The Wings of the Dove

by James, Henry; Crick, Patricia

• ISBN13: 9780140432633
• ISBN10: 0140432639
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1986-06-03
• Publisher: Penguin Classics

Summary

Confronting a Bronzino portrait in an English country house, a young American heiress comes face to face with her own predicament. For Milly Theale, who seems to have the world before her and at her feet, is fatally ill. Eager for life, eager for love, she embarks on her European adventure, warming to the admiration of her new friends Kate Croy and Merton Densher. But Merton and Kate are secretly engaged, and come to see in this angel with a thumping bank account as a solution to their own problems. For the remarkable Kate, scheming, passionate, poetic, also wants to live...This edition of James's poignant and dramatic novel is based on the revised New York Edition. The cover pictures the Bronzino portrait which is the focus of the key scene in the book.

Table of Contents

The Wings of the Dove	p. i
Introduction	p. vii
Note on the Text	p. xxiv
Further Reading	p. xxv
Chronology of Henry James	p. xxviii
Preface	p. xxxi
	p. 1
	p. 33
	p. 73
	p. 103
	p. 147
	p. 217
	p. 287
	p. 339
	p. 385
	p. 441
Appendix	p. 511
Notes	p. 518
Selected Variant Readings	p. 527
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