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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      11 April 2021
      12 May 2016
      ISBN:
      9780511782497
      9781107004009
      9781009655699
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511782497
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.53kg, 990 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.71kg, 1078 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature 1830-1900
      Collection:
      The Complete Fiction of Henry James
      Series:
      The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James (7)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, American Literature, American Studies, English Literature 1830-1900
    Collection:
    The Complete Fiction of Henry James
    Series:
    The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James (7)
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    The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James provides, for the first time, a scholarly edition of a major writer whose work continues to be read, quoted, adapted and studied. Widely considered James's first great work of fiction and highly innovative in its narrative techniques, The Portrait of a Lady follows the story of an ardent, idealistic American heroine, Isabel Archer, in a cosmopolitan Europe. It explores individual freedom amidst confining circumstance, romantic choice, and the consequences of disillusionment and betrayal. This edition, based on the most reliable of the work's first book appearances (Macmillan, 1882), provides an authoritative text of one of James's finest long novels, with extensive annotations, a detailed textual history and an analysis of the reasons for its long-held popular appeal. It will be of particular interest not only to James scholars, but also book historians and students of nineteenth-century Anglo-American literature and culture.

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    'It is extraordinary how little attention has been given to James’s texts, other than by James himself, and this is what the thirty-four volumes of CFHJ [The Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James] set out to correct.'

    Frances Wilson Source: The Times Literary Supplement

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