num_pages: 755
description: Divided into three sections: An Authoritative Text, Henry James and The Novel and Criticism. The text in this Norton Critical Edition is one of James' most important novels is that of the NY Edition (1908) . It can be said though that there are two separate Portraits - the first edition of 1880-81, and the detailed revision that James made for the New York Edition. Readers of the Norton Critical Edition can read both versions, with the addition of the editor's detailed textual notes - one by a young successful author in his thirties, and the other by the master in his sixties. 755 pages
language: English
title: The Portrait of a Lady
titlecomplete: The Portrait of a Lady
characters: Gilbert Osmond, Lord Warburton, Edward Rosier, Pansy Osmond, Caspar Goodwood, Ralph Touchett, Isabel Archer, Henrietta Stackpole, Lydia Touchett, Madame Merle
genres: Literature, American, Classics, Novels, Classic Literature, Victorian, 19th Century, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 79303
places: Italy, England, Florence, Tuscany, Rome
publisher: Norton