The Portrait of a lady
By: Henry James
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780760702352
Subjects: Young women; Fiction; Americans; Social life and customs
Description: Independent American heiress Isabel Archer finds her social graces in Europe to be lacking, as she attempts coyness in a struggle to maintain her place in the European fold. Her friends and family want Isabel to be married, but she keeps holding off her suitors. When the tyrannical Gilbert Osmond crosses her path, she inexplicably and inevitably finds him intriguing.