Portrait of a lady /
Henry James.
- [S.l.] : Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1997.
- 528 p. ; 20 cm.
- Wordsworth classics. .
- Wordsworth classics. .
Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Reading Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, but despite all her natural advantages she makes one disastrous error of judgement and the result is genuinely tragic.