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When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors.
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I read The Portrait of a Lady 3 years ago and I still remember one sentence that I never tried to memorize in the first place: "His serenity was but the array of wild flowers niched in his ruin". So yes, the writing left a pretty big impression on me. I enjoyed Daisy Miller even more.
The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 and then as a book in 1881. It is one of James's most popular novels and is regarded by critics as one of his finest.
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First, nobody can tell you whether you should/shouldn't finish a book. Portrait of a Lady is a slow, methodical, subtle, ambiguous, enigmatic character study with a very deliberate style that, like most of James's work, is not to everyone's taste.
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The Portrait of a Lady, novel by Henry James, published in three volumes in 1881. The masterpiece of the first phase of James’s career, the novel is a study of Isabel Archer, a young American woman of great promise who travels to Europe and becomes a victim of her own provincialism.
A young American art collector who lives in Paris, Edward Rosier, comes to Rome and falls in love with Pansy; Pansy returns his feelings. But Osmond is insistent that Pansy should marry a nobleman, and he says that Rosier is neither rich nor highborn enough.
