Part of a series of Penguin Classics editions of Henry James's works, this edition contains a chronology, further reading, notes and an introduction by Philip Horne, exploring the sources in life and fiction from which James determined to make his Portrait.
Henry James was born in 1843 in Washington Place, New York, of
Scottish and Irish ancestry. In addition to many short stories,
plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel, he wrote some
twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875).
They include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a
Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse,
The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The
Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl.
Philip Horne is Professor of English at University College London.
“The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.”—Rebecca West
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