My dear, dear Isabel, I wish you well,But into a dang'rous trap you fell!What choice in husbands you have made,But you were played! Then prayed, and stayed.My dear, I pity your misfortune, really,But I think a divorce would be, ideally,How you'd deal with such a grave mistake,With all your heart and...
EXTREMELY LONG, but the material is great! Isabel Archer remains a wonderful woman of literature, and James' stream of consciousness technique is superb when used with Isabel.
I just wrote a lengthy review, and a swipe of my magic mouse deleted it. I'm not re-writing it. Not now, at least.But I did enjoy this book and I'm very glad to have read it, despite my protest during the process. It's not an easy book nor is it a happy one. But it's a good one.
Other thoughts/reviews:Books to the Ceiling: http://robertarood.wordpress.com/2012/10/28/the-portrait-of-a-lady-and-portrait-of-a-novel-henry-james-twice-over/
Beautiful Isabel Archer is an American woman who travels to Europe hoping to find adventure, excitement and live an unconventional life. She is pursued by many men for her beauty and charm, but she turns them all down wanting her life to be something bigger than settling for a typical marriage. Bu...
Henry James was a peripheral figure to me for a long, long time. I don't think I'd ever heard of him until AP English Literature in high school, and only then as a name mentioned in passing, a name too generic on the surface to capture my attention at the time. Later I picked up a copy of 'The Turn ...
When I approach a work written by Henry James, I know that I’m going to be reading something that’s very good and well written… something I’ll end up enjoying. But when it comes to writing about one of his stories, trying to organize all of those dense themes coherently on paper, that’s another matt...
Exquisite, cozy, at times funny, at times sad, and unforgettable. I won’t bore readers with another summary of the story; they’re abundant on this site. I will say that with Isabel Archer, James earns his place in the canon with a proto-feminist (yes, I said it, proto-feminist) novel of a remarkabl...
After her father dies, spirited American Isabel Archer is invited to 19th century England by her aunt. Read by Miriam Margolyes.I'm with Lauren on this:
A little depressing how the heroine falls in love with such a horrible man and is emotionally abused. Cried at the scene when the man who truly loves her dies in her arms. Very good book.
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