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Англо-американский прозаик Генри Джеймс (1843–1916) — признанный классик мировой литературы, мастер психологического анализа, блестящий стилист и новатор, автор более двадцати романов («Послы», «Крылья голубки», «Золотая чаша», «Европейцы» и др.); перу Джеймса принадлежит также более ста новелл и рассказов, пьесы, трехтомная автобиография, путевые и критические очерки. Родившись в Нью-Йорке, писатель провел большую часть жизни в Старом Свете, преимущественно в Англии, где и умер, приняв за год до смерти британское подданство. Усвоив уроки Бальзака, Готорна, Ибсена и Тургенева, Генри Джеймс и сам оказал заметное влияние на всю…

Молодая американка Изабелла Арчер по приглашению тетушки приезжает в Англию. Мисс Арчер хороша собой, обладает живым характером и в целом очаровательна. Ею движет желание увидеть мир, однако, не имея средств, Изабелла может довольствоваться лишь ролью компаньонки своей тетки. Внезапно свалившееся на нее состояние позволяет ей претворить мечты в реальность, однако, разбогатев, Изабелла рискует стать инструментом для достижения поставленных кем-то целей. Генри Джеймс (1843—1916), признанный классик американской литературы, заглядывает в таинственные глубины женской души и создает достоверный и поистине прекрасный портрет, попутно отвечая на…

Генри Джеймс (1843—1916) написал 20 романов. Среди них самым любимым у читателей стал «Женский портрет» — произведение, которому специалисты отводят первостепенное место не только в творчестве писателя, но и в развитии литературы. В англоязычном мире автор, при жизни считавшийся «писателем для писателей», в последние десятилетия широко переиздается, большинство его книг экранизированы, издана пятитомная биография, Генри Джеймс становится персонажем художественных произведений, в одном из них герой пишет по Джеймсу диссертацию. Первый признанный шедевр мастера (1881), «один из величайших романов, написанных на английском языке» (Ф. Р. Ливис,…

Intelligent, beautiful and vivacious, Isabel Archer fascinates and intimidates the elite society of Albany, New York. Fiercely protective of her independence, she travels to England with her aunt to escape a persistent suitor but, upon inheriting a considerable fortune, falls into the sway of the devious Mrs Merle who whisks her off to Italy. There she is seduced by the narcissistic Gilbert Osmond, an art collector who will stop at nothing to possess her, and whose connection to Mrs Merle is shrouded in mystery. Widely accepted as Henry James' great masterpiece, The Portrait of a Lady is a poignant and intense exploration of freedom and…

Роман Генри Джеймса «Женский портрет» на английском языке, вошел в серию книг зарубежной классики. «Зарубежная классика — читай в оригинале» — коллекция, которая собрана из бессмертных произведений великих мастеров пера, написанных ими на их родном языке. Книги из этой серии помогут читателю углублённо изучать иностранные языки, обогатят его внутренний мир и по-новому откроют произведения известных классиков. Учись английскому у Генри Джеймса! Неадаптированное издание.

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy her freedom, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond. Charming and cultivated, Osmond sees Isabel as a rich prize waiting to be taken. In this portrait of a 'young woman affronting her destiny', Henry James created one of his most magnificent heroines, and a story of intense poignancy. This edition is based on the earliest published copy of the novel: this is the version that was read first and…

В книгу вошел роман Генри Джеймса (1843-1916) «Женский портрет» — вершина американского психологического реализма, одно из величайших произведений, написанных на английском языке. Закат XIX века - не самое подходящее время для искренней любви, но идеальное для браков по расчету. Главная героиня романа классика американской литературы, свободолюбивая Изабелла шокирует свет отказом от заманчивого замужества. Влекомая любопытством и желанием поступить наперекор давящей на нее семье, она соглашается выйти замуж за загадочного господина, оказавшегося эгоистичным деспотом. Изабелле придется многое преодолеть, чтобы, порвав узы семьи, вырваться…

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy her freedom, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond. Charming and cultivated, Osmond sees Isabel as a rich prize waiting to be taken. In this portrait of a 'young woman affronting her destiny', Henry James created one of his most magnificent heroines, and a story of intense poignancy.

