The Wings of the Dove
Neither Edith Wharton nor E. M. Forster admired it, but Louis Auchincloss calls The Wings of the Dove 'perhaps the greatest of Henry James's novels.' Published in 1902, the novel represented something of a comeback for James, whose only 'bestseller,' Daisy Miller, had appeared more than two...
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Neither Edith Wharton nor E. M. Forster admired it, but Louis Auchincloss calls The Wings of the Dove 'perhaps the greatest of Henry James's novels.' Published in 1902, the novel represented something of a comeback for James, whose only 'bestseller,' Daisy Miller, had appeared more than two decades earlier.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780679455127 (0679455124)
Publish date: November 4th 1997
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Pages no: 508
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Classic Literature,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century
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