38.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/44bY3Ez-yz9780679405627_310637f9-3f3c-4308-8c0c-5c007314232f.webp?v=1771075122","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/the-portrait-of-a-lady-introduction-by-peter-washington-hardcover-3","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}