The Golden Bowl - Oxford Worlds Classics
Henry James, Virginia Llewellyn Smith

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Publishers Synopsis

A rich American art-collector and his daughter Maggie buy in for themselves and to their greater glory a beautiful young wife and a noble husband. They do not know that Charlotte and Prince Amerigo were formerly lovers, nor that on the eve of the Princes marriage they had discovered, in a Bloomsbury antique shop, a golden bowl with a secret flaw. When the golden bowl is broken, Maggie must leave the security of her childhood and try to reassemble the pieces of her shattered happiness. In this, the last of his three great poetic masterpieces, James combined with a dazzling virtuosity elements of social comedy, of mystery, terror, and myth. The Golden Bowl is the most controversial, ambiguous, and sophisticated of Jamess novels.


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Book information

ISBN: 9780199538584
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Pub date: 29 Jan 2009
Edition: Reprint
DEWEY: 813.4
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 578
Weight: 440g
Height: 195mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 29mm