Henry James

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The Golden Bowl

Beschreibung

Maggie 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.

Autor

Henry James was born in 1843 in New York and died in London in 1916. In addition to many short stories, plays, books of criticism, autobiography and travel, he wrote some twenty novels, the first published being Roderick Hudson (1875). They include The Europeans, Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, The Tragic Muse, The Spoils of Poynton, The Awkward Age, The Wings of the Dove, The Ambassadors and The Golden Bowl.

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Produktdetails

• Penguin Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 71594
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 656
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 199mm x 130mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9780141441276
• ISBN-10: 0141441275
• Artikelnr.: 26029188