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The Golden Bowl
Written by Henry James
Narrated by Juliet Stevenson
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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Wealthy Maggie Verver has everything she could ever ask for - except for a husband, and a title. While in Italy, acquiring art for his museum back in the states, Maggie’s millionaire father Adam decides to remedy this and acquire a husband for Maggie. Enter Prince Amerigo, of a titled, but now poor, aristocratic Florentine family. Amerigo is the perfect candidate. Delighted, Maggie then reciprocates by choosing a partner for her widower father: childhood friend Charlotte Stant. The stage is set, and what unfolds is a deep and gripping exploration of fidelity and the politics of love and marriage. Published in 1904, The Golden Bowl displays Henry James at his finest: James weaves scene upon scene, set piece upon set piece, into a seamless whole, through a richly dense tapestry of beautiful, flowing prose. Along with The Ambassadors and The Wings of the Dove, it constitutes James’s final, and most rewarding, phase as a novelist.
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Henry James
Henry James (1843–1916) was an American writer, highly regarded as one of the key proponents of literary realism, as well as for his contributions to literary criticism. His writing centres on the clash and overlap between Europe and America, and The Portrait of a Lady is regarded as his most notable work.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Brilliant! Characters, the unfolding plot, the language and the unexpected conclusion. A great read!
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I feel like James came most fully into his calling in Wings of the Dove and The Golden Bowl. The Ambassadors somehow falls short...is, despite perhaps its author's closer identification with the protagonist's late "education," lacking in the finesse of symbolism, crafty, rather than simply cumbersome ambiguity, and thick as molasses double entendre, the which James simply invokes, in the Ambassadors' pages, to the effect of flirtatious splashes, whereas in the latter two novels, he swims a hearty breaststroke. Juliet Stevenson ranks as Venus in a pantheon of sacred readers, were the likes of George Guidall the mighty Zeus, Nick Sullivan a lithe Mercury, Simon Vance fair Apollo.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is the third Henry James novel I've completed. It is a good book, but tends to get cumbersome with to many unnecessary words at times. The narrator definitely kept me going til the end.