Money’s a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.’ Isabel Archer is a beautiful, intelligent and independent young woman. Brought from America to England by her wealthy Aunt who seeks to further her education and find her niece a husband, Isabel is determined to shape her own future – one that does not necessarily entail becoming a wife. Isabel inherits a fortune when her rich uncle dies and feels even more inclined to turn down two eligible suitors on the basis that she is a woman of her own means. However, a trip to Italy heralds her downfall when she meets the charming Gilbert Osmond, a worthless, yet ambitious and…

Regarded by many as Henry James’s finest work, and a lucid tragedy exploring the distance between money and happiness, The Portrait of a Lady contains an introduction by Philip Horne in Penguin Classics. When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. Then she finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond. Charming and cultivated, Osmond sees Isabel as a rich prize waiting to be taken.…

In The Portrait of a Lady Henry James tells the story of one of his most enchanting heroines, Isabel Archer, a young New York woman whose life is changed when she is visited by her aunt Mrs Touchett following the death of her father (her mother having died long before). Isabel is invited to accompany her aunt back to Europe, and fascinates everyone with her beauty, intelligence and vivacity. When she inherits money from her uncle this turns out to have unexpected and undesired consequences.

'One ought to choose something very deliberately, and be faithful to that.' Isabel Archer is a young, intelligent, and spirited American girl, determined to relish her first experience of Europe. She rejects two eligible suitors in her fervent commitment to liberty and independence, declaring that she will never marry. Thanks to the generosity of her devoted cousin Ralph, she is free to make her own choice about her destiny. Yet in the intoxicating worlds of Paris, Florence, and Rome, her fond illusions of self-reliance are twisted by the machinations of her friends and apparent allies. What had seemed to be a vista of infinite promise…

Isabel Archer's main aim in life is to protect her independence. She is not interested in settling down and compromising her freedom for the sake of marriage. However, on a trip around Europe with her aunt, she finds herself captivated by the charming Gilbert Osmond, who is very interested in the idea of adding Isabel to his collection of beautiful artworks...

The heroine of this powerful novel, often considered James’s greatest work, is the spirited young American Isabel Archer. Blessed by nature and fortune, she journeys to Europe to seek the full realization of her potential—or in modern terms, “to find herself”—but what awaits her there may prove to be her undoing. During her journey, wooers vie for her attentions, including an English aristocrat, a perfect American gentleman, and a sensitive expatriate. But it is only after the ingenue falls prey to the schemes of an infinitely sophisticated older woman that her life takes on its true form. With its brilliant interplay of tensions and…

Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, but despite all her natural advantages she makes one disastrous error of judgement and the result is genuinely tragic. Her tale, told with James' inimitable poise, is of the widest relevance.

The Portrait of a Lady provides an excellent introduction to the subtle, refined, and complex world of Henry James. Unlike any author before or since, James delved deeper into the hidden worlds of his characters, in order to explore the toils and delights of their inner lives. In The Portrait of a Lady, James tells the story of one of his most enchanting heroines, Isabel Archer, a young woman from New York State whose life is changed when she is visited by her aunt, Mrs. Touchett, following the death of her father (her mother having died long before). Mrs. Touchett, who is an expatriate American living in Florence, invites Isabel to…

One of the great heroines of American literature, Isabel Archer, journeys to Europe in order to, as Henry James writes in his 1908 Preface, “affront her destiny.” James began The Portrait of a Lady without a plot or subject, only the slim but provocative notion of a young woman taking control of her fate. The result is a richly imagined study of an American heiress who turns away her suitors in an effort to first establish—and then protect—her independence. But Isabel’s pursuit of spiritual freedom collapses when she meets the captivating Gilbert Osmond. “James’s formidable powers of observation, his stance as a kind of bachelor recorder of…

Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, but despite all her natural advantages she makes one disastrous error of judgement and the result is genuinely tragic.

When Isabel Archer, a young American with looks, wit, and imagination, arrives in Europe, she sees the world as "a place of brightness," full of possibility. Rejecting suitors who offer her wealth and devotion, she follows her own path and finds it leads to a dark and constricted future. The Portrait of a Lady is the masterpiece of James's middle period, and Isabel is his most engaging central character. This edition provides a new introduction and notes, and includes Henry James's own Preface.

