Wings of the Dove

<b>Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time</b> <p/>Set amid the splendor of London drawing rooms and gilded Venetian palazzos <b>The Wings of the Dove</b> 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. In this witty tragedy of treachery self-deception and betrayal Henry James weaves together three ill-fated and wholly human destinies unexpectedly linked by desire greed and salvation. As Amy Bloom writes in her Introduction <b>The Wings of the Dove</b> is a novel of intimacy. . . . [James] gives us passion he gives us love in its terrible and enchanting forms.