num_pages: 741
description: Set amid the splendor of London drawing rooms and gilded Venetian palazzos, The Wings of the Dove 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, “The Wings of the Dove is a novel of intimacy. . . . [James] gives us passion, he gives us love in its terrible and enchanting forms.”
language: English
title: The Wings of the Dove
titlecomplete: The Wings of the Dove
characters: Maud Lowder, Milly Theale, Merton Densher, Kate Croy
genres: Classics, Italy, Fiction, Novels, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 16919
places: Venice, Italy, London, England, England
publisher: The Modern Library/Random House, Inc.