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The Wings of the Dove is a 1902 novel by Henry James. It tells the story of Milly Theale, an American heiress stricken with a serious disease, and her effect on the people around her. Some of these people befriend Milly with honourable motives, while others are more self-interested.
Set amid the splendor of London drawing rooms and gilded Venetian palazzos, The Wings of the Dove is the story of Milly Theale, a naïve, doomed American heiress, and a pair of lovers, Kate Croy and Merton Densher, who conspire to obtain her fortune.
The Wings of the Dove, novel by Henry James, published in 1902. It explores one of James’s favourite themes: the cultural clash between naive Americans and sophisticated, often decadent Europeans. The story is set in London and Venice.
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Jun 24, 2008 · As the dying Milly retreats within the carnival splendour of a Venetian palazzo, becoming the frail hub of a predatory circle of fortune-seekers, James unfolds a resonant, brooding tale of doomed passion, betrayal, human resilience and remorse.
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Aug 31, 2009 · Follow the authors. The Wings of the Dove (Oxford World's Classics) Paperback – August 31, 2009. Confronting a Bronzino portrait in an English country house, a young American heiress comes face to face with her own predicament. For Milly Theale, who seems to have the world before her and at her feet, is fatally ill.
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Aug 3, 2004 · Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time. Of the three late masterpieces that crown the extraordinary literary achievement of Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902) is at once the most personal and the most elemental.
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Nov 1, 2000 · The Wings of the Dove. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Neither Edith Wharton nor E. M. Forster admired it, but Louis Auchincloss calls The...
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Apr 1, 1999 · The Wings of the Dove. Of the three late masterpieces that crown the extraordinary literary achievement of Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902) is at once the most personal and the most...
Appears in 61 books from 1909-2008. Page xxiii - s notable that immediately after, at the first possible moment, we surrender again to our major convenience, as it happens to be at the time,...
Jul 19, 2009 · Project Gutenberg's The Wings of the Dove, Volume 1 of 2, by Henry James This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.
