{"product_id":"9780141441276","title":"The Golden Bowl","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): James, Henry, Yeazell, Ruth Bernard \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 26\/06\/2008,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 656 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780141441276,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry James's highly charged study of adultery, jealousy and possession, The Golden Bowl is edited with an introduction and notes by Ruth Bernard Yeazell in Penguin Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMaggie Verver, a young American heiress, and her widowed father Adam, a billionaire collector of objets d'art, lead a life of wealth and refinement in London. They are both getting married: Maggie to Prince Amerigo, an impoverished Italian aristocrat, and Adam to the beautiful but penniless Charlotte Stant, a friend of his daughter. But both father and daughter are unaware that their new conquests share a secret - one for which all concerned must pay the price. Henry James's late, great work both continues and challenges his theme of confrontation between American innocence and European experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition of The Golden Bowl contains a chronology, suggested further reading, a glossary, notes and an introduction by Ruth Bernard Yeazall discussing James's original conception of the novel and later changes made to its structure and characters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHenry James (1843-1916) son of a prominent theologian, and brother to the philosopher William James, was one of the most celebrated novelists of the fin-de-siècle. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, biography and autobiography, and much travel writing, he wrote some twenty novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHis novella 'Daisy Miller' (1878) established him as a literary figure on both sides of the Atlantic, and his other novels in Penguin Classics include Washington Square (1880), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), What Maisie Knew (1897), The Awkward Age (1899), The Wings of the Dove (1902) and The Ambassadors (1903).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you enjoyed The Golden Bowl, you might like Theodor Fontaine's Effi Briest, also available in Penguin Classics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A wonderfully luminous drama'Gore Vidal'One of the greatest pieces of fiction ever written'A.N. Wilson\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697865916460,"sku":"9780141441276","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780141441276.jpg?v=1722604565","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.pro\/products\/9780141441276","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}