The Golden Bowl
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Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Henry James's final completed masterpiece, The Golden Bowl stands as one of the most psychologically intricate novels in the English literary canon. Set in Edwardian England and written with James's characteristically dense and nuanced prose, it chronicles the lives of two couples — American heiress Maggie Verver and her Italian husband Prince Amerigo, and Maggie's widowed father Adam and his new wife Charlotte Stant — whose relationships are shadowed by a secret pre-marital affair. The novel uncovers the delicate power dynamics of wealth, marriage, loyalty, and betrayal through Maggie's slowly dawning awareness of the deception surrounding her. With remarkable psychological precision, James presents a world where surfaces of civility conceal depths of moral complexity, illustrating how love, possession, and self-knowledge ultimately collide. The Golden Bowl remains a towering achievement in literary realism and a defining work of the late Victorian and early Modernist era.
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription.
Henry James's final completed masterpiece, The Golden Bowl stands as one of the most psychologically intricate novels in the English literary canon. Set in Edwardian England and written with James's characteristically dense and nuanced prose, it chronicles the lives of two couples — American heiress Maggie Verver and her Italian husband Prince Amerigo, and Maggie's widowed father Adam and his new wife Charlotte Stant — whose relationships are shadowed by a secret pre-marital affair. The novel uncovers the delicate power dynamics of wealth, marriage, loyalty, and betrayal through Maggie's slowly dawning awareness of the deception surrounding her. With remarkable psychological precision, James presents a world where surfaces of civility conceal depths of moral complexity, illustrating how love, possession, and self-knowledge ultimately collide. The Golden Bowl remains a towering achievement in literary realism and a defining work of the late Victorian and early Modernist era.
