{"product_id":"9781566196352","title":"The Portrait of a Lady","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"The Portrait of a Lady\" is the most stunning achievement of Henry James's early period--in the 1860s and '70s when he was transforming himself from a talented young American into a resident of Europe, a citizen of the world, and one of the greatest novelists of modern times. A kind of delight at the success of this transformation informs every page of this masterpiece. Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent, and headstrong American girl newly endowed with wealth and embarked in Europe on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge, is delineated with a magnificence that is at once casual and tense with force and insight. The characters with whom she is entangled--the good man and the evil one, between whom she wavers, and the mysterious witchlike woman with whom she must do battle--are each rendered with a virtuosity that suggests dazzling imaginative powers. And the scene painting--in England and Italy--provides a continuous visual pleasure while always remaining crucial to the larger drama.\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"James, Henry","offers":[{"title":"Hardback (Classics)","offer_id":44241274175712,"sku":"","price":13.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback (Classics)","offer_id":47142297960672,"sku":"","price":12.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/272.jpg?v=1697048064","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/9781566196352","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}