Transplanted to Europe from her native America, Isabel Archer has candour, beauty, intelligence, an independent spirit and a marked enthusiasm for life. An unexpected inheritance apparently gives her freedom, but despite all her natural advantages she makes one disastrous error of judgement and the result is genuinely tragic.

Isabel Archer has been brought to England from Albany, New York, by her Aunt Touchett to extend her education, possibly to marry well. Isabel, proud and independent, has other ideas. She has no desire to marry and wishes to create her own future, rather than finding it as a wife. Consequently she refuses two very eligible suitors: Lord Warburton and Caspar Goodwood, who has followed her to Europe from America. When her uncle Lord Touchett dies, leaving Isabel a fortune, he unwittingly does her a great disservice, for on a visit to Italy she is introduced by Madame Merle to Gilbert Osmond. Osmond is a charming but worthless dilettante…

The text of this Second Edition of one of Henry James's most important novels is that of the New York Edition (1908). In a sense, there are two distinctly separate Portraits—the 1880-81 First Edition and the New York Edition, which James extensively revised. The editor has meticulously prepared a list of textual variants to facilitate comparative reading of the novel. Nina Baym, F. O. Matthiessen, and Anthony J. Mazzella provide differing interpretations of James's revision process. Henry James and the Novel culls autobiographical excerpts from James's other writings—his Notebooks, the intentionally autobiographical A Small Boy and…

Described by F. R. Leavis as one of the two most brilliant novels in the language, The Portrait of a Lady marks the evolution of Henry James from talented American writer to world-class novelist. The ‘lady’ of the title is Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent and headstrong American heiress embarked on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge amid the ravishingly rendered landscapes of England and Italy. But it is the characters she encounters who make the story so masterly: the good Lord Warburton and the evil Gilbert Osmond, between whom she hesitates, her candid American friends, and above all the witch-like Madame Merle with whom she…

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. The Portrait of…

Генри Джеймс - признанный классик американской литературы. Его книги широко издают и переводят на иностранные языки, творческое наследие усиленно изучают и исследуют. Ему воздают должное как романисту и теоретику романа, как автору рассказов и путевых очерков, критику и мемуаристу. «Женский портрет» – один из лучших романов Джеймса. Изабель, главная героиня повествования, познает прелести брака с никчемным человеком. Ее судьба – стечение роковых обстоятельств. Будучи бесприданницей и оказавшись в Европе, она отказывает вполне достойным претендентам на руку, а получив состояние, связывает жизнь с проходимцем Осмондом, женившимся на ней…

Capturing the grandeur of a gracious, splendid Europe of wealth and Old World sensibilities, this glorious, complex novel has become a touchstone for a great writer’s entire literary achievement. From the opening pages, when the high-spirited American girl Isabel Archer arrives at the English manor Gardencourt, James’s luminous, superbly crafted prose creates an atmosphere of intensity, expectation, and incomparable beauty. Isabel, who has been taken abroad by an eccentric aunt to fulfill her potential, attracts the passions of a British aristocrat and a brash American, as well as the secret adoration of her invalid cousin, Ralph…

Генри Джеймс — признанный классик американской литературы. Его книги широко издают и переводят на иностранные языки, творческое наследие усиленно изучают и исследуют. Ему воздают должное как романисту и теоретику романа, как автору рассказов и путевых очерков, критику и мемуаристу.

Генри Джеймс - признанный классик американской литературы. Его книги широко издают и переводят на иностранные языки, творческое наследие усиленно изучают и исследуют. Ему воздают должное как романисту и теоретику романа, как автору рассказов и путевых очерков, критику и мемуаристу. Издание содержит портрет автора и статьи Генри Джеймса, перевод , примечания и заключительная статья М.А.Шерешевской, перевод М.А.Шерешевской и Л.Е.Поляковой.

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American, is brought to Europe by her wealthy Aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. She then finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gilbert Osmond, who, beneath his veneer of charm and cultivation, is cruelty itself. A story of intense poignancy, Isabel's tale of love and betrayal still resonates with modern audiences.

