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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. She then finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond, who, beneath his veneer of charm and cultivation, is cruelty itself. A story of intense poignancy, Isabel's tale of love and betrayal still resonates with modern audiences.

The Portrait of a Lady is widely held to be the outstanding work of Henry James¿s ¿early¿ period, and among the finest novels of his entire career.When the eccentric Mrs. Touchett ¿takes up¿ her charming American niece, Isabel Archer, and returns with her to England, her husband and son, the invalid Ralph, are first mystified, then bemused. Soon, however, they are smitten, as also is their aristocratic neighbor, Lord Warburton. It is not long until a proposal of marriage comes from the English lord, but Isabel is not so quickly conquered. Besides, she has left a rejected suitor back in Boston, an archetypal American industrial magnate, Caspar Goodwood.Through a surprising bequest in Mr. Touchett¿s will, Isabel becomes a wealthy heiress. As she travels with her aunt through Europe, Isabel encounters several remarkable figures in the American émigré communities in which Mrs. Touchett has her social circles. She also is led towards a third suitor in Florence, and this encounter proves decisive.The novel took shape as James travelled on the Continent, after having lived in London for some years. That sense of place and displacement suffuses the book, but it remains the backdrop to the main business of the story: the unfolding of relationships around the figure of Isabel Archer. James explains in an illuminating preface how his heroine and her attendant characters took hold of him. His artistic vision was to display Isabel¿s character in action, embedded in this web of relations.The Portrait of a Lady is one of the supreme examples of James¿s capacity to display how moral imagination and concrete action emerge in character. But along with this, the novel explores the perception and persistence of love, dissects the psychological gradations between magnanimity and malice, and contrasts the energy and ambition of the new world with the allure and ennui of the old.This Standard Ebooks edition follows the New York edition, which incorporates the revisions James made to his text in 1908, almost thirty years after he first wrote it.

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Daisy Miller, by Henry James, published in 1878. Winterbourne and Daisy Miller, a beautiful American girl, fall in love with each other. His pursuit of her is hindered by her flirtatiousness, which is frowned upon by the other expatriates when they meet in Switzerland and Italy. James' "Daisy Miller" was a big success when it was published in 1878 and continues to be popular. Although some people criticized the story for being an "outrage on American Girlhood," Daisy Miller is one of James' most popular works, as well as The Turn of the Screw.

The smart and strong-willed Isabel Archer is brought to Europe by her well-off aunt Touchett toenter wedlock. Resolved to navigate her own destiny, she unabashedly turns down two eligible suitorswho offer their wealth and devotion to her. Amongst this, she finds herself irresistibly drawn to ahandsome, cruel charmer.Renowned as a masterpiece among James's early writings, this novel portrays the stark contrastbetween naivety and high spirits of the new world and deception and wisdom of the old. It alsoprofoundly counters the themes of individual liberty, duty, treachery and sexuality.

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Me confié a la señora Prest; lo cierto es que sin ella mis avances habrían sido muy escasos, pues la idea más provechosa salió de sus labios cordiales. Fue ella quien descubrió la fórmula y desató el nudo gordiano. Se supone que a las mujeres no les resulta fácil alcanzar una perspectiva libre y general de las cosas, de ningún asunto práctico; pero a veces improvisan con singular serenidad una idea audaz, una idea que a ningún hombre se le ocurriría. «Consiga que lo acepten como inquilino». Creo que jamás habría llegado a esta conclusión sin ayuda. Estaba dando palos de ciego; intentaba ser ingenioso, buscaba la combinación de artes que me permitiese entablar relación, cuando la señora Prest me sugirió felizmente que la manera de entablar relación pasaba por integrarme en su círculo más íntimo. Mi amiga no conocía mucho mejor que yo a las señoritas Bordereau; de hecho, llegué de Inglaterra con ciertos datos concluyentes que eran nuevos para ella. Las Bordereau se habían relacionado en el pasado, hacía de eso mucho tiempo, con uno de los grandes personajes del siglo, y vivían ahora recluidas en Venecia, muy modestamente, olvidadas, inalcanzables, en un recóndito y ruinoso palacio. Ésta era, en lo esencial, la impresión de la señora Prest. Ella, por su parte, llevaba alrededor de quince años en la ciudad, donde había realizado un montón de buenas obras; pero la esfera de su bondad nunca abarcó a las tímidas, misteriosas y, para algunos, poco respetables americanas ¿se presumía que en el curso de aquel largo exilio habían perdido su identidad nacional, a lo cual se sumaba un origen francés más remoto, tal como indicaba su apellido que ni pedían favores ni reclamaban atención.

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Ella era ciertamente una muchacha peculiar, y si al final él sintió que no la conocía ni la entendía, no es sorprendente que al comienzo pensara de igual forma. Al inicio, sin embargo, él experimentó lo que no percibió al final: que, una vez afianzada su relación gracias a las circunstancias, la peculiaridad de la joven se materializaba en un encanto al que era imposible oponerse o resistirse. Él tenía la extraña impresión (en ocasiones venía a ser una auténtica aflicción que, moralmente hablando, le sacudía los sentidos con la agudeza de una repentina punzada de neuralgia) de que sería mejor para ambos que interrumpieran su relación de inmediato y nunca se volvieran a ver. En años posteriores, él consideró este sentimiento como una premonición, y recordó dos o tres ocasiones en las que estuvo a punto de expresarlo a Georgina. Claro que nunca llegó a hacerlo; había múltiples buenas razones para ello. El amor feliz no está dispuesto a asumir deberes desagradables; y ni los serios presentimientos, ni la peculiaridad de su amada o la insufrible descortesía de sus padres impedían que el amor de Raymond Benyon fuera feliz. Georgina era una muchacha alta y rubia, de ojos bellos y fríos y una sonrisa cuya perfecta dulzura, proveniente de sus labios, rebosaba armonía. Tenía el cabello de color castaño rojizo, de un tono que podría calificarse como verdaderamente espléndido, y parecía moverse por la vida con una elegancia majestuosa, como habría caminado al son de un anticuado minueto. Los caballeros relacionados con la Marina tienen la ventaja de ver muchos tipos de mujeres; pueden comparar a las damas de Nueva York con las de Valparaíso, y a las de Halifax con las del Cabo de Buena Esperanza. Raymond Benyon había disfrutado de estas oportunidades y, siendo admirador de las mujeres, había aprendido su lección; se encontraba en una posición que le permitía apreciar las bellas cualidades de Georgina Gressie.

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