(Original, Unabridged Classic, Premium Hardbound Collector's Edition, Ideal for Gifting)
Henry James
"If one is strong, one loves the more strongly."
Isabel Archer is a young American woman of intelligence, independence, and passionate idealism who inherits a fortune and travels to Europe determined to live life on her own terms. She refuses three suitors, each of them genuinely worthy, convinced that marriage to any of them would constrain her freedom. Then she meets Gilbert Osmond — and the most consequential mistake of her life begins to unfold.
Published in 1881 and considered by many the finest American novel of the nineteenth century, The Portrait of a Lady is a profound meditation on freedom, choice, and the price of miscalculation. Henry James's portrait of Isabel is so complete and so compassionate that her ultimate situation — fully understood, freely chosen, and endured with dignity — becomes one of the most moving passages in all of literature.
This premium hardbound collector's edition with sprayed edges presents James's original, unabridged text — a seminal work for any serious literary collection.