When Isabel Archer, a beautiful, spirited American is brought to Europe by her wealthy aunt Touchett, it is expected that she will soon marry. But Isabel, resolved to enjoy the freedom that her fortune has opened up and to determine her own fate, does not hesitate to turn down two eligible suitors. It is only when she finds herself irresistibly drawn to the cultivated but worthless Gilbert Osmond that she discovers that wealth is a two-edged sword and that there is a price to be paid for independence.

Described by F. R. Leavis as one of the two most brilliant novels in the language, The Portrait of a Lady marks the evolution of Henry James from talented American writer to world-class novelist. The ‘lady’ of the title is Isabel Archer, a beautiful, intelligent and headstrong American heiress embarked on a treacherous journey to self-knowledge amid the ravishingly rendered landscapes of England and Italy. But it is the characters she encounters who make the story so masterly: the good Lord Warburton and the evil Gilbert Osmond, between whom she hesitates, her candid American friends, and above all the witch-like Madame Merle with whom she…

Молодая американка Изабелла Арчер по приглашению тетушки приезжает в Англию. Мисс Арчер хороша собой, обладает живым характером и в целом очаровательна. Ею движет желание увидеть мир, однако, не имея средств, Изабелла может довольствоваться лишь ролью компаньонки своей тетки. Внезап но свалившееся на нее состояние позволяет ей претворить мечты в реальность, однако, разбогатев, Изабелла рискует стать инструментом для достижения поставленных кем-то целей.

Изабель, главная героиня повествования, познаёт прелести брака с никчемным человеком. Её судьба – стечение роковых обстоятельств. Будучи бесприданницей и оказавшись в Европе, она отказывает вполне достойным претендентам на руку, а получив состояние, связывает жизнь с проходимцем Осмондом, женившимся на ней только для того, чтобы обеспечить внебрачной дочери Пэнси, рождённой от куртизанки, приличное существование. Иллюзии рушатся, надежды на счастье никакой, но Изабель со стоическим мужеством переносит все выпавшие на её долю беды.

Из трех сестер Арчер старшая отличалась практичным умом, средняя — красотой, а младшая, Изабелла,— богатством души. Как и многие другие героини Джеймса, И.А. является воплощением «духовного американизма» — упрямой тяги к независимости, стремления самостоятельно выковать свое счастье. Осиротевшая И.А. едет в Англию к родственникам, надеясь обрести на «старой родине» глубокое знание жизни, увидеть великие памятники европейской культуры. Благодаря живому уму, искренности и красноречию, она завоевывает множество поклонников. Однако И.А. готова вверить свою судьбу лишь человеку, чуждому социальных условностей и способному разделить ее стремление…

First published serially in “The Atlantic Monthly” between 1880 and 1881, Henry James’ “The Portrait of a Lady” is widely regarded as one of the author’s finest literary achievements. As is common with James’ work a contrast is drawn between the cultural and social differences between America and Europe through the portrayal of American expatriates in Europe. The titular lady in question is that of Isabel Archer, a spirited young American woman who inherits a large sum of money and subsequently falls prey to the machinations of individuals trying to gain control of her fortune. The fiercely independent Isabel is set upon fully enjoying her…

This carefully crafted ebook: «The Portrait of a Lady (The Unabridged Edition)» is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Portrait of a Lady is one of James's most popular long novels, and is regarded by critics as one of his finest. The Portrait of a Lady is the story of a spirited young American woman, Isabel Archer, who in «affronting her destiny», finds it overwhelming. She inherits a large amount of money and subsequently becomes the victim of Machiavellian scheming by two American expatriates. Like many of James's novels, it is set in Europe, mostly England and Italy. Generally regarded as the…

Este ebook presenta "Retrato de una dama" con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Retrato de una dama (The Portrait of a Lady) es una novela de Henry James, publicada originariamente de forma seriada durante los años 1880 y 1881, y como libro ese último año. La historia gira en torno a la joven y atractiva Isabel Archer, quien se ve obligada a trasladarse a Inglaterra desde su Estados Unidos natal. Una vez allí, establece distintas relaciones con otros americanos trasplantados, así como con la sociedad británica. La belleza y distinción de las que hace gala no pasan inadvertidas y son varios y de distinta laya los que la pretenden. Su elección…