The Golden Bowl

<p>Henry James's highly charged study of adultery, jealousy and possession, <i>The Golden Bowl</i> is edited with an introduction and notes by Ruth Bernard Yeazell in Penguin Classics.<br><br>Maggie Verver, a young American heiress, and her widowed father Adam, a billionaire collector of objets d'art, lead a life of wealth and refinement in London. They are both getting married: Maggie to Prince Amerigo, an impoverished Italian aristocrat, and Adam to the beautiful but penniless Charlotte Stant, a friend of his daughter. But both father and daughter are unaware that their new conquests share a secret - one for which all concerned must pay the price. Henry James's late, great work both continues and challenges his theme of confrontation between American innocence and European experience.<br><br>This edition of <i>The Golden Bowl </i>contains a chronology, suggested further reading, a glossary, notes and an introduction by Ruth Bernard Yeazall discussing James's original conception of the novel and later changes made to its structure and characters.<br><br>Henry James (1843-1916) son of a prominent theologian, and brother to the philosopher William James, was one of the most celebrated novelists of the <i>fin-de-siècle</i>. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, biography and autobiography, and much travel writing, he wrote some twenty novels.<br>His novella 'Daisy Miller' (1878) established him as a literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic, and his other novels in Penguin Classics include <i>Washington Square</i> (1880), <i>The Portrait of a Lady</i> (1881), <i>What Maisie Knew</i> (1897), <i>The Awkward Age</i> (1899), <i>The Wings of the Dove </i>(1902) and <i>The Ambassadors</i> (1903).<br><br>If you enjoyed <i>The Golden Bowl</i>, you might like Theodor Fontaine's <i>Effi Briest</i>, also available in Penguin Classics.<br><br>'A wonderfully luminous drama'<br>Gore Vidal<br><br>'One of the greatest pieces of fiction ever written'<br>A.N. Wilson</p> <p>Henry James's highly charged study of adultery, jealousy and possession, <i>The Golden Bowl</i> is edited with an introduction and notes by Ruth Bernard Yeazell in Penguin Classics.<br><br>Maggie Verver, a young American heiress, and her widowed father Adam, a billionaire collector of objets d'art, lead a life of wealth and refinement in London. They are both getting married: Maggie to Prince Amerigo, an impoverished Italian aristocrat, and Adam to the beautiful but penniless Charlotte Stant, a friend of his daughter. But both father and daughter are unaware that their new conquests share a secret - one for which all concerned must pay the price. Henry James's late, great work both continues and challenges his theme of confrontation between American innocence and European experience.<br><br>This edition of <i>The Golden Bowl </i>contains a chronology, suggested further reading, a glossary, notes and an introduction by Ruth Bernard Yeazall discussing James's original conception of the novel and later changes made to its structure and characters.<br><br>Henry James (1843-1916) son of a prominent theologian, and brother to the philosopher William James, was one of the most celebrated novelists of the <i>fin-de-siècle</i>. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, biography and autobiography, and much travel writing, he wrote some twenty novels.<br>His novella 'Daisy Miller' (1878) established him as a literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic, and his other novels in Penguin Classics include <i>Washington Square</i> (1880), <i>The Portrait of a Lady</i> (1881), <i>What Maisie Knew</i> (1897), <i>The Awkward Age</i> (1899), <i>The Wings of the Dove </i>(1902) and <i>The Ambassadors</i> (1903).<br><br>If you enjoyed <i>The Golden Bowl</i>, you might like Theodor Fontaine's <i>Effi Briest</i>, also available in Penguin Classics.<br><br>'A wonderfully luminous drama'<br>Gore Vidal<br><br>'One of the greatest pieces of fiction ever written'<br>A.N. Wilson</p>