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Wealthy Maggie Verver has everything she could ever ask for - except 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’ final and most rewarding phase as a novelist.

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Public Domain (P)2018 Naxos AudioBooks Classics Marriage
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Struggled with the verbosity and style, often having to repeat chapters to fully understand them. It'll be my last Henry James.

Difficult

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The story and the richness of the language. Enjoyed the text and the subtle way Henry James tells the story.

Fantastic text and great story

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Juliet Stevenson read this perfectly. She has a fine understanding of James and maintained her fresh perceptiveness throughout .

outstanding

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brilliant

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It takes a while to tune in to James's long, long convoluted sentences, which makes his books the best for bedtime listening. The psychological depth is stunning, but it's annoying that the recording seemed to fail towards the end, and kept going silent as though the sheer length of this book was too much for the technology.

wonderfully soporific

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